Control iTunes library from both MB and iPhone
Hi Dears,
Couldn't find a direct answer to the following question:
I have a MacBook and an iPhone. Have some music purchased in iTunes Store and some from an external source directly loaded from MB to the phone. Currently manual sync is set up.
Usually I buy or load full albums and then remove songs I don't like. Usually I do such "cleaning" on the go in the iPhone.
If I setup automatic sync I can reach the case when I remove songs in iTunes library and they are removed from the synced devices.
The question is whether vice versa the songs I've removed on my iPhone could be automatically removed from my iTunes library?
(i.e. I want to reach one library managed from different devices).
Please advise
Thanks,
Anton
The phone syncs to the computer, not the other way around. Transferring purchases is a syncing option but does not delete items on the computer if they are not on the phone:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
You can try doing something with playlists, making a smart playlist with things that are not in a transferred playlist, then delete everything in the smart playlist, but you're really trying to do it all reverse from the way it is intended to be done:
Export playlists from iOS - http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=12139603&postcount=3
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