Note this guide can be used to synchronise any mp3 player or mobiles but we are focussing on Series60 phone.
I just hate installing multiple media player, jukebox’s and pc-suites in my laptop to synchronise with various devices, especially using the Nokia PC Suite. Thats the reason i wanted to use iTunes itself to synchronise with my nseries phone.
The list of N Series phones can found at the main site.
- First we need S60 phones that can be connected to the PC as USB mass storage. Most of the newer S60 phones, such as Nokia N71, N80 and N91, can be connected as USB mass storage. You can check whether you phone support mass storage or not very easily. Plug-in your phone to the PC. If you see a dialog that has “Mass Storage” option (or “Data Transfer” in some other phones), then your phone is on the list…
- You need Apple’s iTunes. I assume that you must have iTunes already installed on your PC now because you are reading this blog….
- The last thing is the most important one, i.e. iTunes Agent. It is an open source project that enables us to synchronize any USB mass storage device with iTunes.
Start of tutorial
- Connect your S60 phone to the PC as USB mass storage.
- Run iTunes Agent. You should be able to see iTunes icon in Windows task bar (near clock).
- Open Windows Explorer and create a new file in the root folder of your memory card. Choose a unique name, for example “iTunes_N73″. This file will be used by iTunes Agent to recognize your S60 phone. You can choose any name.
- Now we have to configure iTunes Agent so that it recognizes your S60 phone. Right click iTunes Agent in the Windows task bar and select Preferences menu.
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In the Name box, enter any name that you want.
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In the Synchronize pattern box, choose the directory structure you want to have, i.e. iTunes, Artist Folder or Flat.
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In the Music folder box, choose the directory you want to store your files. If you don’t choose anything, like in my example, it will be stored in the root directory.
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In the Recognize by folder/file box, enter the unique file name that you have created in the previous step. In my example, it is “iTunes_N73″.
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In the Associate with playlist box, enter the playlist that you want to synchronize with your S60 phone. In the example here, I use the same name as my device name, which is “Nokia N73″. You can, of course, create your own playlist from iTunes and change it again later from this dialog.
- Now you are ready to synchronize. Copy your music files or podcasts to your playlist. As I said earlier, you can copy your files to any playlist you want. Just remember to change the preference in the iTunes Agent.
- Start synchronization, right click iTunes Agent and then select Synchronize devices menu
Notes:
This can be done on a mac using SyncTunes
You will need Microsoft .NET Framework to for this work incase its not already installed on your computer
