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So I've already decided I'm replacing my iPhone 4S with a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, but until I can actually do so I'd like to at least be able to listen to music on the damned thing.
I have about 5GB to 5.2GB (depending on who you believe; the phone or iTunes) of music on there, the problem I'm having... Well, there's a couple:
- Music I buy from my computer will auto-download maybe all but two (randomly selected) tracks to my phone and refuse to download the other two, even if I attempt to manually download it - the progress bar goes, gets to the end then just... Does nothing at all. Resetting does fix this sometimes, though.
- Music I buy sometimes gets downloaded a few times. Like, for instance, Joan Baez - Rare, Live and Classic; at 60 tracks it's a pretty hefty album but on my phone it reports over 110 tracks. Yet the weird thing is that it's not synced twice, a lot of tracks are only on there once but some have four or even five copies!
- Music randomly disappears. Yesterday I was listening to Johnny Cash - At San Quentin on the train, today only three tracks were present, the phone has been on the entire time and hasn't synced with my laptop since I last listened.
All this is kind of making me wonder what on earth is going on. The phone is admittedly over two and a half years old so maybe it's just that the storage has died as old flash storage tends to do, the OS is 7.1. I'm now trying to delete all the music on there so I can just re-sync my 'iPhone' playlist and turn off all the auto-download stuff as it's really not worth all this hassle, but guess what? It won't actually delete my music when I tell it to delete my music! Oh, hang on, no... iTunes reports there's still 5GB, the phone reports there's 5GB, the music app is still full of music but none of it actually plays, it just goes from one song to the next really fast. Exactly like how old iPods used to act when their hard drive died! Good to know some things never change.
As an added bonus, about 4GB of storage was being used by 'other' data. It turned out 2.6GB of this was for the 8.1.1 update that I've told it to not download at every available opportunity. This is why I'm replacing it with an Android because I just don't want to deal with this crap every weekend. This is a shame because up until I decided to buy some music recently it has been a great phone, the best I've ever owned for sure, but it's as if a 'play dead' switch inside it just flipped a couple of weeks back so now I want to launch it out of cannon and into the sun.
So, any suggestions please?
Edit: Grr.
So I finally managed to delete all the music from my phone, then in iTunes I told it to only sync my iPhone playlist. I figured this would sort it out, but now it has:
- Duplicates of all but one album I've bought recently, the one being right in the middle of the rest so it's apparently nothing to do with chronological order, all of them are on the iPhone playlist too so that's apparently not it either...
- Only two out of 31 tracks from the Johnny Cash album I mentioned, the rest are all (predictably malfunctioning) download links.
If I go to my iPhone in iTunes and click on the playlist under 'on this device' so that it should show me only what's on the phone, all of the stuff that's duplicated is only listed once. Oh and it also features a load of music that I used to have on the playlist but removed a while ago, so that's also nice.
So apparently if you buy the music and have it automatically downloaded to your phone, then you delete that version and copy a playlist with that song on it, it'll put it back on there twice... Except sometimes it'll not do that and work fine, sometimes it'll only do two tracks and leave the rest off.
Well, at least they're making the decision to switch to Android super easy for me right now!
I have about 5GB to 5.2GB (depending on who you believe; the phone or iTunes) of music on there, the problem I'm having... Well, there's a couple:
- Music I buy from my computer will auto-download maybe all but two (randomly selected) tracks to my phone and refuse to download the other two, even if I attempt to manually download it - the progress bar goes, gets to the end then just... Does nothing at all. Resetting does fix this sometimes, though.
- Music I buy sometimes gets downloaded a few times. Like, for instance, Joan Baez - Rare, Live and Classic; at 60 tracks it's a pretty hefty album but on my phone it reports over 110 tracks. Yet the weird thing is that it's not synced twice, a lot of tracks are only on there once but some have four or even five copies!
- Music randomly disappears. Yesterday I was listening to Johnny Cash - At San Quentin on the train, today only three tracks were present, the phone has been on the entire time and hasn't synced with my laptop since I last listened.
All this is kind of making me wonder what on earth is going on. The phone is admittedly over two and a half years old so maybe it's just that the storage has died as old flash storage tends to do, the OS is 7.1. I'm now trying to delete all the music on there so I can just re-sync my 'iPhone' playlist and turn off all the auto-download stuff as it's really not worth all this hassle, but guess what? It won't actually delete my music when I tell it to delete my music! Oh, hang on, no... iTunes reports there's still 5GB, the phone reports there's 5GB, the music app is still full of music but none of it actually plays, it just goes from one song to the next really fast. Exactly like how old iPods used to act when their hard drive died! Good to know some things never change.
As an added bonus, about 4GB of storage was being used by 'other' data. It turned out 2.6GB of this was for the 8.1.1 update that I've told it to not download at every available opportunity. This is why I'm replacing it with an Android because I just don't want to deal with this crap every weekend. This is a shame because up until I decided to buy some music recently it has been a great phone, the best I've ever owned for sure, but it's as if a 'play dead' switch inside it just flipped a couple of weeks back so now I want to launch it out of cannon and into the sun.
So, any suggestions please?
Edit: Grr.
So I finally managed to delete all the music from my phone, then in iTunes I told it to only sync my iPhone playlist. I figured this would sort it out, but now it has:
- Duplicates of all but one album I've bought recently, the one being right in the middle of the rest so it's apparently nothing to do with chronological order, all of them are on the iPhone playlist too so that's apparently not it either...
- Only two out of 31 tracks from the Johnny Cash album I mentioned, the rest are all (predictably malfunctioning) download links.
If I go to my iPhone in iTunes and click on the playlist under 'on this device' so that it should show me only what's on the phone, all of the stuff that's duplicated is only listed once. Oh and it also features a load of music that I used to have on the playlist but removed a while ago, so that's also nice.
So apparently if you buy the music and have it automatically downloaded to your phone, then you delete that version and copy a playlist with that song on it, it'll put it back on there twice... Except sometimes it'll not do that and work fine, sometimes it'll only do two tracks and leave the rest off.
Well, at least they're making the decision to switch to Android super easy for me right now!
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