I have a ton of music on my computer in Itunes. I'd like to put some of this music on my new Iphone 6s. How can I get the music from my old computer to my phone?
Any help would be appreciated!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2005 laptop
iOS9 on a mobile device requires iTunes 12.3 or higher which in turn requires a computer running OSX 10.8.5 or higher. System Update only checks for updates for the current system version you are running but that itself may be out of date. It may or may not be possible to upgrade your computer to the required system. Find your computer model on the http://www.everymac.com web site and near the bottom of the system specification section it will say what OS versions it is capable of running. If you cannot run a newer system you will not be able to sync this phone to your present computer. If it can run 10.8.5 or higher you can either buy a download code for OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion from Apple online, or you can try installing the free El Capitan OSX 10.11. El Capitan may run slower on older machines and require additional RAM purchase. Doing a big jump in system versions is also more likely to affect old software.
Snow leopard to el capitan, will it cause my macbook to be slow? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7412959
Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.S.A. - http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.K. - http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/D6377ZM/A/os-x-mountain-lion
Current OSX general upgrade information, including system requirements - http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
If you have any PPC generation software that has been running under OSX 10.6 it will not be supported under any later system versions.
What iTunes version are you currently running? If you are using a version capable of supporting iTunes Match you could subscribe to Match and sync music through iCloud.
iOS9 on a mobile device requires iTunes 12.3 or higher which in turn requires a computer running OSX 10.8.5 or higher. System Update only checks for updates for the current system version you are running but that itself may be out of date. It may or may not be possible to upgrade your computer to the required system. Find your computer model on the http://www.everymac.com web site and near the bottom of the system specification section it will say what OS versions it is capable of running. If you cannot run a newer system you will not be able to sync this phone to your present computer. If it can run 10.8.5 or higher you can either buy a download code for OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion from Apple online, or you can try installing the free El Capitan OSX 10.11. El Capitan may run slower on older machines and require additional RAM purchase. Doing a big jump in system versions is also more likely to affect old software.
Snow leopard to el capitan, will it cause my macbook to be slow? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7412959
Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.S.A. - http://www.apple.com/shop/product/D6377Z/A/os-x-mountain-lion
Mountain Lion 10.8 purchase link U.K. - http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/D6377ZM/A/os-x-mountain-lion
Current OSX general upgrade information, including system requirements - http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
If you have any PPC generation software that has been running under OSX 10.6 it will not be supported under any later system versions.
What iTunes version are you currently running? If you are using a version capable of supporting iTunes Match you could subscribe to Match and sync music through iCloud.
Thank you for the awesome info! Very helpful. I don't think it's worth making any updates to my Mac at this point. It's old and already runs pretty slow.
Thanks for the suggestions!
One other question....
I do have access to a newer computer at work with an up-to-date itunes. Is it possible to put all my music (from old mac/old itunes) on a thumbdrive and then login to itunes on my work mac.....then drag and drop the music into the library?
HELP! Old 2005 macbook / cannot download new itunes
