You will find your your iPhone/iPod shows up in left column of iTunes. Don't worry about the empty iTunes library, and that's we are adding things to the iPhone/iPod instead of iTunes library. Navigate to the "iTunes 1″ or "iTunes 2″ (depending on if you're on Mac or a Window's machine) folder on your iPhone/iPod and select "Open". Mac: while holding "Option," double click on your iTunes icon. Select "Choose Library." in the "Choose your library" window.ģ. Point the computer's iTunes index to the one on your iPhone/iPod. Mount your iPhone/iPod (via Air Sharing) as an external storage device.Ģ. If the computer you are getting music from is not your home cmputer, you have to repeat these steps again and againġ. Just repeat the above steps if you'd like to sync up to another Windows or Mac computer. By now, we have finished configuring iPhone/iPod. In Replace, put int the ID we copied from the original computer (in our example it's 2817B0BEDC7A2E5F).
In "find" box, input the string we have replaced it in steps 6. Be sure to select "Hex" matching instead of ASCII. Under the Edit menu, select "Find and Replace".
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Now open "iTunes Music Library" in the Hexeditor software (the equivalent Windows file is called "iTunes Music l")ħ. In this case, the string is 2817B0BEDC7A2E5F. Open the "iTunes Music Library.xml," in a text editor and replace whatever between the "string" tags with the text we copied rearlier. After mounting iPhone/iPod, enter the iTunes folder we made earlier.ĥ. Now we are going to modify the config file on your iPhone/iPod. There will be a string of letters and number enclosed in the "string" tag and copy it.(in case you mess up the files, back up it first.)Ĥ.
Locate the "Library Persistent ID" section. Find "iTunes Music Library.xml" and open it in any text editor (TextEdit or Smultron in OS X and Notepad in Windows)ģ. Enter your iTunes music folder on your computer.
Now you have to modify files on iPhone/iPod to make any computer your iPhone/iPod is hookuped to think it can sync contents.