How to add music to iTunes: three easy ways. How to Add Music from Your Computer to iTunes
It is often surprising that there is no way to download files directly into the gadget’s memory. Because of this, you have to use third party programs. But there is no choice but to learn how to use iTunes.
Is it possible to quickly download music through iTunes?
Why is this a large number of people mistrust iTunes? Everything is very banal - long data comparison does not allow you to download the necessary data, including songs, to the iPhone or transfer it from it at a good speed.
Few people know, but iTunes is not bad at all for downloading music. The program makes it possible to high speed transfer music to any iOS device after applying one single setting, which will be discussed later.
But keep in mind that using this method, you will begin to manually apply your iPhone's media library. And when this function will be turned off, all downloaded music will be replaced with content from iTunes.
How to quickly download audio via iTunes
- In the device settings, find the item " iCloud Photo Library" and turn it off.
- Synchronize required device with the computer and turn it on iTunes program.
- Find and select your phone in the iTunes window.
- Find the "Browse" tab and activate the "Manually process music and videos" section.
- Select necessary music(or entire folders) and move them to the “On My Device” list in iTunes.
Immediately after this, the selected music will be copied to your device. Extraneous data will no longer be synchronized, due to which the time for downloading songs will be significantly reduced. Photo: scheme for downloading music via iTunes This option is much simpler if synchronization of your phone or tablet with iTunes via Wi-Fi is active. Yes, the data transfer speed will not be too fast, but downloading new music without connecting via a wire is much more pleasant, isn’t it?
When first getting acquainted with the iPhone, many users have difficulty performing certain operations. For example, not every user will figure out how to add music from a computer to an iPhone via . Especially if the user has previously used smartphones on Android based and added music simple copying files.
If you also encounter similar difficulties, then this material should help you. Here we will walk you through the entire process of adding music to iPhone via iTunes step by step.
Step No. 1. Launch iTunes and go to the “My Music” section.
If you want to add music from your computer to your iPhone, you will have to install iTunes first. Download iTunes to your computer () and install it. Then launch iTunes and immediately open the “My Music” section.
If you have not added any music before, then you will not have any music compositions in the “My Music” section. This is normal, this is how it should be.
Step No. 2. Add music to your iTunes library.
Next, you need to open the “File – Add file to library” menu (to add only one song) or the “File – Add folder to library” menu (to add a whole folder with music at once).
If you select a folder with big amount musical compositions, the “Add Files” window will open, in which you can monitor the process of adding files to your iTunes library.
Before you start next step, wait until all the files are added to your iTunes library.
Step No. 3. Sync your iTunes library with your iPhone.
After necessary music has been added to your iTunes library and can be synced with your iPhone. To do this you need to use the cable and click on the iPhone icon on the left top corner iTunes. This will take you from your iTunes library to your iPhone's settings.
After clicking on the iPhone icon on the left side iTunes windows An image of your device will appear, and below it a menu with settings. In this menu, you must select the “Music” section, and then activate the “Synchronize Music” function and confirm the action by clicking on the “Done” button, which is located at the bottom of the window. If you don’t want to add all the music from your iTunes library to your iPhone, you can enable the Featured Playlists, Artists, Albums and Genres feature. In this case, you can choose which musical compositions you need to download to your iPhone and which ones you don’t.
After clicking the “Finish” button, another window will appear asking for confirmation. Here you just need to click on the “Apply” button.
After synchronization is complete, the music added to your iTunes library will appear in your iPhone's memory.
What artists does A+ work with?
We are not focused on any particular genre. Our catalog includes Lolita Milyavskaya and Yulia Volkova, and we are currently collaborating with Mana Island. But the majority of our catalog is made up of hip-hop artists. We have been working with Mezza, Rigos, Nel for a long time, last year we released the albums Galata, Jubilee, LSP with Pharaoh and Schokk, and just recently we started working on the Big Russian Boss catalog.
How much money can you make on iTunes?
The main store is iTunes. Those albums that fall into the annual iTunes tops- this is more than 10 thousand copies of sales. There are also those who sell for 20-30 thousand. You can calculate the average revenue yourself if you multiply it by the release price and subtract the aggregator commission ( average price album in iTunes - 129 rubles, average aggregator commission + store commission - 40% -50%, it turns out about 650,000 rubles - Approx. The Flow).
A song that plays on major radio stations for at least six months can earn its author and performer several million rubles on iTunes. It is desirable that at the end of the year it should also be in the top 20 in terms of rotations in the country: that is, that the number of annual rotations on radio in Moscow should reach 10,000 times. This can be monitored using the websites Tophit or Moskva.fm.
