Using mp3 songs on iphone with Linux Laptop

given the nature of storage, this itunes limitation for getting media on my device is a ridiculous limitation to intentionally engineer into your product. please contact the person who thought this was a good idea, and tell him i said he is an a-hole. this is a ludicrous limitation. rdiculous. there can't be any good reason i should have to run itunes software to put my media on my device. absurd.

"go buy a cheap mp3 player"...

that is the most ridiculous suggestion i can imagine...he already spent $600 on the mp3 player he can't use because of some absurd limitations...

and "unsupported operating system"??? that is ridiculous. his OS is pretty similar to osX, given that they are both unixy operating systems. he is running the one OS other than osX one would think he could run itunes on, given that it'd likely be the least work to get a functional port for linux out of the existing osX code. this is ridiculous. you aren't even giving a technical explanation for why this can't be done.

it looks to me like a paying customer is being forced through ridiculous gyrations for no reason other than policy, which to me, indicates a pretty asinine policy.

have a nice day.

:-|

His OS isn't even remotely similar to OS X. Linux is NOT UNIX. In addition, Linux isn't even close to being a mainstream OS. The vast majority of major software vendors don't support it.

Why this can't be done is completely irrelevant. The fact is, there is no Linux version of iTunes. Linux is unsupported. That's all there is to it.

Debating Apple policy is prohibited by the Apple Support Communities Terms of Use.

osx comes from next, which comes from bsd unix. in adddition to filesystems and a million other things, the use the same user shells. same as solaris, and aix, and all the other unices. yes. they are very similar, especially in how the os bootstraps, and how it is presented to the user.

your statement about linux not being a mainstream OS is just absurd. linux dominates market share in server space and cloud. what "major" software companies dont support it? it is headed towards being the only game in town for oracle, and is supported by microsoft (released their own distro in 2015) (also putting the bash shell in windows if i am not mistaken)...i think you horribly understate how "mainsteam" linux is, and how much "mainstream" vendor support there is for it.

And I don't believe i have debated policy. I just pointed out that what you said was a bit thin on technical perspective, and that you just threw policy out there kind of like a hail-mary play. No debate. And if the only reason my device cannot do something basic is because of policy, yeah, i would wanna cover my *** with a ToS as well.

and a eula or tos that says we dont talk about fight club might make you right, but it is still a pretty limp explanation.

To be more specific OS X came from Darwin Unix but in the interim it has moved further and further away.

You are correct regarding servers but this doesn't help your argument since Apple does not make a server version of iTunes. And there are many companies that do not allow iTunes to be placed on office computers.

So this leaves you with personal (home) installations of Linux. What percentage of all all home computers would you guess are running Windows, macOS and Linux? Would Linux even reach 1%? So the person who made that decision would seem to be pretty wise.

As stated, install iTunes.

Add songs to iTunes.

Connect iPhone to computer and use iTunes to sync songs to computer.

See this -> Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iTunes on your computer using USB - Apple Support

So how to sync music now from iTunes (which completely destroyed ANY folder information) to the iphone?

Did you have any of the song info tagged in the song file itself (ID3 tags)?

iTunes stores songs in iTunes > iTunes Media > Music > Artist > Album folders.

Simplest way is to just use iTunes to manage everything and don't worry about where they are stored.

Very few consumers use Linux as their primary desktop/laptop OS, so few commercial developers bother to develop for it. It's consumer imprint is too small to make that cost effective to do. The vast majority of consumer-level software for Linux is open source or inexpensive shareware/donation-ware, since there is no consumer-level money to be made distributing Linux desktop software.

You're of course free to chose whichever operating system you wish, but don't be naive about the limitations that might impose. It's hardly worth paying programmers and maintaining a supported distribution for an OS that almost none of a large businesses millions of global clientele use. Add in the horrible mish-mash of multiple Linux distributions with subtle variation, the differences in desktop environments, window managers, etc, etc, and Linux Desktop Apps are actually a PITA to develop and distribute commercially.

I use Linux a lot (and terminal in OS X), but I don't use Linux desktop environments (well, other than in OS X, I suppose one could argue). They really are a huge PITA, IMO.

You can go on all you like. It won't make any of your arguments valid.

MP3 files? Sure, I have tons of them on my iPhone. Headphones? Nothing extra to buy. They're packaged in the box with the phone.

Browser issues? Nope. Not that I've run into. Certainly nothing more extreme than what I encounter every day using Chrome.

As for reminders, they work just fine. Maybe you should try troubleshooting your problems some time instead of ranting about them.

If you have iTunes on the computer, put the mp3 files into the library, and then select what you wish to sync to the phone. You do not need to use any of the apps that you list there. To listen to music on the phone you use the Music app. Syncing does not require the use of any app on the iPhone itself, just the use of iTunes on the computer.

nooffensivename wrote:

Counting all the extra equipment as well ?😉 But still, you just can't play mp3 files. You can do it on windows and Linux and Android. But iphone? Nada.

Want to plug in earphones? You need extra stuff

Navigate in the browser? Sometimes I am stuck on some page, not able to 'get back'...

Doing some reminders? Great. Just the reminders don't remind you. You have to remind yourself that you have reminders ...!!

I can go on...

1. Sure you can, I play mp3 and mp4 videos on my iPhone and iPad all the time, no problem.

2. I plug in and use the earphones that came with my iPhone - work nicely with my iPad too. Use others too, both cabled and BT, no problems (iPhone 7 comes with a lightening to mini-audio adapter too).

3. Rarely been an issue for me, and regardless, any browser, on any platform can occasionally get hung.

4. No idea what you're talking about. My calendar reminders work just fine.

If you prefer Android and it does things the way you want, why not just stick with Android?

nooffensivename wrote:

Yes! Wait why? Anyway, you have to come up with something, have the last word or so (I think every apple user thinks he is better than the rest of humanity, to show off ...)

Anyway, I have iTunes on my computer. What do I need on the iphone? There is "iTunes U", "iTunes Store", "iTunes Connect", "iTunes Remote"? So what actually to install that I can use to listen to music and which syncs with the iTunes on my computer...?

Umm... how about the "Music" app...? Have you even looked at it? It's built in. You don't need to install anything at all on the phone. If iTunes running on your Linux machine isn't recognizing your phone... well... not much we can do about that. Linux isn't supported. Never has been, probably never will be. Run Windows in a VM. See if that works better. If not, then you're going to have to get yourself a Windows PC or a Mac.

nooffensivename wrote:

Pay double the price for half the usage? Who is that stupid?

Not quite sure what this means but if choosing an iPhone is stupid, then the company you are working for is stupid.

and who's stupid enough to work for a stupid company?