Transferring music from iPhone to Mac

[pudge104]

My hard drive that hosted my 8TB music collection crashed and is unrecoverable. All I have left is what’s on my phone. I bought a new Mac.

Is there any way to transfer the music on my phone, which includes lots of cd uploads, etc, to a new, empty library on my Mac? I don’t want to use sync library, that destroys metadata.

 

[HouseLannister]

iMazing | iPhone, iPad & iPod Manager for Mac & PC

iMazing lets you transfer music, files, messages, apps and more from any iPhone, iPad, or iPod to a computer, Mac or PC. Manage and backup your iOS device simply without iTunes. (was DiskAid)

imazing.com

 

[pudge104]

Trustworthy?

 

[doogm]

Yes. iMazing has been around for a long time.

There is/was an old Mac app called senuti (iTunes spelled backwards) that let you sync from iPod back to iTunes, but that app is 32 bit only and won't work on any Mac OS from Catalina onward.

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

After you take care of this problem, get yourself a full backup system in place to avoid this ever happening again. Apple offers the built-in Time Machine or there's great third party options like Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper. There are many threads about ideal backup systems on this website but if you have questions feel free to ask. Here's the extreme nutshell version...

1. Get at least 2 (TWO) drives, and HDDs are fine for this use.
2. Choose storage equal to at least about 3X your entire internal & external storage pool (all data capacity you would want backed up).
3. Use one of the above mentioned tools to backup your Mac to BOTH drives.
4. Store one drive in a safe location OFFSITE such as a safe deposit box.
5. Regularly rotate onsite and offsite so the offsite drive is always pretty fresh(ly backed up).

Why not just one backup drive (which would have helped you with this loss)? Fire-flood-theft scenarios are likely to take out BOTH Mac and nearby backup drive. That one stored offsite dramatically increases your chance of recovery in about any scenario.

If you have more data than can fit into up to 28TB HDDs currently available, buy yourself 4 big drives and split the backups between them- 2 local and 2 offsite.