Hi
Ripping a CD on my PC - set up to sync with my phone. Itunes removes all other tracks from phone. Now lost loads of music,
Just can't work out the difference between Apple Music and Itunes Libraries. And how to rip a cd and get it on my phone
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Original Title: Apple Music/Itunes/CD Ripping
iPhone 16, iOS 18
See Recover your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device - Apple Community. The easiest method may be a temporary subscription to the Apple Music service, merging the music on the device into an iCloud Music Library which you then download to a computer and backup for security.
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The library on the PC is used as the master library. When syncing, anything not in the library or not selected for syncing will be removed from the device being synced.
Your iTunes library on the PC needs to contain everything on the iPhone, otherwise the content on the iPhone that does not exist in the library on the PC, get’s removed from the iPhone.
Apple Music is an app. It can hold a music library just like iTunes can. On a PC, Apple Music can replace iTunes as your music manager. There is no operational difference between an Apple Music library and an iTunes library. They work the same way.
If you choose to use the Music App to manage your library, then you need the Devices App to sync music to your iPhone, but the function remains the same, you still need your full library in the Apple music app on the PC. Otherwise anything not in the library on the PC gets removed from the iPhone.
The Apple Music app additionally lacks the ability to actually Rip CDs so it’s not really useful here.
thanks - that kind of makes sense, but the question remains (I think). I have ripped CD's into iTunes - how can I get the phone files into itunes, and then Sync the whole lot (including the ripped CD's ) back on to the phone?
As mentioned by Turingtest, you will need to sue a 3rd party app to extract the music from the iPhone and recreate the library on the PC, so everything is there.
If the library on the iPhone is already gone, then there's nothing to do.
If it still there, you can extract it and create your master library on the PC as explained in the link provided by Turingtest.
How do I rip a CD and sync it to my iPhone without losing existing music?
