Moving music / data from iPhone to iTunes

Hard-drive burned up and has been replaced. Most music was backed up, but not all. And most of the new music (that hasn't been backed-up) is on the iPhone. But I can't copy the files on my iPhone back to my new hard drive. Obviously there are security measures to keep folks from transferring files all over the place. But it seems that if it's on my iPhone, I must have obtained it legally, and there must be some accommodation for a dead hard drive.
Same question for my iPhone apps. I'd rather not pay for apps twice, and iTunes won't let me copy them from my iPhone back onto my 'puter. As soon as I sync apps, they'll all disappear, unless there's some way to convince the phone that it's looking at the old, pre-burned-up-hard-drive.
OS X 10.5.8, iPhone 3G with 3.1.3
Thanks!

File>Transfer Purchases sort of worked, but not completely. I have about 600 songs on my iPhone, and it copied about 200 of them to my new hard drive. I have music purchased from iTunes, music copied from purchased CDs, and free downloads (Starbucks, Paste, etc). And there's no trend in what got copied and what didn't. Some of each category was copied, but not all. Very confusing that I can't find a pattern.

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Okay, so you've already setup the new iPhone as new. If you're too far into using it and don't want to set it up from the backup of your old iPhone, the only other thing I can think of trying is to check the old iPhone's Apps page in iTunes, under the File Sharing section, to see if you can access your Health documents. I don't use HealthKit so I won't be much help with how to transfer the data that way.
Another option might be if you can sync your health data on the old iPhone to iCloud and see if that updates it on your new iPhone. On your iPhones, go to Settings>iCloud>Backup.
It is usually better to setup a new device as new to avoid any glitches, but it can make transferring data more complicated. If neither of these options work, consider backing up your old iPhone after checking 'Encrypt iPhone backup' and then restoring your new iPhone from that encrypted backup.

Need brief tutorial on moving music library from iphone to imac

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It's not just your media that will suffer if you switch computers, you app data, contacts etc are at risk too. Unless you are unable to do so you should migrate your exisitng library the device syncs with, or a backup of it, to your new computer. This is much easier than extracting content from the device. Otherwise...
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Backup the device to the new installation
Transfer your purchases into a newly authorized library
Recover any other media using third party tools as suggested in this post from forum regular Zevoneer
Restore the device from the backup
This process should switch the association of the device to the new library, preserving the data and settings in your apps.
May also be prudent to attempt a backup to iCloud directly from the device before you start... Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup > iCloud Backup > On. It won't save any media but it would preserve the general account settings and documents in case anything goes wrong while you are trying to extract your other data.
When you get it all fixed, make a backup!
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Hello Everyone,
So I have a question about syncing my IPhone with my iTunes and voice memos. So here it goes:
Question 1. I wanted to sync my memos to my iTunes library. Ever since I got my IPhone 5 in Sept, my phone would not sync the new voice memos to the iTunes library. So I followed the steps of syncing the memos to the library - I went to iTunes, under music I selected sync music. A message appeared and said that my phone "was synced with another computer, and can only be synced to one computer at a time, so I chose to go forward and it prompted me with a message saying all my music, videos and tones would be deleted (did not say anything about deleting voice memos) so i said screw it and went forward.
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So, how do I add the older voice memos to my iTunes library, when now it will only add the newer once that were made since I got the new phone?
Note* I did make a full backup of my phone right before re-syncing my phone with itues music library)
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Ok, so now I have 4 new voice memos that were made since i got my new iphone, and they are in itunes (but all my old ones are no longer in iTunes, yet they are still on the phone). How Exactly do I transfer the voice memos from iTunes --> to a USB key and or my computer hdd (as a stand along file that i can open and close without iTunes).
I need to figure this out because I am doing my masters thesis and just did my first interview today, and I need to get the file onto my computer so that I can use an alternate player to listen and transcribe what was said in the interview.
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A

