iPhone - manual management of music?
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What do you mean? Do you want to organise your own folders and use the iPhone like a flash disk? If so, and you're jailbroken, then there's a MacFUSE plugin IIRC that allows you to mount the iPhone filesystem on your OS X Finder as a regular volume.
If you want it to work as a flash disk on Windows via USB I think you're out of luck, but since I don't use Windows I can't really say whether it's feasible or not.
If you mean dragging / dropping music into the iPhone via iTunes - yeah I found that really really weird to start with, but I just created a playlist called 'iPhone' and set the phone to sync that playlist only... and then just drag and drop with that playlist. Works well enough for me - what are you trying to do?
(that said, remember that my phone is hacked beyond all recognition and doesn't even show up in iTunes 'devices' any more... )
cyberface said:
What do you mean? Do you want to organise your own folders and use the iPhone like a flash disk? If so, and you're jailbroken, then there's a MacFUSE plugin IIRC that allows you to mount the iPhone filesystem on your OS X Finder as a regular volume.
If you want it to work as a flash disk on Windows via USB I think you're out of luck, but since I don't use Windows I can't really say whether it's feasible or not.
If you mean dragging / dropping music into the iPhone via iTunes - yeah I found that really really weird to start with, but I just created a playlist called 'iPhone' and set the phone to sync that playlist only... and then just drag and drop with that playlist. Works well enough for me - what are you trying to do?
(that said, remember that my phone is hacked beyond all recognition and doesn't even show up in iTunes 'devices' any more... )
I didn't mean mouting it as an external drive but now you mention it I'm off to look for that plugin
Yep - dragging and dropping music. Terrible decision by Apple to remove that feature. I just don't understand it, the old way was perfect, exactly how you'd want it. Boo...
Playlist, schmaylist
But; iPod touch, drag-and-drop music; iPhone no drag-and-drop music.
It's almost like they deliberately made it more difficult for iPhone users for no fathomable reason that I can see.
So far people like me that have music on one computer and contacts/calendar/email on another, it's even more frustrating as you have to fart about turning sync options on and off to prevent stuff getting erased/synced when you don't want it to.
It's almost like they deliberately made it more difficult for iPhone users for no fathomable reason that I can see.
So far people like me that have music on one computer and contacts/calendar/email on another, it's even more frustrating as you have to fart about turning sync options on and off to prevent stuff getting erased/synced when you don't want it to.
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