Need help adding music to my phone. music shows up on my phone in itunes but is grayed out and looks like it is syncing., need help adding music to my phone. music shows up on my phone in itunes but is grayed out and looks like it is syncing.

so i restored my phone because it had quit playing any sound out of the speaker. now after trying to re-add my music now of it will go on. i have tried syncing it and manually adding it, neither one works. nothing shows up on my phone under music, but in itunes when i drag music on it goes to puts them in the transfer stage (grey with the circle arrows) and they just stay like that never going on my phone

A bit confused by your statement
bcboarder wrote:
. I do not understand why the music is clearly on the Ipod but wont reconize it anywhere.
Are you seeing your music listed in the iPod screen, or in Win explorer as in your earlier post?
I can see all the songs in my Edrive>al's Ipod> Ipod Control> Music folder.
A corrupted iPod database, will report zero music used, and have your music size reported as others, so you wont see the music in the iPod screen. Sorry, I thought there was some hope for you with iPodAccess, in recovery of the corrupted iPod database with your ratings.
You can try to borrow and use the Mac Disk Utility ->First Aid ->Repair.
Of course, if your iPod Hardisk is in a bad state, from the Disk Diagnostic report, then all my suggestion are futile.

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hi
recently bought a 4s iphone. Tried to add music in the same way as with an ipad but the music does not show. It says that there is no content on the iphone. It appears that the music takes up memory but I am not able to play it. I have tried to sync the phone but this does not appear to work.
Do you have any advice?
many thanks

Hi Gail
Thanks for your initial response. When I plug my phone in it is recognised as a device in iTunes. I have tried dragging songs from iTunes to the phone. The rotating symbol appears to say it is being added but it will not appear on the phone. I have also tried to add music by creating a playlist and then syncing. The memory changes to say music has been added but again no music appears on the phone.
Let me know if you require any further information.
Hope you can help
Chris

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Greetings michealjerold,
When syncing between iTunes on your computer and your iPhone, be sure to use the procedures in this article -
Sync your iPhone, iPad, and iPod with iTunes using USB - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Be well,
Brett L

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I have an ebook in ITunes that is showing up under Music>more>Genres>Audiobooks, and I would like for it to go in the IBook app. I just added to my phone, is there a way to add this book to that app.?

Sioux7 wrote:
I have an ebook in ITunes that is showing up under Music>more>Genres>Audiobooks
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fighter19lisa wrote:
that only makes it say its synced, when its not.
No, it does not. It transfers purchases from the iDevice to the computer. The computer must be authorized for the Apple ID that the content was acquired with.
fighter19lisa wrote:
my playlists wont show up on the phone.
Are they selected to sync? Is Manually Manage content on the device selected?
fighter19lisa wrote:
i had to change my password for my aol account again and i still cannot get my email on my phone to even work
What does that have to do with syncing content to the device? FYI, nothing.

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Thank you for replying. Yes I deleted the old email address..

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2. was told i need to find old password to authorize computer but cant , as i said , find it though apple id site.....so have no clue whist to do .... already spent 20.00 repurchasing some out of frustration.
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reb101 wrote:
OK, I finally got it - do the following:
1. Connect Pre to your computer in USB mode.
2. Open search feature and search for "ipod controls" file in the Pre drive (on my computer this is drive E
3. On the search feature, go to advanced tab and tell it to search for hidden files.
4. It should find ipod controls.
5. DELETE, DELETE, DELETE
Keep in mind that this will delete all previously uploaded music installed by using *ughhh* itunes. I love it. Now I just drag and drop all music to my Pre drive. Hope this helps. It is nice to have a fresh start without having to wipe the entire phone. Good luck out there.
This worked brilliantly!!! Thank you so much!! Pre is set......only issue now is that fact that half my music in iTunes is in a Protected AAC file format that the Pre can't play

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Hi Samma7,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The articles below may help you with this. You can only sync your iPhone to one iTunes Library, so you will have to decide which computer to use. I would suggest following the steps in the article below to backup your iTunes library to an external drive to copy it to your new computer at home.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4527
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1535?viewlocale=en_US
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