Sync iphone with mac and pc?

[ric1287]

Anyone know of a way to sync (well, manage music/videos really) with a pc and mac? It was possible before but I think iTunes 9 broke it.

I just want to be able to put music/video on the iphone from those 2 systems, everything else I sync with google.

 

[dlock13]

What do you mean it broke? Like you were syncing the library from the PC and the library from the Mac to your iPhone? If so, I thought all versions of iTunes only allowed you to sync one library at a time to one device for piracy/DRM reasons. That's why you can't sync your iPod to your friend's library and vice versa.

Unless, of course, I'm completely wrong. Is it saying anything to you about that? I just always thought you couldn't. Anyway, someone let me know if I was wrong and what I'm thinking about compared to what he's asking for. Haha.

 

[ric1287]

well there was a hack where you would get the ID from one itunes and hex-edit it into the other itunes and you could manually manage stuff, but apparently something changed in ver. 9.

http://www.andrewgrant.org/200...or-more-computers.html

 

[Eagle17]

This was the big reason to leave apple.. I like the design of the hardware but the software can be maddening. I was trying to sync my nano with a macbook pro and 2 other pc's.

I have no drm protected content yet whenever I would try to sync it would say the nano is unformatted and ask me to format it.


anyway I ended up installed windows 7 on the macbook pro and buying a zune hd to replace the nano...

I hope they fix this in the future because apple makes great hardware that I would love to use.

cheers,
John

 

[Eagle17]

wow I need to change my tag! I havn't had that system since 2002.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: Eagle17
This was the big reason to leave apple.. I like the design of the hardware but the software can be maddening. I was trying to sync my nano with a macbook pro and 2 other pc's.

I have no drm protected content yet whenever I would try to sync it would say the nano is unformatted and ask me to format it.


anyway I ended up installed windows 7 on the macbook pro and buying a zune hd to replace the nano...

I hope they fix this in the future because apple makes great hardware that I would love to use.

cheers,
John

In your situation it was in fact a formatting issue. If you formatted the Nano on OS X, then it could not read or written to in Windows.

 

[SnipeMasterJ13]

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Eagle17
This was the big reason to leave apple.. I like the design of the hardware but the software can be maddening. I was trying to sync my nano with a macbook pro and 2 other pc's.

I have no drm protected content yet whenever I would try to sync it would say the nano is unformatted and ask me to format it.


anyway I ended up installed windows 7 on the macbook pro and buying a zune hd to replace the nano...

I hope they fix this in the future because apple makes great hardware that I would love to use.

cheers,
John

In your situation it was in fact a formatting issue. If you formatted the Nano on OS X, then it could not read or written to in Windows.

Maybe only if it's formatted initially on OS X? I formatted my nano on Windows XP initially, and have since been syncing with my MacBook from work since it has all my most current stuff on it. I didn't have to reformat it or anything. It actually connects to iTunes 9 and shows it's formatted for PC, but still updates my playlists, etc.

I wanted to do the hex edit to my home machine, but iTunes is literally useless. It won't upgrade because it errors out, and it won't let me install a fresh copy because the current one won't uninstall. I tried manually deleting everything, but there are a few folders that will NOT delete. I can rename and move them, (this allowed me to install v.8 awhile back) but now I'm stuck on that version as it still won't upgrade, or do anything. And it's SLOW, so I stopped using it completely. I don't want to reformat my whole machine because of one program.

Now I do everything strictly through my Mac.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: SnipeMasterJ13

Originally posted by: TheStu

Originally posted by: Eagle17
This was the big reason to leave apple.. I like the design of the hardware but the software can be maddening. I was trying to sync my nano with a macbook pro and 2 other pc's.

I have no drm protected content yet whenever I would try to sync it would say the nano is unformatted and ask me to format it.


anyway I ended up installed windows 7 on the macbook pro and buying a zune hd to replace the nano...

I hope they fix this in the future because apple makes great hardware that I would love to use.

cheers,
John

In your situation it was in fact a formatting issue. If you formatted the Nano on OS X, then it could not read or written to in Windows.

Maybe only if it's formatted initially on OS X? I formatted my nano on Windows XP initially, and have since been syncing with my MacBook from work since it has all my most current stuff on it. I didn't have to reformat it or anything. It actually connects to iTunes 9 and shows it's formatted for PC, but still updates my playlists, etc.

I wanted to do the hex edit to my home machine, but iTunes is literally useless. It won't upgrade because it errors out, and it won't let me install a fresh copy because the current one won't uninstall. I tried manually deleting everything, but there are a few folders that will NOT delete. I can rename and move them, (this allowed me to install v.8 awhile back) but now I'm stuck on that version as it still won't upgrade, or do anything. And it's SLOW, so I stopped using it completely. I don't want to reformat my whole machine because of one program.

Now I do everything strictly through my Mac.

Well yea. If it was formatted in Windows it would be using FAT32 almost certainly, and that can be read/written to by most all desktop OSes.