How to transfer music from IPOD to IPHONE

You CANNOT move music directly from the ipod to the iphone.

The music sync is one way - computer to ipod/iphone. The exception is itunes purchases. If the music on your ipod are itunes purchases, then you can transfer them from the ipod to your computer. Without syncing: File>Transfer Purchases

Once on your computer, you can sync them to iphone.

What do you mean? What is not clear?

The music sync is ONE WAY ONLY - computer to ipod. The music does NOT sync from ipod to computer. The ONY exception is itunes purchases.

The music should be on your computer or on your backup copy of your computer, as it had to come from there in the first place.

There may some third party programs ( not supported by Apple) that will pull music from an ipod. you can try one of these at your risk and expense.

Still not clear.

Are you trying to move music directly from one device to the other? This is what it seems like you are saying.

Are you trying to drag and drop from a device to the computer? You would have to use the transfer purchases command to transfer itunes purchases only from ipod/iphone to computer.

I must be misunderstanding.

bioya1 wrote:
No purchases.

I have two devices with music and I want one device to have it all. I don't care if its a direct or indirect way of doing it. I just want to do it.

Hi: Is all your music not already in your iTunes? If so, simply sync it to the device of your choice.

Stedman

bioya1 wrote:
No purchases.

I have two devices with music and I want one device to have it all. I don't care if its a direct or indirect way of doing it. I just want to do it.

I do not see a way to do this. It is not clear nor intuitive. Both devices are Apple devices and Itunes is Apple. Why is this not an easy thing to do?

If it is on your computer, in itunes, then it can be synced to your devices.

Open itunes, plug in a device, select whatever you like to sync, sync, eject/unplug device

do the same with the other device.

Forget about the iPod.

Is all the music you want to sync with your iPhone on your computer?

If it is not, you'll have to use third party software to transfer the songs on your iPod to your computer. Then you can sync all the songs to your iPhone.

This "old" iPod Nano is yours? If so, the music that is currently on the iPod was transferred to the iPod from where - from your iTunes library and iTunes account on another computer that you no longer have access to, or from someone else's computer and iTunes library/iTunes account?

If transferred from your iTunes library and iTunes account on another computer that you no longer have access to, did you transfer the iTunes library from that computer to the computer you are using now along with all other important data? Do you have only one iTunes account?

How does it seem that iTunes wants a new iTunes account for the iPod? If it is your iPod and the music on the iPod was transferred to the iPod from your iTunes library and iTunes account on another computer and you have registered the computer you are using now with the same iTunes account with iTunes, there should be no problem. There will be a problem if this iPod Nano is not yours originally and the music that was transferred to the iPod was transferred from someone else's iTunes library and iTunes account.

There is no device limit for the number of iPods, iPads, and iPhones that can be synced with the same iTunes library and iTunes account on the same computer. If you have an iPod and an iPhone as I have, all iTunes content on the iPod and iPhone should be in your iTunes library on your computer. I have an iPod with video, a no longer activated iPhone 3G used as an iPod Touch, and an iPhone 4. All iTunes content on each device is in my iTunes library on my computer.

You're welcome.

Unless some of the music on the iPod that was acquired from the iTunes libraries of other family members was purchased from the iTunes store with another iTunes account, there should be no prompt to authorize the computer with the iTunes account that was used to purchase the songs.

Since some of the music on the iPod was acquired from different iTunes libraries on different computers, this means disc mode and manually manage music and videos was/is enabled for the iPod, which is the only way to transfer iTunes content from different iTunes libraries on different computers to an iPod. Since this music was manually transferred to the iPod, you must manually transfer the music from the iPod to her iTunes library.

This cannot be done by syncing. The term sync is used, but iTunes content such as music is not kept synchronized. iTunes content is transferred. In order to have the same iTunes content on an iPod and iPhone, the iTunes content must be in your iTunes library - the iTunes library used to sync with both devices. Since some of the music on the iPod was acquired elsewhere, it must be in the same iTunes library used to sync the iPhone with if you want the same music that is on the iPod on the iPhone.

The primary reason this is not easier is due to the record labels not wanting to make it easy to steal music.