How to Add Music to iPhone from Computer without iTunes

If you have ever wondered how to add music to your iPhone without extra hassle, you've landed on the right article! In this tutorial, you'll learn a simple trick to help you import music to your iPhone—no need for iTunes, jailbreak, or any additional players. Come on, let me show you!

Listening to music on the go is the most natural thing to do in the digital era. However, Apple still doesn't make it easy for those who would love to learn how to transfer music from a computer to an iPhone or any other iOS device for offline listening.

You can also use the same method to learn how to import music on iPod without iTunes.

Therefore, you have no power to transfer music that 1. isn't compatible by default, 2. wasn't purchased in the iTunes Store.

Also, there's a threat to have all your music & videos wiped out if your iPhone is already synced with another iTunes library.

So, How do you add music to your iPhone?

Luckily, with just a couple of clicks and one smart application, you can avoid extra hassle and transfer music from PC or Mac to iPhone without iTunes and syncing. To get a better idea of how all this works – just watch the video below:

Add music to your iPhone with WALTR PRO

By clicking on the button below, you can download WALTR PRO for free. Go ahead! Download and install it on your PC (it's free to use for 24 hours). You can activate a free trial by requesting a trial code via email during the app startup!

WALTR PRO is the same application whose popularity skyrocketed just a couple of months ago when it was launched. For the time being, it has hundreds of thousands of users. It's an all-in-one data transfer tool that helps you transfer songs to your iOS device without iTunes or any other helping hand apps. This small app makes the iOS transfer of multimedia waaaay easier!

With WALTR PRO, you can:

• import ANY media into native apps like Music, Videos/TV, iBooks
• import music to iPhone and any other iOS device ever created
• add videos, docs, and songs from computer to iPhone with no quality loss
• download & transfer songs or other media from any Mac or Windows PC
• send the whole music playlists or videos to your iOS device
• import music to iPhone with the artwork that you choose or WALTR will do it for you 😌

If you are a music lover who needs a simple way to add music and other media files to iPhone XR, XS, 11, 12, 13 etc., this tool is quite a thing. Here's how WALTR PRO works:

Step 1. Launch WALTR PRO.

It's pretty simple – a window with a minimalistic interface, no additional buttons or tabs. Even though it tells you that it searches available devices through the wifi – go ahead and connect your device to your computer with a USB cord.

Step 2. Connect your device using a USB cable.

WALTR PRO will see your iPhone right away and calculate its estimated free storage.

Just in case you also wish to transfer music files from computer to iPhone wirelessly, WALTR handles this just as easily. Click on the settings wheel at the bottom of the application and select ‘Enable WIFI Connectivity'.

Then, unplug your device and you'll be able to put music on iPhone over the air (make sure it's connected to the same WiFI network), so you can sync music to iPhone.

Step 3. Transfer music to iPhone by dragging it to a drop-zone.

You can also click on "Select Files" to manually navigate to the needed music/video files and move music from computer to iPhone.

Throw any music files in any format into WALTR. FLAC, MP3, M4A – doesn't matter! The app will accept any file you transfer. Moreover, with this app you can also transfer music to iPad. Transfer music from computer to iPod too, with the speed of a racing car. Just go and check if it's there after you've seen the "Done" message.

In our example, it took no more than 30 seconds to copy songs to the iPhone. It was actually the whole album.

If it's a video, it will land in a stock Videos app or TV.app (if you have iOS 10.2); transferring music from computer to iPhone will go to the Music app on your iPhone. PDFs & ePubs will be available from the iBooks app, and you'll find ringtones in the settings app.

The application is pretty intelligent. It sorts out all your files on its own and sends them where they belong!

How to add music to iPhone with cloud services

Sure, it's also worth considering the other available options. Well, of course, you can even use the archaic way, like getting songs from iTunes to iPhone, and it'll work. If you want to try various options before making any decision, read this section below and learn other old but gold ways to get what you want from your Mac or PC to your iPhone. Enjoy! 😌

What apps can I compare WALTR PRO with?

Another option for getting songs to your iPhone is to use cloud services like Google Play Music or Amazon Music. Here, all of your music files are located on the cloud.

First, you upload the files you want to the cloud and then play it on your iPhone using the corresponding app (Google Play or Amazon Music).

The obvious disadvantage here is that you can't use your music store if you aren't connected to the Internet.

Using iTunes to add music to iPhone from computer

iTunes is an app that can be used as a media player, library, or iPhone management app. It is developed by Apple and has a freeware license. There are versions for both Windows and Mac. Used by millions of iPhone users, it's apparently something you should consider downloading.

It can be downloaded from Apple's website. A new version comes out quite often, so you want to make sure that you have the latest version of it. You can check for updates in the ‘Help' section, in case the update dialog box doesn't show up at the startup.

iTunes allows you to manage your music and videos, books, and TV shows easily. We will go through the process of adding MP3 songs from computer to iPhone. We'll assume that you have successfully downloaded and installed iTunes on your computer.

