transfer music to iPhone

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hi,

I have an iPhone 4 and would like to transfer music from my laotop running OpenSUSE 13.2 to it. I have installed ifuse and managed to successfully mount my iPhone to ~/iphone and can access the files on it but am absolutely lost how/where to copy my music to.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance.
Ashkan

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If you can mount it and see it then just drag and drop. Assuming you have the right to do that. Who is the owner?

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Thanks for the comment. I do have permission and access. I can drag and drop but I cannot see which folder I have to copy to. It is not like a clear directory.

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Because these devices are notoriously problematic. By design they are not supposed to work.
Basically you are supposed to get all your music from itunes and it’s all kept in the icloud.
Some device may work to some extent.
But I never owned one and never will

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I agree.

As for the op, this is where you will need a mac or windows.

For drag and drop it is going to be hit or miss in linux.
I did a drag and drop on iphone 5 of an image that I was planning to use as a wallpaper.
In linux I can see it in the iphone folder but in iphone it is hidden, it showed up
after an iphone update. Then I tried again hoping it will work after the update but nope
it didn’t and maybe it will show-up again when another iphone update comes in the future.
Such a long wait for one image file. This is an iphone 5 updated to the latest IOS.8.1.3.

It is an easy one way traffic I guess. You can drag and drop from iphone to linux
no problem, but not the other way.

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Exactly, I can easily drag and drop images from iPhone to my linux but I cannot even find the music I already have on it. I used to be a Mac user but decided to completely switch to linux. Well, it comes with a price :wink:
Honestly, I would like to find a solution in linux rather than do it in my Mac

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You are dealing with proprietary formats. Also they tend to change stuff often, That is the cost of using proprietary software.

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I had opportunity to work with some friends who use MAC and they are beautiful. But honestly, they are so tied to everything in their own little world, the icloud and all that, it’s just crazy. I was downloading a .mp4 video on my Android phone, but their iphone couldn’t do it, didn’t even have the option :stuck_out_tongue:
It seems there is no dedicated storage on the actual phone…

I spent 2 days just, doing a clean install and update of windows for someone. Please… 2 days. I takes me about 2 hours with openSUSE, max.

As it is, I have no trouble using Linux as my main OS and Android with my cell phone.

My Son once bought an iphone. That didn’t last long.

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Heh, you’re right on target.
I am using android too, a samsung galaxy camera with wifi & option for simcard.
Yep it has a 64 gig micro memory exfat card. A handy dandy for my needs
to & fro linux.:shake:

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I absolutely agree with you guys. I used to be in love with my Apple world but decided to burst the buble and see the world from linux eyes :wink:
Mac is great and has very nice programs but as said, it ties you up to Apple products… Time to be slave to no one anymore :slight_smile:

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Trouble is, they also make it an investment that is difficult to just drop…

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No it wasn’t! I just went to the store and bought a Moto X, told the phone company to disable the Apple and enable the Motorola! :wink:

Moving my stuff from the iPhone to the Motorola however was another story. Thank goodness my carrier has a contacts application that I can use from my desktop, with a real keyboard, that will sync with my phone. They also gave me 50 Gigs of cloud storage! Like my phone, like my carrier.

And, speaking of iPhone being different, how about the fact they swapped the location of the comma and period on the phone “keyboard”? I can’t imagine the reasoning behind that.

Bart

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You can get more information from these methods:
Method 1: Using iTunes

  1. Connect your iphone on computer.
  2. Open up the iTunes, and synchronize iTunes with iPhone.
  3. Transfer music from iphone to iTunes, then to computer.
    Method 2: Using iCloud
  4. Set up icloud both on iphone and computer.
  5. Sign in the icloud with the Apple ID
  6. Start to sync iphone data to icloud.
    rotfl!
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I know some phone transfer software which can transfer Music from PC to iPhone. Maybe you can have a try.

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You can transfer iphone data ,like music to itunes .But as well all know that you can not backup messages from iTunes or iPhone to PC directly. You maybe use Email to transfer messages ,but this work is huge .