How to: Copy specific songs to your iPhone

In January 2007 the iPhone was presented in society for the first time. A few months and two firmware updates later, the Apple device has already jumped overseas and European iPhone owners are gradually discovering the little wonders of this excellent piece of technology.

Now, being also an iPod, the iPhone can be connected to iTunes and used as a portable music player with which you can synchronize your whole library. But what if you only want to copy certain selected songs? iTunes doesn’t feature this option and you can’t just drag and drop songs as you did with older iPods. However, there’s a very simple trick you can use as a way around this apparent limitation.

Here it is: create a new playlist in iTunes and name it, for example, “iPhone Sync”. Then start adding new song you this playlist as you would normally do with any other playlist. You may use the Smart playlist feature here to filter your library by artist, genre or star rating.

Once your playlist is done, to the iPhone summary page (the one with the iPhone picture) and click on the Music tab. Here, enable the Sync Music option and then select the “iPhone Sync” playlist you just created.

There you go: your favorite songs will be transferred to the iPhone. The good thing about this trick is that the iPhone playlist can be edited any way you want by removing songs or adding new ones, even if your iPhone is not plugged in at the moment. Any changes you make will be automatically updated on the iPhone as soon as you sync it again with iTunes.