Transfering digitalized music from PC to iPhone via iTunes - how?

[Vovin]

Lads and lasses, I need some help.

I found some very old, but great CDs in my cellar lately, Ramones and such stuff.

I converted them now from CD to mp3 and wanted to put them into my iTunes music library and on my iPhone - but it didn't worked, I had no option to sync them onto my device.
I looked into the Apple support pages but didn't found anything about this topic.

Anyone can help me out please, explaining me how I get my music on my iPhone?
Or can you only put music on your iPod / iPhone when you've bought it in the iTunes store?

[cubytes]

hmmm idk....maybe when you ripped the songs they didn't get proper track-listing and are listed as Track 01, Track 02, Track 03, ect...

click on your itunes library in the sidebar and search at the top right for 'Track', it should list all the ripped files that don't have proper track-listing...

then play the tracks and fill in what you know, or use the booklet with the disc, or if you dont have the booklet just use shazam to help manually fill in the track listing...

then hit the advanced menu and click on get album artwork, and if it doesn't find all the artwork do a google image search copy the image and add to the track by right clicking on the track then hitting the 'Get Info" option near the top to bring up another menu where you should be able to paste the image, i think its the last tab on the right if im not mistaken.

then when you have the proper track listing with album artwork set up, it should be easy to create a playlist, drag and drop, or better yet create a smart playlist then go to the iphone page and tick some check boxes, and then hit sync

hopefully that helps :)

[squarezero]

Vovin, what you are trying to do is part of the basic functionality of the iPhone (and all iPods) and iTunes. If you can't figure it out from iTunes itself, go to the Apple website and check the iTunes page.

As a first step, I would re-rip the CD using iTunes -- the default format is AAC, which
is better quality than MP3.

[New England Gamer]

In order for them to be synched they need to be in the Music Folder. It might be as already said - if they are old they might not have the auto tagging enabled and are listed as simply Track 1---x. If you can try to download them again you should get a prompt when you insert the CD saying a CD was found, do you want to download, blah blah. Say yes obviously.

The other place you can look for them is in the Recently Added Folder.

I dunno if that helped.

[MidianGTX]

If you actually want some good quality MP3s and not the shoddy rush job that iTunes provides you'll need this:

http://hiphopiscoolagain.com/secure-cd-ripping-with-exact-audio-copy/

It's pretty lengthy and takes a bit of effort to set up, but if you rip to V0 you're at maximum quality while retaining a reasonable filesize.

[drelbs]

Put the mp3 files in folders by album, then drag the folders to the library part of iTunes.

It'll work better if you populate the mp3 data tags first, else you'll end up with a ton of unknown artist/unknown albums that you will have to fix in itunes.

[squarezero]

If you actually want some good quality MP3s and not the shoddy rush job that iTunes provides you'll need this:

http://hiphopiscoolagain.com/secure-cd-ripping-with-exact-audio-copy/

It's pretty lengthy and takes a bit of effort to set up, but if you rip to V0 you're at maximum quality while retaining a reasonable filesize.
Frankly, unless you're listening to orchestral music, most people will be plenty happy with iTunes' AAC files.

[MidianGTX]

Frankly, unless you're listening to orchestral music, most people will be plenty happy with iTunes' AAC files.

Or have a loud speaker system/good headphones :) I get lots of crackles and hissing on lower quality MP3s and I mainly listen to rock/metal. Hi hats and heavy cymbal work is particularly bad. AAC is fine but not common enough for me, I still need my music to work with programs/hardware that don't support AAC yet.

[drelbs]

Frankly, unless you're listening to orchestral music, most people will be plenty happy with iTunes' AAC files.

Some of the crunchy digital music I listen to produces artifacts if you go with the default AAC or MP3 endcoders - but in general you are correct.

However, Vovin said the files were already ripped to MP3, so this is going off topic...