The result can be influenced by video content - for example, Big Russian Boss sees an increase in album sales on iTunes after each episode of his show.
How can an artist survive on iTunes money if he's not a rap superstar?
No way. Such artists need to fuel themselves with concerts. Unfortunately, they won’t be able to live happily just on sales of digital content.
There are artists who receive most of their money not even from iTunes or Apple Music. They make good money from streaming their videos. For example, Bahh Tee talks about this himself tweeted recently- and this is the honest truth: I’m sure he can live with dignity from his YouTube channel alone.
Is streaming killing iTunes sales?
When Apple Music came out, iTunes sales dropped by about 30%. The balance between Apple Music and iTunes is just now starting to even out. This quarter, our Apple Music revenue surpassed iTunes for the first time. This happened, for example, with the last album Jubilee. His listeners are young and sophisticated people; they already had subscriptions to Apple Music - it was more profitable and convenient for them to listen to it there.
And since 2017, the popular VKontakte service has legalized tracks - you can download Boom app and listen to the entire audio library on your phone for some little money. Or continue listening to songs in your browser for free, but with audio ads before the song.
This song is from last year's Jubilee release.
How is a promotion done in iTunes and what does it give?
iTunes may give you a top banner, but that's a show-off thing. It’s much more interesting to get into the “New Music” section. Not only because your album immediately becomes visible to all buyers, and then gets into the iTunes summary chart, but also because it is an indicator for all music market professionals: media, radio, television, and so on.
There is a normal application process for all publishers who want to receive a promotion on the iTunes or Apple Music storefront. We send an application to the iTunes editorial office in Russia and explain why the release needs to attract the attention of the audience: what resources will support it? What clips are planned? How many pre-orders are there for the album (this is the most important)? How much money do you plan to spend on promoting the release?
Why Apple Music? The service must constantly attract new people. And a good promotional plan can explain to them that this particular artist will give a link on his social networks and attract people to the service who will pay for a subscription.
I remember when Schokk’s album appeared ahead of time on Odnoklassniki, we were forced to open a month earlier than planned. And all marketing plans naturally fell through. But within the first 24 hours we managed to convince the iTunes editors that this was a release they shouldn’t miss. On the same day we made an appointment, talked, and the next day we had full set promotional options for the release.
Is the iTunes summary chart objective and how to get more views?
Yes, you can sell 100 copies of your track and get to the top of the chart there. But the chart is constantly moving, so increasing your rating is daily work. Buying 100 copies is quite simple: you go into the program, enter 100 emails, click “Buy”, 100 x 20 rubles = 2000 rubles are debited from your card. Not so much large sum, especially considering what you're buying own music and part of the amount will be returned to you. Half exactly.
I wouldn’t say that this is such a widespread practice: hip-hop artists, for example, do this very rarely. How to check if an artist is cheating himself? You can compare the iTunes and Apple Music charts - it’s harder to get listeners there. These charts should be approximately the same: if an artist’s song is in the lead on iTunes, but it is not on the Apple Music chart, draw your own conclusions.
iTunes (top) and Apple Music (bottom) song charts at the time of publication - April 18, 2017
Which artists are labels willing to fight for?
The struggle of music publishers for newcomers is common. Take the T-Fest artist, Phlatline (with whom we collaborate) and Gazgolder tried to build a relationship with him. We made him an offer, he came to Schokk’s autograph session, where there was a huge queue for many hours. After two hours of the session, we realized that our work was over and decided to leave. We leave and see that at some point some people stood in line for Schokk and went to stand in the second line - for T-Fest. At one point, he had about 20 people standing there. After that, there were no questions about whether it needed to be signed.
He went on a mini-tour with Schokk, and ended up signing up for Gazgolder. I see it this way: T-Fest was interesting to Scryptonite as a creative unit. They have chemistry, like LSP and Pharaoh a year ago - when two creative person find each other. And the fact that he went to Gaz is normal: after all, we are engaged in monetization of music, not creativity. And “Gaz” is an ideal creative environment for a young artist who has lit up brightly. Unfortunately, we cannot offer this to the artist.
Newbie T-Fest clip. In two months - a million views
Another example is Husky. I started writing to him after the “Black and Black” video, we talked, but then there was a pause. After the release of “Fool Bullet,” we met again, this time with Dima and his manager, and discussed the contract. After the meeting, we went down to the subway together, where a policeman approached us: “Good afternoon, young people, I am Sergeant So-and-So. You’re a Husky, right?” It turned out that this young policeman was an aspiring rap artist who wanted Husky to listen to his demo.
