iPhone users or Mac experts HELP!!!

Dec. 4, 2009 | Ronin

[Ronin]

HELP!! I just got a new iPhone and am trying to download music, but it keeps asking for an Apple ID, and I don't have that. All of my paperwork is in Japanese and my reading is not that great.

Any advice is welcome!!!

[FreeLuna]

My friend, you get an Apple Id when you sign up for I-Tunes. You have to create an account. Hope it helps.

[muawiyah]

All your answers are belong us:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/

[randita]

https://myinfo.apple.com/html/en_US/faq.html

[concerned about politics]

I know if you want to load You Tube videos onto an iPod, you have to install a flash file. The flash file can be found through any search engine.

I'll see if I can find something similar for you phone. (Warning - may take a while. We have a dial up. Sigh.)

[concerned about politics]

My friend, you get an Apple Id when you sign up for I-Tunes. You have to create an account. Hope it helps.

Doesn't that limit him to nothing but Apple supplied music? If he wants music from someone else, there might be a problem. This is why an additional flash file is necessary for the Apple iPod video.

[1rudeboy]

All of my paperwork is in Japanese and my reading is not that great.

You have to read it from right to left.

[concerned about politics]

Found this:

If you are new to handheld gadgets entertainment you must know that there are two ways of transferring music to your iPhone. The first one is to connect the iPhone to your computer, and transfer the music that is currently stored in your hard drive. And you can also download music to your iPhone by accessing some large libraries of music that are currently available on the internet. You are going to use a computer for both these 2 ways of putting music on your iPhone. For the first method, you will need a computer to download a software that is going to help you copy the music from your favorite CDs to your computer, and encode it to MP3. One of the most popular software that does that is AudioGrabber. It's easy to use and all you have to do is push a button and you will copy a music CD to your computer. And from your hard drive you will be able to copy the music to your iPhone.

The first step that you can use to enrich your iPhone with lots of music is to transfer the music that is already on your computer. This is one of the shortest steps. All you have to do is use a software called ripper, that is able to copy your music from your cd at a much greater speed than the normal CD playback, this means that depending your you CD-ROM drive speed you will be able to copy a music CD in 5-10 minutes.

One of the hardest ways to get music to your iPhone is by finding a reliable free music download source. For example if you are going to use P2P software you might get caught and install in the same time some spyware and adware, that can cause damage to your computer.

Another way you can download music legally is by using the software provided by Apple: iTunes. This music download software lets you download music from the internet, but you will have to pay for each song that you download.

[Dahoser]

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning.

[CurlyDave]

Doesn't that limit him to nothing but Apple supplied music? If he wants music from someone else, there might be a problem. This is why an additional flash file is necessary for the Apple iPod video.

I have an Apple ID and have no trouble at all loading music from other sources on my iPhone.

Sounds to me like the problem is that he is trying to download music from iTunes for free, and it is something Apple sells. Of course he can't get music there for free.

[HAL9000]

I know if you want to load You Tube videos onto an iPod, you have to install a flash file. The flash file can be found through any search engine.

The iPhone and iPod Touch can play YouTube directly, but they do not support Flash Player, so they can't play Flash FLV-format video files. With some free software, FLV videos can be captured and converted to an iPhone-compatible video format.