Thanks for your help, guys! A friend with an iPhone recently confirmed what you said (upload them to iTunes first). Vitaliy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandros Nipirakis" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 05:55 Subject: Re: [TECH] Playing MP3s on the iPhone? > 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 > >> 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 >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> > View/change your membership options at >> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist