Itunes won't allow me to transfer music to my Iphone

It keeps giving me a circle symbol with a line through it. How do I fix this?

It sounds as if you are trying to move it while attached to iTunes and move individual songs. In the Summary page of iTunes, do you have Manually Manage Music checked? If not, that is why you cannot move individual songs. If you change to manually manage music, it will give you a warning that it is going to delete all of the current music on the phone and only take what you manually move over there.

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Itunes will not allow me to transfer music to my iphone, how do I fix this?

Got a new computer, authorized it with my account, downloaded music (from a 3rd party website not itunes), but it will not allow me to transfer music to my iphone. What else do I need to do? Help!

What have you tried?
What happened?
Error message?
What did it say?
Any info at all?
In what format is the music?

TS1717 I have iPhone 4s. I downloaded iTunes to my PC and when I connected my iPhone to the PC iTunes showed a message that my device's time limit has expired. So iTunes doesn't allow me to transfer files from my iPhone to my PC .

I have iPhone 4s. I downloaded iTunes to my PC and when I connected my iPhone to the PC iTunes showed a message that my device's time limit has expired. So iTunes doesn't allow me to transfer files from my iPhone to my PC .

Carmell-
When I've had a similar problem, it was because I was accessing the iTunes store from a device I hadn't used before, such as when I upgraded from an iPad 1 to the iPad 2. It was a little confusing to me until I figured it out.
All I had to do was use the ID of my existing account and play along with the iTunes store. As I recall, it asked for my password twice, and the security code from the back of my credit card. After that, downloads proceeded as before.
Fred

ITunes won't allow me to manage music on my device

So I just got a new hard drive, and I couldn't recover my library of music from my first drive, but it IS all on my phone. I've started to build a new library of music but iTunes won't allow me to manually manage the music on my iPhone without doing a complete sync, and erasing my first library. How do I resolve this?

It sounds as if you are trying to move it while attached to iTunes and move individual songs. In the Summary page of iTunes, do you have Manually Manage Music checked? If not, that is why you cannot move individual songs. If you change to manually manage music, it will give you a warning that it is going to delete all of the current music on the phone and only take what you manually move over there.

ITunes will not allow me to transfer music manually to my iPhone

Hello,
Since I got my iPhone 4S in March, I have been manually adding music to my phone by connecting the phone, and dragging music to my phone. Recently, I had to reformat my PC and when I reinstalled iTunes, I try to click and drag music but it gives me the small red x while i hover over the iphone in the itunes window.
I don't really know what I should do to try and fix this issue. I have tried to authorizde/deauthorize the computer. In my account on the iTunes store, it says only 1 computer is able to play purchased content or something like that. Can this be resolved other than having to erase the phones content and startng over?
Thanks.

The following is from Apple article:
Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers
iPod shuffle and iPhone are intended for use with a single computer. You cannot load music from multiple computers or iTunes libraries onto iPod shuffle and iPhone like you can with other devices.
Sync is only oneway, from PC to your device. Unless you have the music on your PC, iTunes is going to wipe out what you have on your device if you are syncing to a new library.
You can only transfer Purchased music over to Itunes on your PC.
iTunes Store: Transferring purchases from your iOS device or iPod to a computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
As for you own music, you may have to use a third party software to copy back to your iTunes library. A good Free one is called Sharepod which you can download from Download.com here:
http://download.cnet.com/SharePod/3000-2141_4-10794489.html?tag=mncol;2

ITunes won't allow me to import music from a shared library

I Don't have an option to import music from a shared library.

Then when the shared library is in view in iTunes there should be an import option in the bottom right corner of the window.

Itunes won't allow me to add music to library. Itunes designated to external drive.

I have an external drive connected to my mac mini. My itunes library is designated to the external drive insted of my internal drive to save space. When I try to add music to my itunes library it gives me an error stating I do not have permission. How do I work around this?

How exactly did you designate?
When did this happen? From the minute you designated or some time afterward?
The correct answer lies in knowing details not yet provided. Until then:
Read the part about changing permissions on the iTunes folder in: https://discussions.apple.com/message/11583914
Permissions issue when using external drive - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3401007, especially https://discussions.apple.com/message/16675231 and deleting SC Info folder

ITunes won't sync all my purchased music to my iPhone 4

The music that was purchased on my iPhone was erased from my phone, but it's still on iTunes. When I try to sync it back to my phone, the playlist "Purchased from my iPhone" is listed is there but none of the music is there. It's not in my library either. I checked the box to sync it but nothing works, and the rest of my music is still on my phone. Please help!

replying to aissy55
It comes up with a 1428 error message sometimes, and sometimes it says that I have to restore my iPod. I have restored it many times, but it just keeps going in a circle and will not sync my songs back to the iPod.
hmmmm. if you're relentlessly getting a recovery mode message, then you might be having a Windows drive letter confusion. see the following document for troubleshooting suggestions with that:
"iTunes has detected an iPod in recovery mode - Use iTunes to restore"

ITunes doesn't allow me to put music in my iPhone 5

Hi. I have realized, that my iTunes doesn't introduce the music I select into my iPhone5. Kind of weird. If I choose just a few songs (5,10) they go in. But if I select a vast amount of them (400+) they just stay with this sign and sometimes with grey color or sometimes and unselectable, or also sometimes just with this sing but selectable. (With selectable I mean I can use it and play it)
I have tried everything. First I thought it was a mess with the enough space, but it isn't. I restart counters but doesn't work. I've updated iTunes, and iPhone (7.1.1) but neither is.
Help me please

Hi. I wonder what do you mean when you say "home button"?
What I understood is that you think i have a Mac computer? I have Windows 7
Or correct me if i'm wrong of course!
And anyway thank you!

Where is the "Recently Added" section? And how do I transfer music to my iPhone now?

I just downloaded the newest version of iTunes, and what do you know, I hate it. I literally can't find ANYTHING that I need, and just end up getting ******. Can someone help me find the "Recently Added" in the new version of iTunes, and show me how to transfer music to my iPhone again?

You can restore much of the look & feel of the previous version with these shortcuts:
ALT to temporarily display the menu bar
CTRL+B to show or hide the menu bar
CTRL+S to show or hide the sidebar
CTRL+/ to show or hide the status bar (won't hide for me on Win XP)
Click the magnifying glass top right and untick Search Entire Library to restore the old search behaviour
Use View > Hide <Media Kind> in the cloud or Edit > Preferences > Store and untick Show iTunes in the cloud purchases to hide the cloud items. The second method eliminates the cloud status column (and may let iTunes start up more quickly)
If you don't like having different colours for each album use Edit > Preferences > General and untick Use custom colours for open albums, movies, etc. .
Displaying the sidebar should make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Should you feel the need to roll back to iTunes 10.7 first download a copy of the 32 bit installer or 64 bit installer as appropriate, uninstall iTunes and supporting software, i.e. Apple Application Support & Apple Mobile Device Support. Reboot. Restore the pre-upgrade version of your library database as per the diagram below, then install iTunes 10.7.
See iTunes Folder Watch for a tool to scan the media folder and catch up with any changes made since the backup file was created.
tt2

My iTunes won't allow me to manually transfer my songs to my ipod

my iTunes won't allow me to manually transfer my songs to my ipod.
When I sync my music , it won't copy all of my songs. When I un-sync
my music, it removes all of my songs from my ipod. I never had this problem
with my older version of iTunes. Any advice would be appreciated!

I have a similar problem. After downloading a album from ITunes, i can not import to my gen 5 ipod. I get the message update your ipod but the update button is inactive and states ipod is upto date. What is going on?