At some point, Gazgolder got involved in negotiations with Husky and offered a lot of money, then another digital aggregator. In the end, Husky called me and said that he wanted to work with us, but he intended to seriously increase the fee. At that time I convinced my partners that this new star, an explosion, but I understood that he and I would no longer agree: the numbers were too unrealistic. As a result, his album was released by another company - and it streams very well: it’s in fourth place on Apple Music for the third week.
Who can receive millions in advances?
The artist receives an advance from the publisher before the album is released. If I were an artist, I would never be chasing the amount of the advance. It pays off a lot for a long time- and all this time you do not receive royalties, anywhere. Because the publisher must return the money spent. If I were an artist, I would take a minimum advance and get myself Better conditions on royalties (deductions from sales - note by The Flow).
There is also this problem: you got a very large, unrealistically huge advance from the label - and your album failed. The second time no one will give you that much money, and all the professionals in the market will see the situation. More you on favorable conditions You can’t sign a contract with anyone.
The opposite situation also works: if an artist makes money himself at the start, shoots a video, promotes it on social networks - in short, does not sit still - after six months the label is ready to give him a larger advance out of the blue. For example, to do good mastering in America: it is expensive - in our practice, from $280 per track. Or if we see that an album or single is selling well, we are ready to invest money in a video. Let's say, pay half the cost of his filming.
The largest advance we paid was one and a half million rubles. Unfortunately, I cannot name the artist; we signed a non-disclosure agreement with him. I read from you that ATL offered a sum of a million rubles per album. We'd be willing to pay two million for the entire catalogue. Seriously, can we offer him something straight from the pages of The Flow?
For this amount, the artist gives us an exclusive license to his entire music catalog. For a period that we will discuss. An exclusive license is the exclusive right to monetize all existing creative rights. In this case, the artist himself temporarily loses the right to monetize these rights. But he receives regular payments for the entire term of the contract. detailed reports about sales. And your own deductions, of course.
How would we recoup this money? It has its own secrets. For example, just by correctly arranging the position of his catalog on the storefront, you can earn 20% more.
Why does the artist pay a percentage to the publisher?
Some artists do not understand why we are asking for our conditional 30% of all money earned. “Why would I give part of my money to someone if they just put my album in stores?” And here it is important to explain that our work from the moment the content is placed on sale not only does not end, but only begins.
This is the development of a promotional plan, its implementation (including all kinds of seedings and publications, paid and free), communication with radio regarding the rotation of a particular song, placement of clips on TV, work on synchronizing music in various TV shows, serials and movies, advertising.
We also make sure that the rights of our artists are not violated by pirates or other artists. Recently, JEM Publishing deliberately used a verse from the old song Jubilee in the new song of its artist Zamai, and then posted this new song everywhere and started selling. Of course, they did not have permission from Jubilee. After an attempt to resolve the issue peacefully and refusal on their part,
iTunes started operating in Russia in December 2012. We've been waiting for this for a long time. With such a passionate love for the available attributes of prosperity and the need to compensate for one’s poverty, the distribution of the iPhone in Russia is on a gigantic scale and represents a fairly large market.
Despite the fact that according to statistics only 25% iPhone owners in Russia have an AppleID and use the AppStore/iTunesStore, in any case, the market for instant access to music affordable prices very large.
Even if music sales aren't what musicians hope for, iTunes is powerful tool popularization of music and search place new music. Today, standing in a traffic jam, you can find iTunes Store an album by Springsteen or Night Snipers and download an hour of new music over 3G in 10 minutes. Maybe not download, but at least listen to fragments.
So how do you get your music onto iTunes?
In Russia there are still no music distributors that are open to everyone and place songs in different stores under certain conditions. Navigator Records does this for its artists. And getting into their circle is not easy. I asked them if it was possible to cooperate with them purely on placing my music on iTunes. Didn't wait for an answer.
I had to look elsewhere.
I sell my music to iTunes already since 2007. I did this using TuneCore.com
However, we have to abandon him as a partner. It all started there with 7 dollars a year to keep the album in the catalog. But now they have raised the prices to $50. And with my sales this is impractical.
So for Pathless Path I used http://CatapultDistribution.com - they did everything quickly and transparently. But this time with “Prose” I wanted the song titles to be in Cyrillic. In any case, my music is in Russian and the consumer is Russian-speaking. It is logical to bet on the Russian-speaking market.
Catapults did not respond to my letter about the Cyrillic alphabet.
And I remembered the advice of Michael Brandfold, the former marketing director of the group KISS, and turned to the service http://OneRPM.com - as a result, I was able to include a digital booklet (PDF with song lyrics) in the album for free and I received titles in Russian.
