7.6/1.1.3 Update brings Manual Media Management to iPhones

Lol...
That was possible also in 7.5 with a small trick :)

YES!

TO ME, THAT'S THE HIGHLIGHT OF MACWORLD!

Is it me? Seems like it, where in the world is the option to manage my music on my iphone???????

Just wanted to throw in a heads up, iTunes 7.6 also adds iPhone support for Windows x64 :willynilly:

http://rutechyet.com/tech-news/itunes-for-windows-x64/

Well, this gives me some hope then.... thanks! =)

@Alex

Do you mean it didn't erase anything at all on your iPhone, not even your music? When I did it, it erased all of my music, podcasts, videos, but not any of my photos, address book data, calendar data, etc.

Also, when I plug my iPhone into any other computer, I can't even double click a song to play it - everything is dimmed.

Running iTunes 7.6 on MBP and Windows XP. iPhone is 1.1.3. Originally synced to MBP.

Then I checked the manually manage button, it did ask if I minded everything being erased, I said OK, but it didn't erase the phone. Since then I've been able to drag songs to and delete songs from the iPhone on MBP (btw, the star ranking still syncs b/w the iPhone and MBP).

Also, tried connecting the phone to WinXP machine. Was able to at least see the songs on iPhone IN ITUNES, and double click on them to play through WinXP machine's spearkers. It also tried syncing my Podcasts at that point, but I just canceled. Since then, I've connected the phone to the MBP and synced it numerous times w/o problems, also adding some songs and ringtones I created in Garageband.

So, it seems that you can at least connect to two different machines. I guess the jury is still out on whether you can load the iphone with music from two different machines; but nothing last night led me to believe that I couldn't copy music from the XP machine onto the phone, I just didnt think to try.

Not sure why other people are having problems. I am a little confused as to why, every time I've checked and unchecked the "manual management box" (which I've done a few times on my MBP, it told me that my phone would be erased (or something like that), but that it never actually erased it.

So I updated my iPhone to 1.1.3 and iTunes to 7.6, then checked off 'Manually manage music and videos' in my iPhone's prefs. Next it told me my iPhone was synced with another library and asked if I wanted to erase the contents of my iPhone and sync with this new library (note we have 3 computers in my house - one of which it was synced to for music, and one for data - the other is my wife's computer). I did this, and was left with a nice empty iPod which I happily started manually dragging music to to fill back up.

I then took it to another computer in the house to test with, and when I plugged it in there it would not let me manually manage my music (and yes this computer was updated with iTunes 7.6). I looked at the iPhone's prefs on this machine and the 'Manually manage music and videos' box was unticked. I tried ticking it and once again it told me it was synced with another library and asked if I wanted to erase the contents of the iPhone and sync with this new library. No I don't thank you.

Is anyone else experiencing this behavior or is it just me? I hope to god it's just me, and if so I will attempt to do a complete restore and hope that fixes whatever the problem might be.

I don't understand the point of "Manually Managing Music" when you can only manage it from where your primary itunes library is, unless you don't mind losing your music because you had to sync it with a Library at work, or wherever, that doesn't have your music on. I don't know if having fw1.1.3 resolves this (can anyone confirm) but a 1.1.2, itunes 7.6 and "manually mange music" doesn't work as it should. At this stage I personally find this a useless feature.

forget my last comment, i think i figured it out!