My iphone won't allow me to transfer any music. A lot more problems follow in the below paragraph

Hello all,
I really appreciate any help and advice I can get.
First my iphone won't allow me to drag music over to it. I'm old school and I like to drag specific tracks over to my iphone. iTunes won't let me do that. I have tried creating a new playlist and syncing again but still I can't do that. Any help or ideas?
Also, I keep getting the message that "x number of items could not be synced. See iTunes for more information". What does this mean???? I read some where that clearing the photo cache can help. One problem, I CAN'T FIND THIS PHOTO CACHE!!!!! Where is this thing. I read that you need to click "go" on the iTunes menu. My menu doesn't say go. What's going on? How to i find the iphone photo cache and get rid of that annoying message?!?
Also, before I get to any of the stages above, sometimes during syncing on iTunes with my iPhone 4S, it keeps getting stuck at "waiting for changes to be applied". Once again, anyone have ideas about how I can overcome this?
Please I need someone to go on before I throw this phone into the thames.

Is your iPhone restricted? Check Settings > General > Restrictions

Am syncing my iPhone 4 to a new laptop. It will not allow me to transfer music from this new laptop/iTunes to my phone. Why? And how do i fix this?

Hi there,
I have a new laptop.
I have music on my laptop that I have not purchased through iTunes (ie, uploaded CD's, copied to my laptop from my old computer, etc).
For some reason, iTunes will not allow me to transfer this music to my iPhone. I get the "red circle with the cross through it" symbol when I try to drop it into the iPhone..
Can someone suggest a way that I can oversome this and add my music to my phone from my new computer?
At this stage, I can only add music to it via the old iTunes/old computer that the phone was originally synced to.
Cheers

Hi there,
You may want to take a look at some of the information found in the article below.
iTunes Store: About authorization and deauthorization
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1420
-Griff W.

When I connect my iPhone (5s) to my computer it says that it's storage is full and that I have over 4,000 pictures even though I have deleted all of them. It won't allow me to add music or anything else either because it says my phone is full.

When I connect my iPhone (5s) to my computer it says that it's storage is full and that I have over 4,000 pictures even though I have deleted all of them. It won't allow me to add music or anything else either because it says my phone is full. I have restarted my phone and the computer multiple times, but it still tells me that my phone is full.

iPod touches or any iDevices from Apple sync only to one computer. If you sync to a different computer, all your music will be replace with the music from the new computer's iTunes. If the music were purchased from iTunes, you can re-download them again otherwise the music on iPod touch will be deleted. Do you have iTunes backup?

HT1420 Hi I am trying to sync my pone but wont allow me to transfer music purchased on the phone. States I have 5 authorised computers on my account but when i logg into my account it only identifies 1 so i carn't deactive? trying to backup data to put

Hi I am trying to sync my ip3 but wont allow me to transfer music purchased on the phone to itunes on the laptop. States I have 5 authorised computers on my account but when i logg into my itunes account it only identifies 1 so i carn't deactive all to start again? I am trying to backup data fom myip3 to put on ip4 so carnt even complete sync atm Any ideas on what to do??

To change the iCloud ID you have to go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account, provide the password for the old ID when prompted to turn off Find My iDevice, then sign back in with the ID you wish to use.
If your sister doesn't know the password for her old ID, and if her old ID is an earlier version of her current ID, she needs to temporarily recreate the old ID so you can delete if from your phone using her current password. To do this, have her go to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with her current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to her old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to her old email address. You can now use the password for her current ID to turn off Find My iDevice on your device, even though it prompts you for the password for her old account ID. After you do this, Next, have your sister recreate her current ID again by going back to https://appleid.apple.com and changing her primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was.
Then your can save any photo stream photos that you wish to keep to the camera roll on your device, then go to Settings>iCloud, tap Delete Account and choose Delete from My iDevice when prompted. You will be prompted to either keep or delete the iCloud data from your device. If the data is already in another account you can choose Delete. If you need to migrate it to another account, choose Keep, then choose Merge when signing into the new account.

Itunes won't allow me to transfer music to my Iphone

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