[macvoiceover] Re: iPhone - Sync Problems

So is Airport Express hardware or software?
Thanks,
Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 5:04 PM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: iPhone - Sync Problems
> 
> Airport is the Apple brand name for their WiFi hubs and music
> bridges.  The Express is great if used mostly as a music bridge and a
> little extra WiFi power.
> On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> 
> > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is an airport express?
> > Donna
> >
> > On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
> >
> >> 1. Go to a Best Buy store or newegg.com.
> >> 2. Find a really huge hard disk that supports either USB 2 or
> >> Firewire 800.  This should cost about $150 if you go to the two
> >> terrabyte size.
> >> 3.  Make a partition for your music collection on the disk after
> >> you get home or it arrives from UPS.
> >> 4.  Move all of your songs to the big disk.
> >> 5.  Follow the instructions on the Apple site for moving a music
> >> library within iTunes (the iTunes notion of a "library" is actually
> >> a set of XML files that tell iTunes where to find the actual music
> >> but there is a very specific order, detailed on the web site, one
> >> must follow to make sure that iTunes finds your music.
> >> Fortunately, none of the steps can destroy your music files so
> >> mistakes, while frustrating, aren't terribly hazardous.
> >> 6.  Assuming you have a wireless home network, set both computers
> >> to look for and present shared libraries.  This will let you have
> >> the big external drive on one Mac and it can be seen by everything
> >> on your network, including, of course, an iPhone.
> >> 7.  Take your entire CD collection and re-rip all of it into either
> >> Apple Lossless or FLAC formats.
> >> 8.  Go to audio Nexus (www.audionexus.com) and pick out a killer
> >> new stereo that need only include an amplifier and speakers.
> >> 9.  Buy an Apple Airport Express, set it up and run the RCA cables
> >> into your new amplifier.
> >> 10.  Tell iTunes that you want to play through your Airport Express
> >> instead of the computer's speakers.
> >> 11.  Enjoy the best sounding music you've ever had in your home.
> >>
> >> Happy Hacking,
> >> cdh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 31, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Steve Hurd wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> I had simlier issues when I tried to sync my iphone.  I also have
> >>> another question.  When I try to synk my music it said the library
> >>> on my iphone will be replaced by the library on my macbook.  There
> >>> are no songs on my new macbook so if it replaced it iot would
> >>> replace it with nothing.  My substantial question therefore is how
> >>> do I copy or sync the music on my iphone and move the songs to my
> >>> computer?  Do I use the import library function?
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>> On 30/07/2009, at 5:23 AM, Chris Hofstader wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I do not know if this is an iPhone, an iPhone/VO, an iMac or an
> >>>> iMac/VO problem.  Last night, for the first time, I synchronized
> >>>> my iPhone with our iMac 24.  I selected not to look at ring tones
> >>>> but did elect to change the library with which the iPhone was to
> >>>> sync with.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the iPhone settings dialogue in iTunes, I changed a few things
> >>>> (almost all in the Music tab) and let the process start.  After a
> >>>> while I would get an error that a program that I think is called
> >>>> Mobile Services  Helper (or something very similar)  had exited
> >>>> unexpectedly, "Ignore, Send to  Apple, Restart," which reminded
> >>>> me an awful lot of "abort, retry, ignore" back in the DOS days.
> >>>>
> >>>> I then went to the software update menu item in iTunes (after a
> >>>> few restarts) and found that I had not updated iTunes, Safari and
> >>>> a handful of things I didn't care much about.  I let the
> >>>> installation procede and the Mac, as expected, restarted.
> >>>>
> >>>> I reattached the iPhone and iTunes, as expected, came up.  A
> >>>> standard sync resulted in the same process crashing.  Then (after
> >>>> a few more reboots), I started eliminating options to isolate the
> >>>> problem.  In iTunes, when things seemed hung, I saw in the LCD
> >>>> space that it was synchronizing Contacts.  I unchecked contacts
> >>>> from the sync list and everything started to acted as I would
> >>>> have expected and a ton of music moved onto my phone but the
> >>>> contacts on my phone did not populate the empty Address Book on
> >>>> the iMac.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.  I'm not important or
> >>>> useful enough to sign up for MobileMe as its cost outstrips the
> >>>> usefulness of near immediate synchronization.
> >>>>
> >>>> Happy Hacking,
> >>>> cdh
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