Transfer iPhone songs to iTunes

How to copy iPhone / iPod Touch contents to iTunes, including iPhone playlists

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Update: this tutorial is compatible with all iPhone and iTunes versions, including iPhone 4S and iTunes 10.5

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This is a request I received repeatedly: "How to transfer iPhone songs, playlists, photos, videos, artist, album, album artworks, podcasts, audiobooks, date added, last played, default volume, start stop time, contacts, games, applications, and other iPhone settings to iTunes?"

Well, that's a lot of different stuff, but all of it can be retrieved / recovered in one

import from iPhone to iTunes

For this, we'll need another program from the

Suite:

itself

First, let's download it from here

Installation instructions

Transfer iPhone to iTunes

Once the program is properly installed, we just need to select the songs we want to

transfer from iPhone to iTunes

Select song for copy to iTunes

Then, hit "Backup to iTunes"

Choose music selection for iPhone import to iTunes Library

There are loads of import options depending on how you want to

copy iPhone to iTunes

, the way you want your songs to end up in folders and sub-folders on your computer, how their names should look once the

iPhone copy to PC computer

is complete, etc

iPhone to iTunes import advanced options

For now, we'll stick to the default settings that work great in most cases and hit "Start" to launch the iPhone backup

A couple of progress bars show up during the iPhone / iPod Touch copy operations. I recommend you don't touch anything until the copy is finished and limit computer activity

Once

iPhone sync

/ iTouch synchronization is complete, you can contemplate your iPhone data imported to iTunes, including songs, playlists, photos, videos, artist, album, album artworks, podcasts, audiobooks, date added, last played, default volume, start stop time, contacts, games, applications, and other settings

Here you go:

iPhone songs imported to iTunes refill recreate

iPhone songs imported to iTunes refill recreate

Can you believe it is that easy to

rebuild iTunes from iPhone

/

repopulate iTunes from iPhone

Pretty neat, uh?

In case you didn't download

yet, you can get it from here

I am Mike D and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please link to it so others can enjoy it too !