I just got an iPhone 5. I can manually control music from my personal laptop and put it on my iPhone. However I can't add it from my brother's lap top. When ever I try to click "manually manage" on his computer, it tells me to erase everything from my iPhone and sync his library. I did autherize hi computer. How do I add music from his computer with still keeping all of my current music?
iPhone 5, iOS 6.1.3
iPhone sync only with one computer, if you sync with another, you iPhone content will be replace with whatever is on the second computer.
If there's no DRM on the song , you can copy the songs to a USB stick/CD/Diskette and import it to your iTunes library and then you sync from there.
No, it will not allow me to do anything accept sync with another computer. I do not want to sync it with any computer.
You cannot. You can only use one music library on the iPhone at a time, even when manually managing music. You can share your two music libraries via Home sharing if they are on the same network. See this support document http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819 about Home Sharing.
You don't have to sync with any computer if you don't want to. If you want music, you can buy the music directly from iTunes.
This is why my next phone will not be an iPhone. It's my content let me use it on whatever device I want. If I buy albums on both my laptop and my tower so be it.
Who actually cares what phone you buy next?
Ha. Well you took time out of your busy day to comment.
But you CAN do this. Just copy the songs from one computer to the other, then import them into iTunes. Very easy to do.
Paul Whishaw1 wrote:
This is why my next phone will not be an iPhone.
Good. then that will keep us from having to deal with you not listening to the advice given to you that you came here for.
Copy the music to the other computer. Sync and move on. done.
Thanks AmishCake.
While I'd prefer to not have to do this I suppose it's the only way with my current set up.
Lots of hostile attention on this forum from people who claim to not care about what I do.
ok so let's say my laptop dies, which my iphone 5s is synched to, now i have to erase it to add music from my tower? LAME!!!
and yes, i can copy music from my tower, to a thumb drive or hard drive to my iphone. but sometimes i just don't want to have to deal with that bs. i should be able to add MY music from MY computers.
C'MON APPLE!!!!!
If you have any valuable data on computer, a smart user will do backups so even if your computer dies I don't see any problem except a slight delay. C'MON USER.
my laptop is backed up. it's my 64 gig phone and all the hours it took to fill it with music I don't care to relive. thanks for helping me solve this issue with your huge brain which seems to be filled with endless witty banter.
To add music from another computer you are not synced to all you have to do is create a new playlist within iTunes and rename that whatever you want.
Then open up your iPhone and go to the "On This iPhone" tab where in the bottom ribbon you will see "Autofill From:"
Select the playlist you just created and click Autofill and there you go!
Does this import the songs as a playlist, or just as the songs?
How to add music from a second computer to my iPhone 5