Plus OneRPM also places music in ZVOOQ.ru + Music.Yandex.ru - that is, they are focused on Russian market more than others.
The fee for this is 15% of sales to the store and 85% to the artist. It's not that much.
Receiving money via PayPal.
I personally use money from music sales to buy music and strings in stores abroad, since it is not yet possible to withdraw money from PayPal to a Russian bank account. But they promise that it will work in the near future.
The speed of publishing an album in iTunes from the moment the material is uploaded to the OnRPM database is 24 hours.
You pay money only at the very beginning. I personally paid $35 for my mag set. And this is just one time.
Read another interview with Pimenov on this topic.
It used to be every musician's dream to see their CD on the shelves of the local record store (raise your hand if you've ever sold your CD to a store only to see it in the "used" bin). And now iTunes has become a platform where you can distribute your musical creativity. If we talk about the market for digital music downloaded for money, it is significantly ahead of its competitors. Even after Amazon cut prices and launched a new cloud service, iTunes maintains leadership. So we decided in simple words describe the algorithm for selling music through iTunes:
1. First, you need to figure out whether you can work with Apple programs directly. Check out iTunes application. You may not be able to work with it correctly because the requirements for the average unregistered independent artist here are quite strict. For example:
Content requirements:
- Minimum 20 albums in the catalog
- All items for sale must have a bar code (UPC,EAN,JAN)
- All compositions must meet the requirements of international standard code records (ISRC)
2. Don't meet these requirements? Not scary. You can work not directly with Apple, but use an aggregator from the Apple list (you can check it out). These digital music distributors can be used from anywhere in the world. We will talk about two of them - TuneCore and CDBaby. Recently, TuneCore has added new features, which has added to its popularity. After which CDBaby announced significant discounts for musicians who switched to their services. We are offering to you short description and a comparison of each distributor so that you can decide for yourself which one to choose:
· $9.99 per single
· $9.99 per ringtone
· $49.99 per album (regardless of the number of tracks)
Are rights reserved: Yes
Income: 100% deductions (after the store takes its percentage). You can receive money using PayPal systems, EFT (U.S. banks only) or check.
Which stores can sell music: Amazon MP3, Spotify, MySpace Music, MediaNet, eMusic, Zune, Rhapsody, Nokia, Napster, Thumbplay, Amazon On Demand. Additional fee No.
How long does the payment process take:
- 24 to 72 hours for iTunes
- 1-3 weeks for other stores
3-7 banking days for AmazonMP3
6-8 weeks for Amazon on Demand, Spotify and MediaNet.
Subscription fee: adding an album for the first year is $40, each subsequent year $20.
Additionally:
· Apple Network Artist Ping
· iTunes Daily Reports (coming soon)
· Mobile app iTunes (coming soon)
· $59 per album - one-time fee (generally priced at $39 and $20 per barcode)
· $14.95 - one-time fee (same thing - $9.95 + $5 for UPC barcode)
Are rights reserved: Yes
Income: 91% royalties (after the store takes its percentage). It's $0.60 per song or $6.50 per album. You can receive money using PayPal, ACH deposit (for US accounts), or check.
As mentioned, CDBaby is currently offering a 50% discount on subscriptions for those who switch from another distributor. Carefully review the services offered before making a choice.
Which stores can sell music: physical CD, DVD and vinyl sales, iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon MP3, Napster, MySpace Music, Spotify, Liquid Digital, Verizon V-Cast, Nokia, Last.fm, Zune, MediaNet, Tradebit , GreatIndieMusic and Thumbplay. You will be charged one time per album in physical and all digital formats.
How long does the payment process take: two banking days for iTunes and 1-4 weeks for other digital distributors
Subscription fee: no
3. Preparation of musical material and cover
After choosing a distributor, everything else seems quite simple. Simply upload your cover and “link” it to your tracks or album. Songs must be placed in WAV 44.1 kHz 16 bit Stereo format. All this can be done using software iTunes:
- Find a song in your iTunes library and highlight it
- Go to the “Settings” section - “Import Settings”
- In the “Import Using” drop-down menu, select the WAV encoder - Custom
- A new window will open where you can change the sampling frequency to 44.1 kHz, sample size to 16-bit, channel to Stereo.
- Return to the library, right-click on the selected song and select “Create a version in WAV format” (create WAV)
- Transfer the file to your desktop
For cover and design, please upload original images high resolution. These should be square pictures in JPG format, with a resolution of at least 1000 by 1000 pixels.