Step 1. Connect your iPhone via USB

Not just an iPhone, but any iOS device will work the same here. iTunes will recognize your device, and you will see the name of the device on the left side (for example “John's iPhone”).

Step 2. Go to the ‘Music' section

To access your iPhone's music, choose ‘Music'. Everything that your iPhone music app can play is listed here, along with all necessary metadata (name, time, artist, album, etc.) and artwork.

Step 3. Navigate to the directory where the MP3 file is located

The music file is somewhere on your file system. Navigate to that directory (open that directory with iTunes also opened).

Step 4. Drag-and-drop

While iTunes is opened on the page where all your iPhone music is listed, drag the file you want to transfer to iTunes. iTunes will recognize that it's an MP3 music file and will start the music transfer. The transfer usually takes just a few seconds, and when that is completed, the song can be played with iPhone or iTunes.

Along with the song itself, iTunes will fetch artwork and all metadata for the given file. In case that artwork or metadata isn't previously set, you can set it here.

Step 5. Right-click on the song, and choose 'Song Info'

A new window is shown, and you can set up all the fields you want (artist, album, etc.) and add artwork manually from your computer.

One of the reasons we love iTunes is that it gives us full control over the files on our iPhones. An alternative to using the drag-and-drop method I described here is to add all necessary files to the iTunes library and then transfer them to the iPhone.

Still got any questions on music transfer?

I could've predicted that! Here are some tips for the most enhanced WALTR PRO experience below. Although the app looks so minimalistic, its functions are far beyond ordinary apps. It's smart, reliable, and worth your attention, so read on about its extra capabilities and get amazed!😛

Where are these songs stored on my iPhone?

All your audio files are stored on the iPhone in the Apple Music app.

Now, you may also wonder about the actual location of stored audio files on an iPhone. That question will probably arise at some point. Unless your phone is jailbroken, the file path to music files is irrelevant and not meaningful.

Just as a fun fact, all of your music files are located inside a folder named ‘Music', which is again located inside another folder called ‘iTunes_Control'.

That is another difference between Android devices and iOS. Generally, a user doesn't need to know all the technical details, like where the file is stored or how the whole file system is organized.

All iPhone users are concerned about how to add music to their iPhone from the computer. There are iTunes and many other alternatives, so I hope this guide gives you an idea of what software will do this task for you.

Little-known hack: fill your Music App with album covers

Due to the built-in content recognition feature, WALTR PRO grabs the artwork from the web on its own. Anyway, if you want a particular picture as a cover, there's a workaround that can make your Apple Music and Videos apps look pretty with no quality or data loss.

In fact, you are free to put any image as the cover for an album or movie your heart desires. But first, make sure that your jpg. file and the file you want to transfer have the same name are in the same folder.

Here's what you need to do:

• Create a folder that includes the song and the album cover you'd like to import
• Rename both files so that they are the same (e.g. Wrecking_Ball.mp3 for the song and Wrecking_Ball.png for the image)
• Drop the folder into WALTR to transfer music from PC to iPhone with any album cover you want

When you open the default apps on your iPhone, the image you put there will be the cover. If you are a Mac user, it will work just fine.

The all-new, shiny, crispy, clear WALTR PRO is coming your way! Its most rumored improvement is WiFi support. Yep, no more USBs and any other wires—copy music to an iPhone over the air.

How to Transfer Music to iPhone in Incompatible Formats

Apple devices originally accept songs in MP3 (a standard music format worldwide, not only on iOS devices), M4V, ALAC, and M4A. But those formats are just part of all the other file containers available for common use.

You may often encounter audio encoded in FLAC, APE (Monkey), CUE, etc. By default, no Apple gadget will play back those. And, of course, iTunes won't recognize them either.

Nevertheless, once you drag them all into WALTR, they will be converted on the fly so that you can play them back on your iPhone using the native Apple Music app. You can now manually manage music with no extra hassle.

This means you are apt to put music on an iPhone without ever thinking if the file format is compatible or using iTunes.

WALTR is a next-gen app since it has just a great amount of features. With WALTR PRO, you can also:

• move music to iPod Classic, Shuffle, Mini, etc. without using iTunes
• transfer videos in ANY format to the default Videos app
• import music and other files to your iPhone/iPad over the air

Now you mastered importing music to iPhone!

Instead of a hair-pulling process of converting and iTunes syncing, you can now easily add music to your iPhone without syncing with iTunes.

With the help of WALTR PRO, you can turn your iPhone or iPad into a perfect device with 100% functionality. Watching videos and listening to music, regardless of format settings, is a big advantage and certainly a useful feature that iOS devices usually lack.

WALTR PRO combines functionality and simplicity in one application. It's the only tool you will ever need to transfer music from your computer to your iPhone, iPod, or iPad… Literally, any Apple device is supported, including the ‘swag' iPod Classics released more than a dozen years ago.

Because it's this simple, anyone can handle it: all that's required is to drag and drop a file into the drop zone. So go ahead and try this solution out, and let me know in the comments how it works!

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