Vitaliy,

I have had to help someone with this recently.

Basically, the way that iTunes works with this is that it has a "Sync"
operation.  You have a couple of options:

1. You can load all your music into itunes -- then create playlists and then
sync the playlists onto the iphone.  If you connect your iPhone to the
computer and have iTunes open, you should be able to click onto the Music
tab under the iPhone device and either sync all playlists or specific
playlists.

2.  You can set the iPhone to be manually sync'd and just drag the music
onto the iphone its self.  Thing to keep in mind is BE CAREFUL with your ID3
tags -- you will not see file names on the iPhone but rather the song name
and artists.  This is a problem for me (but probably not you) since I did a
lot of my Mp3's back in the day before a good encoder came around.

I have a screenshot somewhere if you need it to show you where to check onto
manually manage music -- I think (off the top of my head) it is on the music
tab on iPhone, but cannot say for sure.

Thanks,

Aleksei



2009/8/17 Heinz Czychun <hczychun@lks.net>

> Hi Vitaliy,
>
>       Not an iPhone user, but a Mac user with experience in iLife,
> of which iTunes is a part.
> My first thought would be that you need to load your collection into
> iTunes, first, them into the iPhone.  Does that make sense?
>
>      I believe Apple put iTunes in the way, so the user will find it
> too easy to buy from the Apple store. Jobs is the ultimate sales guy.
>
> Heinz
>
>
> On 17-Aug-09, at 4:30 AM, Vitaliy wrote:
>
> > So I finally joined the iPhone herd. Unfortunately, there is one
> > thing that
> > I cannot figure out: how do you play MP3s on the iPhone? Not the
> > songs you
> > get from iTunes, but the ones I already have in my collection?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Bah,
> >
> > Vitaliy
> >
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