Manually manage music on 2 different computers

I have a Macbook pro that I take when travelling or working, and an iMac at home. The iMac has a lot of music on it - it would use up too much disk space if I put it on the MacBook. I don't want to be carrying an addional hard drive to sync music, and I find it really irritating that I can't just add a song to my iphone when I'm away from my iMac.

I'm not entirely sure about why there's such outrage from some about Apple not allowing you to transfer music from multiple sources to your phone. Last I was aware of copyright law, there are limitations on sharing music files across multiple sources, basically you are allowed to have your music in 1 source, aside from the CD that it came from. Apple decided to follow the law and make sure that people weren't using their devices to break it, without any kind of exceptional effort. Unfortunately, that means that you are limited with the transfer of files back and forth between the device and multiple computers, as well as multiple Apple ID accounts with your one device. It's not as if Apple has any way of verifying that a hard drive is owned by a particular person that owns the CDs. I'm sure if copyright laws were appealed, iOS and iTunes would work way differently. Yeah, it would be more convenient if Apple would butt out and let us do whatever we want with the music that's on the computer, but they don't want to be a party to Piracy.. can't entirely fault them for that decision.

BWA85 wrote:

I'm not entirely sure about why there's such outrage from some about Apple not allowing you to transfer music from multiple sources to your phone.

Who do you think is outraged and what are they outraged about?

This is not a limitation by Apple. They do nothing to prevent using your music inTunes.

I have music from multiple sources in iTunes and it transfers just fine to iPhone, iPad, iPods.

NOT TRUE. I too used to manually manage my music from different computers on my iPhone.
Now I can't, and I'm very upset with that.-

OK, I will try that. Thank you.

You're welcome. 🙂

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