For several years, mobile phones have transformed from conventional means of communication into gadgets that replace game consoles, books, video and audio players. And if not so long ago, music could simply be downloaded from Internet sites and installed in the device, indicating the path for placement, then now that the phones have found full-fledged operating systems, making it a little more difficult. So, for its smartphones, Apple suggests initially installing iTunes on the user's computer, with which you can add videos, e-books and music to the smartphone’s memory. This software only at first seems difficult to understand. How to add music to iTunes, how to transfer from the program to iPhone or iPod? These and many other questions are asked by users when they first met Apple's file manager.
How to add music to iTunes
Filling playlists with audio files is pretty easy. Apple offers three options for this:
- Download songs from a CD.
- Buy albums from your favorite artists on the iTunes Store.
- Add songs to the software from the computer’s hard drive.
In order to use the first option, the user just needs to insert a DVD or CD into the drive and start iTunes. How to download music so that it is reflected in the playlist, the program will prompt automatically. If this did not happen, then the user needs to go to the "File" menu, select the line "Add file to the library." Then in the explorer specify the path to the CD. If you want to download all the compositions, then they must be selected using the Shift key, and then click on the "Open" icon. All selected files in a few seconds will be added to the playlist. Separate songs from the disc are also loaded, they are only marked with the Ctrl key held down.
If the computer is connected to the network when transferring files to iTunes, the program will automatically find information about the artist and album name. This will, of course, only happen in the case of a licensed CD.
Music from the iTunes Store
IOS devices can be populated with various media from the Apple store. It is called the iTunes Store. The user will find answers to many questions using this service and iTunes: how to drop music, how to add movies, e-books, applications, and much more to the gadget. The iTunes Store contains quite a variety of content - for every taste, interest and age. At the same time, the store offers both paid and free media files.
Find music on the iTunes Store
The user can go to the Apple store from iTunes, in which there is a special button with the same name for the service. To use it to download music, the device owner must go through the registration procedure on the official website. And only after that the iTunes Store button will become a working tool in the program.
After clicking on the icon with the name of the store, iTunes will ask you to enter the Apple ID and password in the form. If the data matches the previously entered during registration, the program will provide access to all content on the site.
To find a specific artist or song, you can use the “Search in store” field. If you type in it, for example, the name of the group, then iTunes will find all the files available in the service and containing that name. A pleasant moment can be considered that you can download not only collections and albums, but individual compositions. Immediately in the program there is an opportunity to listen to part of the music file before making a purchase.
Select and Download
But let's not get distracted by the question of how to add music to iTunes? So, the file is found and selected. Now the user needs to pay attention to the column with the name "Album". After clicking on the name of the collection, the program will open a window with information about the selected file, including its price. In further actions iTunes is itself a good explorer. That is, as soon as the user clicks on the "Buy" button, the file manager from Apple includes a wizard, which will prompt the course of further actions.
Music from computer
The question of how to add music to iTunes from your hard drive has the simplest answer from the proposed options. The owner of the iPhone is enough to run the program and go to the "File" menu. Then select the line with the name “Add file to the library” and in the explorer specify the path to the selected composition. Having marked all the songs, the user only needs to click the "Open" button. All songs after that will be in iTunes.
Music added to the program can then be played directly with it or transferred to Apple’s gadgets. But not only that makes iTunes a convenient software. Its connection with the iTunes Store allows the user to get information about the artist, album title and much more.
Whichever way you choose to add music to iTunes, the subsequent work with this program in the future: organizing files in it, distributing songs by artist names, album names, and much more is a very comfortable and exciting experience.
Finally, it is necessary to make a reservation that all of the above applies only to users who have a computer with the Windows operating system. For Mac, iTunes has a slightly modified File menu.