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4062
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I have an iPhone 4S and a Mac Mini (2010). On four or five occasions since upgrading to OS X 10.8.2 and iOS 6, after a wi-fi sync, all or almost all of my music has disappeared from my phone (sometimes the most recent podcasts remain).
Simply syncing again (over wi-fi or USB) doesn't fix it. To fix it, I need to uncheck "Sync Music" and "Sync Podcasts" on the Mac, sync, recheck them, and sync again. Then it works for a while.
Additional context: like others, I've been experiencing other issues with wi-fi sync since installing iOS 6. In general, I can't initiate a sync from the phone, either manually or by plugging it in. I can sync from the Mac, but sometimes the Mac becomes unable to find the iPhone on the network. Turning off wi-fi and turning it back on again seems to fix this and allow the Mac to initiate a sync.
Shortly after installing iOS 6, I restored the iPhone and set it up as a new phone, hoping that would fix the sync connectivity problems (it didn't). More recently, I restored from backup. Didn't help.
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The exact same problem has been happening on my iPhone as well. Very irritating. Drives me mad.
Although unfortunately I don't have a solution, I would like to ask you something. When you were setting up your iPhone, did you choose to restore from iCloud so that your iTunes purchased musics would fly into your decive?
The reason I'm asking this is that in my opinion, a conflict happens when making a Wi-Fi sync about deciding music storage so that an erase happens by itself. And it's probably a corner case so that it doesn't happen every time.
Also, as a side note, all the countless times I Wi-Fi synced my iPad, which was not iCloud restored, nothing like this never ever happened.

How can i import back the music from iphone to itunes

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Even with iTunes set to sync an iPod or iPhone automatically when connected, when connecting an iPhone to iTunes on a different computer than is used to sync with the iPhone, a warning message is provided along with a warning message that all iTunes content on the iPhone will be erased first, which must be approved.
Contacts on your iPhone are not touched unless you select to sync contacts with a supported address book application on the computer which is selected under the Info tab for the iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, which is not selected automatically.
3rd party apps can be downloaded again with iTunes on a computer that is logged in with your iTunes account or with your iPhone and you won't be charged again for a purchased app as long as you use the same iTunes account to download the app that was used to purchase the app originally, but not the same with music, which can be downloaded once.

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You can recover any purchased songs that are on iPhones using the procedure here.
If this is not available, you can ask Apple to allow you to download your music again. Note that, first, they DO NOT HAVE TO DO THIS. Purchase of music from the iTunes store entitles you to one download of that item. Second, note that if Apple does allow you to download a second time, they have to pay royalties on each download, whether you pay for it or not. Last, if they allow it, please back up your purchases.
To request a redownload, contact iTunes support from the menus in iTunes or use this page.
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Transfering data from iPhone BACK to Mac

Hi. My Mac's hard drive recently crashed and everything is wiped out. I have a new hard disk now.
My question is: How do I transfer data FROM my iPhone... BACK to my Mac? I would like to transfer data from my iCal, iTunes, iPhotos and contacts.
Would appreciate some advice. It's been a very frustrating experience. I don't want to screw up and end up deleting all my data from my iPhone instead.

While I have read and checked, and looked into this topic, there
isn't a whole bunch of stuff that is easily found via online search
even if the search terms or words are changed around quite a bit.
For just moving iTunes music, that is easier than data; and I can
see the need to re-integrate data and your stuff back to a Mac
especially if you need to restore the computer, should it fail. The
items on an iPhone or iPod Touch, etc, would be essential to a
multi-tasking user who has a home base and needs to save and
use this stuff between several devices you have and own.
Most of the sync information on how to move stuff, tends to delete
the peripheral content from the iPod, iPhone, etc and sets them
back to some pre-used state or default initialization. There must
be some other way, that actually lets the user take control over
items so you can archive and restore, or reuse them in your Mac.
So, with the odds not looking good, on retaining content should
one go through with the often suggested sync or other wiping
results of attaching a Mac to a portable iPod, etc, be careful to
not do that unless you have that content somewhere else first!
Is there a way you could use a gmail account to save and move
items, perhaps if you can upload content there, it can be saved
into a computer via email (wireless, etc) and save it that way?
For the iTunes music, you could check into and see if this thing
called (iTunes, backward) may work. I have not read a lot about
it, though it has been around awhile. Not sure what else it can do.
• Senuti - recover music from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your Mac:
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Since I don't have an iPod, iPad or iPhone (any cell phone) I am
also uniquely unqualified to offer a functioning reply to this topic.
In any case...
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