I cannot transfer music to my 3gs with itunes

I cannot put music on my 3gs using itunes. All I get is a no entry sign and a message that says tunes cannot be transferred to this iphone. What am I doing wrong?

Are you using automatic or manual transfer of media? If you never remeber changing it, you are on automatic. You can switch it by going to your iPhone's summary page and unchecking the box mentioning media management. What I can tell you is that you have much more control over your media this way. It doesn't matter if a song is checked or not, to put on music, you plug in, find the song you would like to add, and just drag and drop it onto the name of your device on the iTunes sidebar. You should not be stopped this way. By the way, incase you don't know, hold down Ctrl to select multiple songs to move, and hold Shift to select all the songs between the two songs you select.

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