Help manually managing music

please someone help me with this
i have half my music on my comp @ home and the other half on my laptop, how can i make my iphone manually manage the music?

Ok, after some more research this is some information I found about this issue.
The iPhone is designed to sync from a playlist. This article will give more information.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305741
The playlists are very flexible and customizable in iTunes, this article gives more informaiton. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/7.0/en/513.html

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I need help manually managing music- I only want select artists and albums in bulk

Hi All,
I am currently trying to sync music with a new Ipod (120GB) and am having diffuculty.
What I have done: I have checked the 'Manually manage music' box and am able to select music I want to sync with the Ipod no the 'Music' Page of the Ipod.
What I am trying to do: I have over 400GB of music, so I only want to select certain artists and albums. In this case I am trying to select batches of music to take across to another PC in alphabetical order. In other words, I want to select all Artists and Albums starting with the letters A, B and C.
What I want to know how to avoid: I am currently being forced to click on every single artist and album starting with A, B and C individually which as you can imagine is taking hours!!! I want to be able to select all artists or albums starting at one point and ending at another point, without having to click individually on each and every line item.
Please help! This is going to take me forever!
KCM

Enable the sidebar with CTRL+S if not there
Create a playlist with CTRL+N
Go to the Songs view.
Click the heading of the Album column until it reads Album
Select the first track of the first album
Scroll down the list until you see the last track of the last album beginning with C
Hold down shift and click that last track
Drag the selection to the playlist name and let go
Click the heading of the Album column until it reads Album by Artist
Select the first track of the first album
Scroll down the list until you see the last track of the last album beginning with C
Hold down shift and click that last track
Drag the selection to the playlist name and let go, don't copy duplicates
Drag this playlist to the device, or better yet go to automatic syncing and sync the playlist. You can then edit for the next update when the device isn't connected. You can also create additional playlists for stuff you "must have" on the iPod, new stuff etc. Automatic syncing is easier, more powerful, and more selective than manual management.
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Help- Manually managing Music, Playlists appear to transfer iphone...

But don't appear on the i-phone, What am I doing wrong?

Sorry-
In i-Tunes, under the summary tab / options I have selected Manually mange my music and videos.
When I drag a play list I created in i-Tunes from the left side of my i-Tunes screen and drop it onto my i-phone, everything seems fine (i-Tunes allows the transfer and it my phone lights up indicatign it is syncing), however when I eject the phoen and gotothe ipod funciton and select palylists, th eonly thing shown is Genius Playlist and On-The-Go.
Update- 11-25-09 11:39PM I installed i-Tunes 9.0.2.025 earlier today and now the problem seems to have been resolved. I was current on the last upgrade, so don't know if it was a coincidence or.........
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How do you delete songs that you purchased through iTunes but don't show up when you connect the iphone to iTunes? They don't show up in the music section when you click on "On this phone". Side Note: I have my phone setup to manually manage music. Please help.

Hi, Mrs.Frankie57.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you want to delete a song from your iOS device on iOS 7, tap Songs, swipe the song from right to left, then tap Delete. The song is deleted from iPhone, but not from your iTunes library on your Mac or PC, or from iCloud.
iPhone User Guide
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An iPhone does not support want is called disk mode which is required for this.
An iPhone can be synced with iTunes content on a single computer only, and the same for manually manage music and video. You can sync contact information, calendar events, and bookmarks with multiple computers, but not with iTunes content, and the same for photos transferred from a computer to an iPhone.
If you want to sync iTunes content with your MacBook, you need to transfer your iTunes library from your PC to your MacBook.

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Anyway, I'm doing the restore now just in case and will respond tomorrow with how everything is working.

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So I'm quite startled to find only a few topics about this without any resolution. Up until today after I upgraded to iTunes 11, I was always able to set my main itunes to manually manage music with my iphone and then go to ANY computer and add music to my iphone. NOW it wants to wipe my whole iphone library every time I try to apply the "manually manage music" option which would allow me to add music from any computer. I ask the community here - WHEN did this happen? Are we no longer allowed to do add music manually from any computer? WHATS the point of manually manage music (the whole point was that you didn't need to sync always with one comp)? I've tried wiping my iphone at two locations I often add music at with checking the manually manage music and everytime I wipe at one place then go to the other it wants to wipe again when I check the box to add music. I would really like to know if this is how it works now - meaning YOU NOW CAN ONLY ADD MUSIC TO YOUR IPHONE THROUGH ONE ITUNES LIBRARY. If so, I will be immediately uninstalling iTunes and finding alternatives. I appreciate any info or help. Thanks.

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Perhaps the reason you were able to add music from more than one computer in the past is that you had done something similar by accident rather than design...
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Manually Manage Music Option get error The iPod cannot be updated error(-50

I am following the instructions on how to move music to a new computer. When I get to the step "Switch the iPod to manual update and enable disk use" and try to apply the 'Manually manage music' option, I get the following error: 'The iPod (my iPod) cannot be updated. An unknown error occurred (-50). I have tried moving my dock between the two USB ports on my Dell but nothing works..can someone help?

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Hi, I am wondering if I have an iPod and so does my boyfriend and he has a CD of his that he ripped to his iTunes and I want it, is there a way for me to select the Manually Manage Music option and add just that CD from his iTunes in stead of having to rip it to my computer too and still have it be synced with my library on my computer? or will it erase the CD that I added off from his when I go back to mine? Please help me out!

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Welcome to the Support Communities!
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Good morning all, so I can't figure this out, If I have my iTunes set to manually manage music and videos how do I synch my voice memo's? Last night when I was doing that it seemed to me I had to change it to synch selected songs and once I checked Voice Memo's it emptied my iPhone of all the music. Is that right, or am I missing something? Thanks for your help!

thanks for the reply but I was hoping to find out where they go on the Mac, from the Finder point of view... where are the actual files after syncing any iPhone with voice memo recordings on it ?
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In case this can help anyone out there, still love my iPhone 3gs !

I just turned on my iPod Touch and all my music has been wiped... (my iTunes was set to manually manage music, and all my apps are still on the iPod...).

What has happened and how do I get my music back? Obviously I have some of it on iTunes but others I don't have anymore... I can't understand how my music would suddenly disappear when my iPod has been working fine. My iTunes was set to manually manage music (and even if it hadn't been, then my iPod would have been synced to it anyway, so that can't explain why it's gone) and all my apps are there as usual. It's the version of the iPod touch before the camera was introduced. Please help!

CharlieCharlieCharlieCharlie wrote:
My iTunes was set to manually manage music...
That makes it difficult to provide any assistance. I hate to say this but you chose to manage the music yourself and there's no way that i/we can figure out what you did that caused the problem.

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