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transfer music from iphone to imac

I have bought a new imac and want now to transfer all my music from my iphone to my imac. how?

Posted on Jun 9, 2012 2:43 PM

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Posted on Aug 15, 2013 11:00 AM

Hi friend,You can transfer songs from iPhone to Mac in 2 ways.

1. Through bluetooth.

2. Through USB cable.+++ Steps to transfer songs from iPhone to mac:

. Connect the iPhone to mac using the USB cable.

3. Now go to the iTunes and in iTunes select the devices.

4. In devices select and tap the iPhone

5. Now go to the place where songs are stored in iPhone .

6. Now select the songs which you want to transfer.

7. After selecting press the transfer button.Wait until the songs transfer.After transfering disconnect the iPhone from Mac .Thank you..............


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Aug 15, 2013 11:00 AM in response to frederick328

Hi friend,You can transfer songs from iPhone to Mac in 2 ways.

1. Through bluetooth.

2. Through USB cable.+++ Steps to transfer songs from iPhone to mac:

. Connect the iPhone to mac using the USB cable.

3. Now go to the iTunes and in iTunes select the devices.

4. In devices select and tap the iPhone

5. Now go to the place where songs are stored in iPhone .

6. Now select the songs which you want to transfer.

7. After selecting press the transfer button.Wait until the songs transfer.After transfering disconnect the iPhone from Mac .Thank you..............


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Jun 9, 2012 5:28 PM in response to frederick328

If you still have access to your Old Computer Transfer your iTunes Library to the New Mac...


See Here for one way


iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer



Or...


Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..



Backup iTunes to an External Drive


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751



An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes.

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Aug 4, 2014 7:13 PM in response to AnaMusic

AnaMusic wrote:


If you still have access to your Old Computer Transfer your iTunes Library to the New Mac...


See Here for one way




Or...


Copy your ENTIRE iTunes FOLDER to an External Drive... and then from the External Drive to your New Computer..



Backup iTunes to an External Drive


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751



An Added Bonus is that you will have a Backup of iTunes.

There is something wrong with my iTunes, how can i do this without iTunes?



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Jul 15, 2015 9:08 PM in response to frederick328

I was having the same problem myself till I figured it out.

1.) With your iPhone plugged in, click on the iPhone button near the top right of iTunes next to iTunes Store.

2.) Click "On This iPhone"

3.) Click "Add To"

4.) Then you can transfer music to your phone from your albums, songs list, playlists, etc.

I wish that can indeed help you transfer music from iPhone to Mac successfully! 

If you have some mistake to get your music back, you can go to Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device 

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Jul 5, 2013 4:22 AM in response to frederick328

If you still have your old iTunes from the computer you were using before, you can back up from that iTunes, and then import into your new computer. You can back up to disk, that's what I've used a few times, it's easy to do, but it takes awhile.

You could also opt for the very easy but costly method of buying a program such as iPhone to Mac transfer. I bought it awhile back when my computer crashed but I still had all my music, playlists, ratings etc. on my iPod.


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Jul 9, 2013 12:31 PM in response to frederick328

Make sure you have logged into the store in iTunes on the new machine with the Apple ID you use with your devices.


Connect up each iDevice in turn but *do not* sync them yet.


Instead cancel any auto sync that it tries to do and then right click on the device in the iTunes sidebar (if you're on the latest iTunes, turn the sidebar back on for this (View > Show Sidebar), or command+option+s.


Then select "transfer purchases" and it will move all of your purchased apps and music from each device onto your iMac.


When it has done that, do the same right click action and select "back up".


Now each device has everything you bought from iTunes on the iMac. You just need to move across any manually ripped music from whatever machine you have it on (your old eMac?). Transfer this by hand over ethernet or via a USB stick or something.


Job done!


You don't have to pull all your store content back from the cloud, although it is convenient - USB is much more effective if you have a data cap to worry about!


Edit: you also don't have to use iCloud really - if you back up to the cloud it will store your phone settings and contacts, calendars etc, but not your music or apps, since those are already in the cloud. If you back up to the iMac then it can restore everything back just the way it was without having to pull data from the cloud.


