Music files FROM iPhone6 to iTunes on Windows PC:

Ok so... right click on "unknown song" and then go to "get info" and then go to file?

If that is correct, I'm looking at a .m4a file

(I can try to upload a picture if it is helpful)

Odd, I'm unable to take A picture of my PC and upload it here from my phone

So if I look at an 'unknown name' file, and right click & go to file, here is what i copy and pasted from "location"

C:\Users\Bradyn\Music\iTunes\Music\Heart\Dog And Butterfly\02 High Time (2).m4a

Clearly the folder data is correctly in place. I am currently using iExplorer, like, at this very moment. Transferring 18000 songs is a very time consuming task. It's been transferring since last night and only 5000 songs transferred so far.

I have also tried Touchcopy and syncios

I'm deleting my current progress & abandoning iExplorer for now. It just doesn't make sense. According to my PC I've transferred 60 gigs of music from my 128gig iDevice, but yet, only 5000 of 18000 songs. Also thousands of unknown songs on iTunes, I will delete iTunes, redownload and start transferring (again).

Do you think iFunbox is better for my situation?

I tried iFunbox & it, what can only be described as, bogged as I tried to interact with it. So I redownloaded Syncios & I'm currently copying everything from the iPod to a separate folder. I tinkered a little bit to see how iTunes would interact with the files once I start to import them. iTunes imported them very fast from the separate folder & what I saw before I stopped importing was a very good sign.

So with Syncios, currently 11000 out 18000 songs have been transferred to my computer since I posted that that was what I was going to do. That's about 5X faster than iExplorer, or even faster.

I will update how this all goes in the morning. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP

(and also for helping me feel like I'm not alone as I embark on this adventure)

Ok so, Syncios has copied everything from 128gig iPod to a new folder on my PC. I used iTunes to start importing from the folder & quite a few songs made it over to iTunes in albums with covers & proper labeling HOWEVER... A LOT more songs did not transfer with anything other than the track name, so again I'm left with a tremendous amount of (seemingly) useless files.

Also, during this process, the iPod that just last night contained 18,815 songs now contains 18,509 songs. So I've managed to lose 306 songs.... WHAT THE HECK !!

turingtest2 wrote:

Seems like iExplorer and TagFromFilename might have been a viable approach after all. 😕

tt2

iExplorer was doing the same thing, transferring with an ungodly amount of 'Unknown Artist' files.

Can TagfromFileName run as a batch file?

My iPhone6 still has 18,815 songs on it. I'm going to do the whole process again:

Delete iTunes, Delete all music that is currently transferred.

Redownload iTunes, Retransfer.

Crossfingers.

(reseasoning: at the moment the iTunes library is a sloppy mess)

Do you have a better idea?

Update... My friend in Phoenix sent me his iPod & I started transferring with iExplorer. At first iExplorer was transferring at break neck speeds... but after about 12 hours only 5000 songs had transferred to iTunes & only 50% of those were properly tagged.

I then tried iExplorer copy to folder on PC, which was much faster BUT, when I tried to copy over to iTunes or import to iTunes from the new folder, once again, the files were severely unlabeled. So then I tried iFunbox & the screen froze as it tried to read the library on the iPod. I gave up on that pretty quick, as I was frustrated.

Next I tried TouchCopy, which is actually what I am using right now. I was VERY doubtful to try Touchcopy again because when I tried to transfer from my iPhone Touchcopy froze,often, the last time I tried to use it. Nevertheless I tried it again. When I started "Copy To iTunes" I could literally see my music files coming in to iTunes & going in to their appropriate albums, one track at a time PERFECTLY.

Currently I've had my friends iPod hooked up to my computer for about 20 hours and about 14000 of 18000 songs have transferred PERFECTLY (so far). Songs are in their proper albums with covers. There are ZERO "unknown" files (so far), and, knock on wood, my hopes are high.

For whatever reason, Touchcopy transferred from iPod to iTunes better than the other programs in this particular situation.

- Bradyn