I-Tunes

[iloveglee]

Please can someone help me with I-tunes. I have an iphone, which I love, but I swear i hate itunes with a passion. If something could have been made to be as complicated as it possibly could be, this is it.

I have a new I-phone, my husband has my old one. We have two separate i tunes accounts. He has all our music on his phone, and I now want to have it on mine, but at the same time keep it on his. I should make it clear, this is not music we have bought from i-tunes, it's music we have loaded into I-tunes on our laptop. I don't have everything backed up to i-cloud, there is too much for the space I can get for free, and have no intention of paying apple any more money than i need to. It is, however, backed up onto our laptop.

When I connect my i-phone there is no music there, i am assuming this is because the new phone does not have the same account id. So I have connected the old phone and all the music suddenly appears. So I have backed it up to the laptop, and synced it, and all the music is still there. As soon as I disconnect it, everything disappears. All that is left is music that my grand-daughter has put on, using her own apple account. I have signed her out, and signed myself in, but nothing remains. i cannot understand what is happening and I hope that someone can explain. I have had i-tunes for many years now and have never quite managed to get to grips with it.

[Tuvok]

Connect your phone to the computer and sync the music onto the phone

[iloveglee]

The phone i want to have music on, doesn't have any. the phone with music doesn't have the full library as some has been deleted to make space. when trying to sync it, i keep getting a message about deleting and replacing so daren't do it incase i end up with the itunes library on the phone instead of my own limited one

[Tuvok]

Just to confirm

computer has all music in the itunes library

old phone has some music on it

new phone has no music


Do you each have a username on the computer or do you use the same username. If you have separate, then you will also have separate itunes libraries.

We have 1 username on the computer and I can use the same music on my ipads and another family members ipods.

The message about deleting and replacing implies that the phone has been connected to a different itunes library.

There is a feature called Family sharing - that might solver your problem.

[Tuvok]

Just re-read your post.

Try this

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/iphone/how-get-music-on-iphone-download-or-share-music-on-iphone-3612963/

or there is another way - what you could also do is copy the itunes media folder that has all the tunes in it - put it on the computer in a location that both computer user accounts can access. On the itunes account with the least music copy the files from the copied media folder into the Automatically add to itunes folder - itunes should then move the files into the itune library. Then you can sync them to itunes.

Any future tunes you want to add to itunes will then only go into whichever account is currently being used - so you'd need to do it for both accounts.

[iloveglee]

thanks for the information. i had already copied the itunes library but wasn't able to find it. in the end i did find it, but cannot now remember how! We do in fact have two apple accounts, but i thought we only had one i-tunes account. what had happened when i tried to put the music back onto the old phone, it just wouldn't sync. eventually i found that it was because the music file was so large it wouldn't fit. so i had to select some music rather than try to fit it all on. so now we have the old phone with some music, the new phone with all the music, and some music belonging to a grandchild which got there goodness knows how. but its not doing any harm so it can stay. the new phone has masses of storage space so that's not a problem. i still hate i-tunes though