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Jul 16, 2013 12:58 PM in response to frederick328

This is what I did and got my music back to iMac. I had the same problem today and had just updated Facebook app and then suddenly got spit out of mail app. Rebooted and lost all my songs. Did not have iCloud. My solution:


1. on iPhone settings Mail, Contacts, Calenders - iCloud - music set to off
2. on PC, downloaded and opened up iCloud panel.
3. signed in with my Apple ID.
4. chose to only upload Outlook music, calenders and tasks
5. wait till everything is on the cloud
6. on iPhone settings Mail, Contacts, Calenders - iCloud - contacts now set to on
7. set calenders to on
8, look in music and they are all there


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Jul 21, 2013 10:49 PM in response to frederick328

I'm not sure what to do when you have Windows Vista, but for Mac users, I just linked my iPhone to my macbook using my USB cable and was able to authorize my computer to receive downloaded files from the itunes store via icloud. You will be prompted through this process if you both of your devices are signed into icloud. I then had to download the songs on my computer in itunes via icloud.

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Jul 21, 2013 10:51 PM in response to frederick328

iTunes will sync the contacts back for you.

If you right-click in your iPhone in iTunes, there should be a "Transfer Purchases" option. That will copy anything you got from the iTunes Store from your iPhone back to your Mac.

You can buy a program called senuti to copy music you didnt buy from the iTunes Store back to your Mac.

iPhoto or Image Capture will pull any photos in your Camera Roll, but I dont know about getting pictures you synced back. Im sure theres an app for that. Just remember that iTunes downsized them before it copied them, so they wont be the same quality as orig.

Oh, and go spend 75 for an external hdd and setup Time Machinr to automatically back your Mac up so youre never in this spot again.

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Jul 21, 2013 10:55 PM in response to frederick328

Just sync your iphone to your computer and open iPhoto. Once it has detected, select the photos you need to import. When they have been imported into an album, you are able to drag them to any destination. Actually you can find more answer on Apple's support website.


If you don't wanna use iPhoto you get a photo backup program to transfer photos from iPhone to Mac. You can easily achive your goal with some simple steps using Vibosoft iPhone to Mac Transfer. Hope it will help

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May 22, 2014 12:24 PM in response to frederick328

If you still have your old iTunes from the computer you were using before, you can back up from that iTunes, and then import into your new computer. You can back up to disk, that's what I've used a few times, it's easy to do, but it takes awhile.

You could also opt for the very easy but costly method of buying a program such as *******. I bought it a while back when my computer crashed but I still had all my music, playlists, ratings etc. on my iPad.


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Oct 9, 2014 12:17 AM in response to ivonjohn

TouchCopy Mac & Windows (iPhone and iPod Touch compatible)


I found this software to be very helpful but quite slow. It did transfer all of the songs I have in my iPod classic to my MacBook Pro which. There the iTunes Library had become corrupted and most of the music files went missing or "misplaced". Recovering them manually would have been quite an enterprise. Now I have, besides this software, iTunes Match which is driving me up the wall because it launches every time I open iTunes. I hope it will stop doin it once it matches all of the 7K songs I transfered from my iPod.

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Jan 26, 2015 10:25 PM in response to frederick328

You can transfer music from iPhone to Mac by transferring purchases:


Connect your iPhone to the computer. Wait for its icon to appear in iTunes.

Go to File > Devices.

Choose Transfer Purchases from [device name].


Note: ​​This feature works only for content bought from the iTunes Store. Any items that you imported from audio CDs or received from other sources won't copy from your iPhone to the iTunes library.


Another instuction: http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Music-from-iPhone-to-PC

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Jun 4, 2015 7:32 AM in response to frederick328

I used iPhone to transfer music from iPhone to iMac. Once you connect your iPhone to the Mac, open iPhoto.To import all the photos from your camera, click the Import All button. To import only some photos, press the Command key while you click each photo you want to import, and then click the Import Selected button.After the import process is finished, click the Eject button or drag the iPhone’s icon to the iPhoto Trash in the Source list.

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Jul 14, 2015 1:41 AM in response to frederick328

it shouldn't be so tough or disappointing to backup/transfer music, videos from iPod or iPhone to the computer. But iTunes makes it. This was articles written in 2011, since that time, there have been many useful tools in the market like Copytrans, Sharepod, O2Tunes, all of them could transfer/backup songs/videos quickly.


Here is the example: http://www.amoyshare.com/o2tunes-for-win/

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