{"id":5268,"date":"2013-01-05T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=5268"},"modified":"2013-01-05T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T00:31:36","slug":"itunes-music-not-syncing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/itunes-music-not-syncing\/","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Music Not Syncing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my wife was having problems syncing music from iTunes to her iPhone. She had a playlist that would sync successfully to her iPad mini but would not copy to her iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>We tried all sorts of things, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deleting the playlist off the iPhone and copying it back,<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12px\">reconnecting the iPhone,<\/span><\/li>\n<li>restarting the iPhone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end, I figured that maybe iTunes had the wrong end of the stick in terms of understanding what the iPhone already had on it so we did the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 12px\">backup up the music in the playlist (<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">this is important!<\/span><\/strong>),<\/span><\/li>\n<li>deleted the music from iTunes (and also from the iTunes library folder on the hard drive),<\/li>\n<li>copied the backup copy of the music back into the iTunes library folder,<\/li>\n<li>dragged the recopied music into iTunes,<\/li>\n<li>initiate the sync to iPhone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That worked a charm for us but goodness knows if there is more music in her library affected by the same problem but at least we now have a solution to fix it.<\/p>\n<p>Damn you, iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my wife was having problems syncing music from iTunes to her iPhone. She had a playlist that would sync successfully to her iPad mini but would not copy to her iPhone. We tried all sorts of things, including: deleting the playlist off the iPhone and copying it back, reconnecting the iPhone, restarting the iPhone. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/itunes-music-not-syncing\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,100,616,18],"tags":[10,1982,17,364],"class_list":["post-5268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipad-apple-technology-technology","category-iphone-apple-technology-technology","category-itunes-apple-technology-technology","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ipad-mini","tag-iphone","tag-itunes","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iTunes-Logo.png?fit=512%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}