Syncing iPod Contentfrom Your iTunes Library
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Syncing iPod Content from Your iTunes Library
If you’ve turned on syncing, iTunes automatically syncs content from your iTunes library to iPhone each time you connect it to your computer. iTunes lets you sync all of your media, or specific songs, videos, and podcasts. For example, you could set iTunes to sync selected music playlists and the three most recent episodes of your favorite video podcast.
If there are more songs in your iTunes library than can fit on your iPhone, iTunes asks if you want to create a special playlist and set it to sync with iPhone. Then iTunes randomly fills the playlist. You can add or delete songs from the playlist and sync again. If you set iTunes to sync more songs, videos, and other content than can fit on iPhone, you can have iTunes automatically delete random content from iPhone to make room, or you can stop the sync and reconfigure your sync settings.
When you sync podcasts or audiobooks on iPhone with those on your computer, both iTunes and iPhone remember where you last left off and start playing from that position.
For information about using iTunes to get music and other media onto your computer, see “Syncing iPhone with Your Computer” on page 7.
Transferring Purchased Content from iPhone to Another Authorized Computer
Music, video, and podcasts sync from your iTunes library to iPhone, but not from iPhone to your iTunes library. However, content you purchased using the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store on iPhone is automatically copied to your iTunes library.
You can also transfer content on iPhone that was purchased using iTunes on one computer to an iTunes library on another authorized computer.
Transfer content from iPhone to another computer
- Connect iPhone to the other computer. iTunes asks if you want to transfer purchased content. You can also connect iPhone and, in iTunes, choose File > Transfer Purchases.
To play the content, the computer must be authorized to play content from your iTunes account.
Supported Music and Video Formats
Only songs and videos encoded in formats that iPhone supports are transferred to iPhone. For information about which formats iPhone supports, see page 117.
Converting Videos for iPhone
You can add videos other than those purchased from iTunes to iPhone, such as videos you create in iMovie on a Macintosh or videos you download from the Internet.
If you try to add a video from iTunes to iPhone and a message says the video can’t play on iPhone, you can convert the video.
Convert a video to work with iPhone
- Select the video in your iTunes library and choose Advanced > “Convert Selection for iPod.”Then add the converted video to iPhone.
