How do I manually move "iTunes" mp3 to iPhone?

richisgame wrote:

I can't drag and drop it to my iPhone from within iTunes.

Why not? If you have 'manually manage music' checked in iTunes, you should be able to.

Backing up to iCloud has no impact on it. I don't subscribe to iTunes match, but I wouldn't think it would interfere... Plug the phone in, and go to the Music tab in iTunes...

iPhone User Guide (For iOS 5.0 Software)

richisgame wrote:

The iPhone user guide doesn't have the answer.

Please read my first post which describes my problem clearly if you'd like to try and help.

I certainly do not want to try and help now.

Good luck.

I clicked on this thread, and I know the answer to your question, but this is not my day job, so I get to select who to help & who not to help. Jerks like you who insult fellow users deserve no assistance.

So figure it out yourself.

Hi wjosten,

I don't like the way richisgame treated you and others in this thread, either. The only reason I'm responding with a solution is because I was looking for a solution to essentially the same problem richisgame was asking for, and I found this thread. This page was the second link that came up in Google when I searched "iCloud music storage 64kbps" - so it's clear this topic is of interst to many people.

A little background on why this is important to me.: A substantial portion (more than 2,000 tracks) of my iTunes playlist is from spoken word CDs, which I encoded into 64kpbs mono to save space. It's not important for me to have them available in the cloud, but I sometimes want to listen to some of these tracks on the go with my iPod Touch. Nearly all of my music is encoded at 128kpbs or better, and most of it is available through iTunes Match - so I'm not very interested in iCloud storage anyway, at least not at this time.

After doing a little bit of experimenting, here's the solution I foun to get individual tracks onto my iPod Touch (which I'm sure will work for iPhones and iPads equally well).Just go to System Preferneces on the iOS device, select Music, and turn off iTunes Match. Click on your iOS device in iTunes and then click on Music, and you'll be able to add artists, albums, playlists, individual trakcs, etc. on your device again. (It might take a few moments for iTunes to allow you to select individual artists/albums/playlists, etc. after you've unselected iTunes Match on your device, so be patient). Select what you want, perform a sync, and you're done.

To turn iTunes Match back on, just go back to System Preferneces on your iOS device, click Music, and then turn on iTunes Match.

I understand your frustration with richisgame and others who act rudly while asking for help. All I'm saying is there's got to be a way to not reward undesirable behavior while still helping those who find these forums looking for help. I'm not sure what the solution is yet.

Well, now I feel like a dumba** - 🙂

I thought the solution I wrote above had worked, but now I see it hasn't.

If anyone has a working solution to put tracks that aren't on an iCloud/iTunes Match account on an iOS device that uses iCloud, I would be very interested in this.

In the meantime, I did ask Apple for a refund on my iTunes Match service after explaining to them that the solution didn't work for me, for the reasons stated above. They gave me a credit, which I'm very happy with. (I do have my iTunes library uploaded to Google Music, so if I need to listen to a track that's not on my iPhone, I just use the very elegant GoMusic app. Amazon offers a service that's more similar to Apple's that's also $25 a year and offers unlimited storage of music files, and it looks like a good contendor for this type of situation.)

Personally, I'd rather just use iTunes Match, but until Apple makes it possible to move some tracks over from iTunes that aren't compatible with iCloud, I'll have to hold off on it.

Thank you David. That was incredibly helpful.

Hilarious!! Funny that he thought that giving a 194 page document was helpful!