iPhone - manual management of music?

[The Dude]

(I'm fishing here because I see cyberface is around )

Has anyone come up with a work-around for the frankly pathetic decision by Apple to prevent you from manually managing your music on iPhone?

[cyberface]

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... )

[The Dude]

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

[Leithen]

That got me at first too, but as cyberface says, create a few playlists, tell the iPhone to sync selected playlists, and optionally to sync only checked songs and videos - and bingo.

I didn't really bother with playlists before, but I've almost come round to the idea now.

[The Dude]

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.