How to sync iPhone music at work & home

[Drizzle84]

Hi peeps,

Is there a program that allows you to sync the iPhone on more then 1 computer?

I can put my music on my laptop at home using itunes, no problem.

When I get to work, my music is greyed out and I cannot put any music on it

I tried media monkey which allowed me to put music on my iPhone @ work but it then messed up all my album art which I spent hours getting perfect.

Please tell me there is some easy to use app out there that will let me transfer music to my iPhone on my work computer.

Im using windows btw.

Cheers

[spazit101]

when u plug it into iTunes just check manually manage music and u should be set

[oldskoolkid13]

is there a way to manually manage videos too? it says music and videos, but when i bring the iphone to the other pc, it wont let me drag and drop any videos...
see im having a similar problem but mine is that i have all my music and apps are on 1 pc n all my tv shows n movies are the other pc....theyre both authorized w/ the same itunes account btw

[dejawoo]

On the machine you want to sync with, backup "iTunes Music Library.xml" and "iTunes Music Library" (Tunes Music Library.itl on PC) to a safe location. These are the files you will be modifying.
1) Find your iTunes Library ID

On the machine your iPhone currently syncs with, open "iTunes Music Library.xml" with a text editor and find the entry between the <string></string> tags, after "Library Persistent ID". Copy this entry exactly to a piece of paper, email, temporary file etc. You can then close this file.

2) Change your Library ID

iTunes stores your library information in two places. An XML file and a binary file. You now need to change the ID in both so they match your other library.

Make sure iTunes is not running.

On the machine you want to sync with open "iTunes Music Library.xml" in a text editor. Again, find the entry between the <string></string> tags after "Library Persistent ID" and copy this entry exactly. This time you can use the clipboard if you wish.

When you have a copy, replace this entry with the one you copied in part 1. Make sure you do not change anything else, and the length of the entry is 16 characters/digits. Save this file and close it.

In the Hex Editor, open "iTunes Music Library" (Tunes Music Library.itl on PC).

Select "Find and Replace" from the Edit menu. Make sure "Hex" matching is selected (not ASCII). In "Find" enter the ID you took a note of in Part 1. In Replace, enter the ID you copied at the start of Part 2. Choose Replace All, there should be one match.

Save this file and close it.

Start iTunes on the machine you wish to sync with and plug in your iPhone. When you select "Manually manage music and videos" you will no longer be prompted to erase your data, nor will the files on your iPhone be grayed out.

Notes

*On the PC you can find your iTunes folder in your "My Music" (XP) or "Music" (Vista) directory. On the Mac it is in your Music directory.

*For the editing part,you can use UltraEdit on pc and a combination of TextEdit/HexEdit on the mac. Any hex editor will do, and you only need to edit files on the second machine.

*After completing these steps you will be able to sync your iPhone with both computers, either by normal syncing or choosing one machine to manually manage your music and videos. Unless you also keep your music libraries in sync,you do not attempt to normal sync the same types of data on both machines.

[oldskoolkid13]

If i could hit the thanks button more than once id probably thank you about 13 times lol. This worked perfectly! Thank you soo much!!

[OLIVERJONES]

A cant get it to work and i followed all the instructions guess am unlucky ooh well thanks anyway.