Using iPhone as music player

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Using iPhone as music player

I am a longtime Apple user but just started using iPhone.

iPhone is not really the same as an iPod for playing music. I have a separate drive for my iTunes library of over 100k songs.

I have great difficulties loading and deleting music from iTunes on the iPhone.
It's always asking me to log-in to the iTunes store.
Songs appear on my iPhone iTunes that I did not load.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there any way to get the iPhone to behave more like an iPod? Is this why people jail-break their iPhones?

Thanks

iPhone 5c, iOS 8.3

Posted on Jun 5, 2015 11:06 AM

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Answer 1

jjkraw

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455 points

Jun 5, 2015 11:58 AM in response to Mr. Silly

The drill shouldn't be any different on the phone than the other devices. Are you using iTunes with the phone plugged in via USB to sync? Over WiFi? Cloud?

With 100k songs I assume you aren't trying to sync the entire lot. I would suggest starting out small (pick one album), note what seems weird, and report that in detail here. Be specific - we don't know what you might mean by "difficult".

Songs that you have purchased from the iTunes Store but have not been downloaded to the device will appear with a cloud icon next to them unless you go to Settings -> Music and turn off "Show All Music".

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