Way To Transfer Music from iPhone to Mac

One of the most infuriating thing about Apple's music

devices - its wonderful iPods and iPhones - is their rigid

approach to syncing. You can sync music from a single PC or

Mac very easily and intuitively using iTunes, but transferring

music in the other direction seems to be impossible.

If you've got a playlist on the iPhone you can export it in full

to iTunes on your Mac; alternatively you can select

individual tracks and export them to iTunes or a folder of

your choice.

Why does Apple stop you from doing this using native

software? It's intended to discourage piracy and as a

courtesy to the record labels who work with iTunes. After all,

if you've bought songs on your iPhone through iTunes, you'll

be able to download them to your Mac from iCloud. If you

bought the CD, you can just take that into work. But it is

annoying that you can't do this without downloading third-

party software.

Many people say that it is hard to transfer music from iPhone

to Mac, because of iTunes' limitation. But actually, it can be

very easy once you find a practical iPhone to Mac Music

Transfer - Coolmuster iPad iPhone iPod to Mac Transfer. It

empowers you to copy iPhone music to MacBook Pro,

MacBook Air and iMac effectively. With it, you can use all

your music files for any purpose as you like.

How to Transfer Music from iPhone to Mac?

Step One: Find Your Device's Music Folder

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need a free

program called iPhone Explorer to do this. Just download it,

install it, and start it up. Look under User > Media >

iTunes_Control > Music in the left sidebar. This is where your

music is stored.

If you're on an older iPod, plug it in and start up iTunes. Click

on the iPod in the left sidebar and check the box that says

"Enable Disk Mode". If you're on a Mac, you'll need to show

hidden files using this terminal command, while Windows

users can open up Windows Explorer and click on the iPod in

the sidebar. If you don't see the iPod_Control folder, go to

Organize > Folder and Search Options and hit the View tab.

Click the "Show Hidden Files, Folders, and Drives" radio

button and hit OK. You should see a folder called

iPod_Control show up, in which you'll find all your music.

Step Two: Open Up iTunes

The iPod_Control folder houses all your music, but its in a

cryptic and hard-to-understand file structure. This doesn't

matter, since we're just going to transfer all of it directly into

iTunes, and iTunes will sort it out for us. Open up iTunes and

head to Edit > Preferences (or, on a Mac, iTunes >

Preferences). Click the Advanced tab and make sure both

boxes are checked on this page—both to Keep the iTunes

Media Folder Organized and to Copy Files to iTunes Media

Folder. This will ensure that iTunes copies all that music to

your computer and renames all your songs for you.

Step Three: Drag, Drop, and Wait

Lastly, just click on "Music" in iTunes' sidebar, select the

"iPod_Control" folder inside iPhone Explorer, and drag the

"Music" folder from the right pane into the main iTunes

window. It should start copying all of your music over into

your library, and when it's done, you should have everything

restored. Note that this method does not restore playlists,

videos, or podcasts; you'd need to use one of the other

specialized programs to do that (though you can always just

re-subscribe to podcasts manually, they're free anyways).

So as you can see, using iPhone to Mac Music Transfer

program, you can transfer music from iPhone to Mac as easy

as 1-2-3. Furthermore, this tool is not only compatible with

all models of iPhone, but also support all iPad and iPod.

Thus, you also can use it to backup your iPad and iPod data

on Mac as well as iPhone.