[macvoiceover] Re: iPhone - Sync Problems

Thanks!
Donna

> -----Original Message-----
> From: macvoiceover-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:macvoiceover-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Poehlman
> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:29 PM
> To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [macvoiceover] Re: iPhone - Sync Problems
> 
> sorry:
> http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/
> 
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> 
> 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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