One question. With the new Itunes 9, there is this new functionality called "home sharing". So if I purchased an application or game, then I can share this with another iphone or ipod touch is it?

Anybody knows how I can copy back all of my mp3 from my iphone to itunes. Before I only drag and drop mp3s from my windows explorer to itunes. I do not use the sync function for my music collection. I do not have any backup of the mp3s on my pc because after I've done the cdrip and transfer my music to my iphone I delete all copies. I hate to have to do cdrip on all my cd collection all over again. It is near 4GB, maybe more.

The reason I need to do this is I need to transfer my music from my old iphone 3G to my new iphone 3GS. Any suggestion appreciated.

@tinkerbel

I am afraid if I sync, I will loose all the mp3s like last time. That is why I use the drag and drop method. This is because I do not save my music in my laptop (limited hard disk space).

Are there any freeware softwares to do this. I just need to copy the music files one time so I don't think I want to buy the software.

Cdripping takes time and effort which I hate to do again. I've done it 2 times already. Itunes graciously remove all my music from iphone after I delete the music files from my laptop hdd so I had to rip again.

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Added on November 16, 2009, 10:55 pmBTW I have both iphones with me now. Can I connect them both to itunes and do a transfer? I have rename both devices to have separate names.

This post has been edited by gyver: Nov 16 2009, 10:55 PM

Thanks tinkerbell. Will try it.

My cd collection is huge, and I store full albums on my iphone that is why I need the 32GB phone

I tried searching for Synergy but found out that it only supports Mac, no Windows machine support.

A one promising software to access file manager for iphone without jail breaking is http://i-funbox.com/ I can access all my photos and the mp3s but the music are not in the format that I want. There are all scattered in coded directory and filenames so I am glad to report that I just sync and itunes delete all my musics, so back to square 1. Here I go again ripping my cds

Oh yeah, and I am happy to report that my music collection was 12GB++ and not 4GB as mention earlier, which is just roughly half of my cd collection. I only rip to VBR and not apple lossless format becuase of the limited 16GB space.

Anyways thanks again for trying to help. My next question is, if I buy a network drive or a usb external hard disk for that matter, can I store my music in the hard drive and setup itunes to sync to music from over there. But that would mean that I have to connect the drive everytime I sync right?

This post has been edited by gyver: Nov 17 2009, 08:40 AM

@saksoba

Ok, I'll try that after I buy an external hard disk this weekend.


@tinkerbell
Nope... I checked the actual size of music as registered on itunes on the old iphone 3G before I delete all of them. I don't have backup copies anywhere. It's ok... I'll just to do the ripping... 3 cds down... hundreds more down the road.... hehehe...