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Copying Music from an iPhone to your Mac

June 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in iPhone

It’s no secret, I love my iPhone. But sometimes it seems like Apple just does things to piss me off. Take for example the fact that you can only sync music from a single computer to an iPod/iPhone. There is no way to copy music from multiple computers to your iPod, and no way to get that music from your iPod to your computer. You can’t even play music from a connected iPod through iTunes unless it’s the single machine you’re syncing to.

This is rediculous. I assume it’s to prevent piracy, but it’s the most asinine copy protection I’ve ever encountered. I mean, they already have DRM, and there’s nothing preventing me from copying my music from iTunes onto a flash drive and then onto another computer, so how exactly does it protect the industry to prevent me from using my iPhone as my main music library? Fair play my ass.

If you’re using a mac then the beta version of Senuti (http://www.fadingred.org/senuti) will transfer music from your iPod or iPhone and add them to iTunes on any machine. It sucks that you have to get a third party app to do this simple task, but it seems to work and it’s very easy to use, if a little slow to copy.

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