How do I manually move "iTunes" mp3 to iPhone?

Question

Ok here's the deal...
I have a New iPhone 4s and a $24.99 iTunes Match Membership with 8,000 songs stored on iCloud.
I have a 64kbps audio file that is 8 hours long, and is 95mb.
It won't upload to the iCloud as it is only 64kbps, and must be greater than 96kbps.
If I re-encode at 128kbps, the file is 471mb, way too large for me to want to upload.
So I just want to manually transfer this file to the iPhone without iCloud/iMatch.
I can't drag and drop it to my iPhone from within iTunes.
I can do it from a third party prog called Phoneview, which transfers the file through a Finder interface, but when I do, it does not import the crucial "remember playback position," metadata setting that iTunes has. And so when I open the file on my iPhone it starts this 8 hour mp3 from the beginning each time.
I would like it to remember the playback position...
I figure if I can just transfer the file to the iPhone from iTunes, (and not the Finder), this will work.
Can anyone offer me a suggestion?

Answer 1

Hi wjosten,
I don't like the way richisgame treated you and others in this thread, either. The only reason I'm responding with a solution is because I was looking for a solution to essentially the same problem richisgame was asking for, and I found this thread. This page was the second link that came up in Google when I searched "iCloud music storage 64kbps" - so it's clear this topic is of interst to many people.
A little background on why this is important to me.: A substantial portion (more than 2,000 tracks) of my iTunes playlist is from spoken word CDs, which I encoded into 64kpbs mono to save space. It's not important for me to have them available in the cloud, but I sometimes want to listen to some of these tracks on the go with my iPod Touch. Nearly all of my music is encoded at 128kpbs or better, and most of it is available through iTunes Match - so I'm not very interested in iCloud storage anyway, at least not at this time.
After doing a little bit of experimenting, here's the solution I foun to get individual tracks onto my iPod Touch (which I'm sure will work for iPhones and iPads equally well).Just go to System Preferneces on the iOS device, select Music, and turn off iTunes Match. Click on your iOS device in iTunes and then click on Music, and you'll be able to add artists, albums, playlists, individual trakcs, etc. on your device again. (It might take a few moments for iTunes to allow you to select individual artists/albums/playlists, etc. after you've unselected iTunes Match on your device, so be patient). Select what you want, perform a sync, and you're done.
To turn iTunes Match back on, just go back to System Preferneces on your iOS device, click Music, and then turn on iTunes Match.
I understand your frustration with richisgame and others who act rudly while asking for help. All I'm saying is there's got to be a way to not reward undesirable behavior while still helping those who find these forums looking for help. I'm not sure what the solution is yet.