Syncing Music and Audio Books
The iTunes preferences give you two separate tabs for transferring your audio files to the iPhone: Music and Podcasts. The iPhone must be connected to the computer and showing in the iTunes window. Click the iPhone icon when you see it.
To copy over the music and audio books you want to take along on your phone, click the Music tab in the main part of the iTunes window. Next, turn on Sync Music. Now you need to decide how much music to put on your phone.
If you have a big iPhone and a small music library, you can opt to sync "All songs and playlists" with one click.
If you have a big music collection and want to take only some of it along for the iPhone ride, click "Selected playlists." In the window below, turn on the checkboxes for the playlists you want to transfer. If you don't have any playlists yet, flip back to Chapter 10 for instructions.
Audio books, like music videos, already live on their own self-titled playlists. Click the appropriate checkbox to include them in your sync.
Making It All Fit
Sooner or later, everybody has to confront the fact that the iPhone holds only 4 or 8 gigabytes of music and video. (Actually, only 3.3 or 7.3 gigs, because the operating system itself eats up 700 megabytes!) That's enough for 800 or 1,800 songs or so—assuming you don't put any video or photos on there.
Your multimedia stash is probably bigger than that. If you just turn on all "Sync All" checkboxes, then, you'll get an error message telling you that it won't ...
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