Iphone 5 not syncing music correctly
Wondering if theres anyone out there in internet world that can help me .
I have a macbook air thats running yosemite and an iPhone 5 on the latest iOS .
Recently I've been having quite a lot of trouble syncing music from iTunes to my iPhone .
By trouble what i mean is when your on the sync summary menu in iTunes selecting various albums to go on my iPhone ... it will not sync them correctly , even if i have manually cleared all my music off my phone .
Music that i download , is appearing on my phone , its just the rest of my collection I'm having trouble with
The only way i seem to be able to get the music i want onto my phone is to download my already purchased items straight onto my iPhone via the iTunes app . t
theres a syncing issue somewhere that i don't know about .
Any help would be greatly appreciated .
Thanks
Matty
I'm also having this issue - I'm getting about 27GB of garbage data put into the iPhone's 'other' category
iPhone 5 64GB
iTunes 11.4
MBP 10.8.5
iTunes is set to 'convert larger songs to 128k AAC', and it's trying to sync a 9,500 song library which is a mixture of aiff, wav, mp3, m4p and a couple of m4v.
Previously these all fit on my iPhone a treat. Left iTunes last night after already having transferred around 7000 of them - iTunes informed me i'd have nearly 10GB space remaining. Came back this morning and iTunes shows my phone is now 15GB over capacity. It shows all the library has synced though - no greyed out songs.
When I go to the phone, that says it has 7GB space remaining and only 1700 songs synced. in the music app itself, there's very few songs in there. Looking in Settings>General>Usage, there's no visibility of where that 27GB is being used up. Music category is only 11GB (which should be more like 38GB).
Please help I've wiped and resynced my phone 3 times now, it's driving me mental: I just want to listen to music. I've never had this issue with Android's drag n drop.
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I've had my iPhone 5 for 6 months and still can't get any music on it. Please help
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HollyTingTongHello HollyTingTong,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535
Best of luck,
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