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aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 5:42 pm

Just got an iPhone

seems nice but I just want to transfer some music files across - how do you do that without making a bloody playlist and how do you just add/remove an album or song at a time if you want?

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:33 pm

alas you don't - but i'd be happy to be proved wrong

you can sync your entire library with the phone - and it can do that automatically when connnected. But that deos mean your library needs to be small !

otherwise it's syncing up playlists

speccyteccy · Post by **speccyteccy** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:20 pm

The way I did it was to import my entire collection into iTunes the use the "sync only checked songs and videos" option in iTunes

I've also been using other software to rip, add tags or album art and organise my mp3's, but noticed the changes weren't being picked up in iTunes. Yhis is where ITLU (iTunes library Updater) comes in handy:

http://itlu.ownz.ch/wordpress/

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:55 pm

OK but what about other types of file? How can I transfer across pdf's for example? Also does it have a built in pdf reader or do I need to buy one?

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:22 pm

aMUSEd wrote:OK but what about other types of file? How can I transfer across pdf's for example? Also does it have a built in pdf reader or do I need to buy one?

There are a few free file apps. I've got one called "Files Lite" which is ok ish, I'm sure there are better.
A commercial app called "Papers" which acts as a pdf librarian and viewer is supposed to be outstanding for that specific need.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:24 pm

How do you get them on it though? There isn't any file browser as such as far as I can see and it doesn't show as a drive in My Computer.

nuffink · Post by **nuffink** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:29 pm

aMUSEd wrote:How do you get them on it though? There isn't any file browser as such as far as I can see and it doesn't show as a drive in My Computer.

How Files Lite works is the iPhone app displays an ip address which you can associate with a folder in windows explorer and, I presume, Finder. Then it's just a matter of dragging and dropping to the folder. Wi-Fi does the rest.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:30 am

nuffink wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:How do you get them on it though? There isn't any file browser as such as far as I can see and it doesn't show as a drive in My Computer.
How Files Lite works is the iPhone app displays an ip address which you can associate with a folder in windows explorer and, I presume, Finder. Then it's just a matter of dragging and dropping to the folder. Wi-Fi does the rest.

Oh that's a bit naff - I have a physical usb connection and it wants to use wifi? I don't have wifi on my PC!!

ericj23 · Post by **ericj23** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:20 am

You can e-mail them to yourself. It's how I do it.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:43 pm

Lol - OK, I suppose if it comes to it I can put them on my Skydrive and browse to it but it's a bit ridiculous when I have a physical link to my PC by USB.

Polybius · Post by **Polybius** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:50 pm

So you can't just plomp some files on there? Heck i can do that with my $150 LG phone. Still envy the iPhone tough

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:03 am

nuffink wrote:
aMUSEd wrote:How do you get them on it though? There isn't any file browser as such as far as I can see and it doesn't show as a drive in My Computer.
How Files Lite works is the iPhone app displays an ip address which you can associate with a folder in windows explorer and, I presume, Finder. Then it's just a matter of dragging and dropping to the folder. Wi-Fi does the rest.

I've installed Files Lite now and it works a treat. I was concerned it wouldn't as my Desktop PC has WiFi disabled but it connects to the Wifi router via ethernet and that seems enough for it to work. All I wanted was to be able to take a few eBooks and pdfs where I go - it has a pretty good pdf renderer actually and can even read Powerpoints (minus the animations though).

I also found I can browse my Skydrive docs from Safari and it reads pdfs and Powerpoints just as well. I notice there's a load of third part developers hawking pdf readers for iPhone - as far as I can tell nothing like that is needed as the rendering seems to be built in and works in landscape and portrait modes.

aMUSEd · Post by **aMUSEd** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:03 pm

Any tips on making iTunes work the way I want? It doesn't seem to organise anything according to the proper file names and folders - instead it goes by tags and genres (which are irrelevant to me) so if I import a folder of mp3's with albums organised by sub folders it seems to not respect my organisation if something is tagged differently. I had a lot of my mp3's stripped of tags anyway as they are a nuisance - now I'm having to use them just to organise things which is a pain and the way it decides seems so un-transparent - I currently have an entire album of favourites by one particular band but one of them it refuses to put with the rest and has it in another "album" even though I have made sure it has the same band name, album name etc. Is there an alternative to iTunes that works with the iPhone but uses a more logical way of organising files?

.:illanoise:. · Post by **.:illanoise:.** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:06 pm

Just jailbreak it, and the filesystem is open.

djanthonyw · Post by **djanthonyw** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:07 pm

I use one of the payware apps called Air Sharing. Works excellent!

iPhone - tranferring files painlessly