How to transfer files from laptop to iphone 7 question? Help please

[stupidhead]

Hello folks. In my journey of audio I have gone from AM radio in 60's as young boy, through FM, vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD etc..... and over the more recent years collecting audio files of varying formats on laptop and backup storage devices. I have also been a slow conversion with phones etc. but have recently been nudged into getting iPhone 7 by my wife (who is savvy) for a variety of reasons, mostly for the network of it all as she has had iPhone for a while, has ipad and imac pro. Now I have iPhone 7 with big storage but no interest in storing on cloud. Or transferring bit by bit on cloud or dropbox. I just want to be able to play tunes from Bluetooth to car audio or Bluetooth speaker device.

To date I have had android devices and have easily been able to populate the storage with files directly from laptop to phone through usb.

wait for it

am I missing something or is it impossible to direct transfer files? it appears you must use iTunes and synch on icloud? the vast majority of files I want on phone is not in iTunes, as a matter of fact I don't even have iTunes on this laptop! or at least I didn't but have now downloaded and installed. I can't see a way to populate my new iTunes with the saved music files either!

I have 256 gig of storage and I don't see a way to load it up......help!

 

[Johnny 007]

Off the top of my head, and assuming ITunes hasn't changed lately, Ithink you can get your music onto your phone. First, you Have to have iTunes installed on the laptop. Then, you need to move all the music files into your iTunes library. Once that is done, you sync the phone to the computer and the music should be copied to the phone.

 

[Mitkraft]

There are alternatives. There are other music playing apps that you can get and they each have various transfer mechanisms. Here are your choices:

Put iTunes on your computer, point it at your music library and use it to copy tunes to your iPhone. You will also be using the native music app on the iPhone which retains features like voice control and such.

Alternatively you can use at least one other app that I know of to move music (and other file types actually) via wifi or sync cable and still retain the native app for playback. The software I've done this with is Waltr but it has some glitches. I used it to copy and transcode FLAC files to the phone since the native app doesn't support FLAC (but they are transcoded loselessly).

Finally you can find another music app from the app store that supports your file type and has an alternative transfer method.

I don't believe there is a way on a non-jailbroken iPhone to manipulate files in and out of the file directory like you would on a PC or Android.

 

[stupidhead]

Hi folks, thanx for the feedback. I have become quite frustrated by this and just can't help but think there is a simpler way to do this.

Is there a way to convert FLAC to ALAC? I will gladly spend a few bucks on a program for that but after some "googling" this topic is very misleading.

 

[Frankie's Market]

Coming in late to the party, I use WALTR2. I used to use itunes, but I really don't use a cell very much. I did want to have some portable music to plug into the car audio without running back and forth with my Fiio. What I did was purchase WALTR2 . WALTR2 lets me take flac files and do a quick drag and drop into my good old ipod and off I go! Is it without glitches? well pretty much, it's not perfect but it does maintain the lossless files and I can listen to tunes in the car or working around the house, etc. Anyone else try WALTR2?

 

[Mystic]

Is there a way to convert FLAC to ALAC?

dBpoweramp Pro -- IMO, it's the best application in the business for "managing" and "manhandling" of the myriad "audio codecs" out in the ether. There are other apps but nuthin' w/ the power, capes, and simultaneous "user-friendly" aspect of DBP.

 

[Mystic]

^^^ Past that, I feel for ya man: when I was resigned to using Apple crap (two nano devices and two iPod "classic" devices used - and used up -- in a space of 4-5 years), I absolutely loathed iTunes, worst piece of (cr)app ever IMO. I made the effin' thing work, but w/out having dBpoweramp Pro on hand I'd still be loading (music) data onto those devices, that is, had any of the respective hardware(s) lasted so long, heh heh. But I learned my lesson, emerged from the murk of Apple, embracing Android for telephony and SANSA DISK for portable music player (ahem, SANSA supports FLAC) roughly five years ago and have never looked back.

Best of luck (sincerely) in dealing with/handling/putting in order the Apple hardware and software, iTunes in particular, in your possession.

 

[Mystic]

^^^ P.S. in the interest of full disclosure, I did fare much better when, for the span of two years, I was (for work-related field research use) obliged to use a MAC Powerbook (I forget which "number" or OS, butIIRC, it was a "2010 build", so maybe the "snow leaopard" OS era?). In any event I learned to manage/manhandle that laptop fairy well and even taught it to run utorrent, convert FLAC to ALAC (and back), and perform a few other "audio tricks" that were, @ the time, of use to me.

(fine print: however, @ the first opportunity to trade in the MACBOOK for a Lenovo laptop, I grabbed the Lenovo and that was that re: Apple et moi)

 

[Judas Priest]

"To date I have had android devices and have easily been able to populate the storage with files directly from laptop to phone through usb."

I think that´s the answer to your problem

edit: typo

 

[toxcrusadr]

^^ I think you can actually do that with an iPhone. I have an iPhone 5 (yep no kidding) and I've transferred photos from the phone and - I believe - music to it through File Explorer from my laptop.