I have some music and ringtones on my PC that I want to put on my iPhone and although I can view the directories on the 'phone I've been unsuccessful in finding where to put them and have them show up on the 'phone itself.

Can someone help.

Note: I don't use iTunes.

Thanks

either you use iTunes, or use 3rd party music players to play straight files in Documents Folders ...

but it would not make much sense since Apple deliveres the Perfect solution already free and easy to use.

if you have your collection sorted in sme way .. you can have itunes set to not alter this and just import the music as it is on the filesystem.

Use iTunes. No other way to get this stuff on the iPhone. If you've ever looked at the directory structure on an iPod, it stores all the music in some sort of optimized database-like folder structure. The files are all there but they've been renamed into long numbers. I imagine it might be the same on the iPhone.

As nullX8 said, you can import music into iTunes without copying or moving the data, just drop a folder while holding down alt (I think) - or set the preferences to leave the music where it is and not copy it, and turn off "keep my music organized". Then it's just a view on your music, but doesn't muck with your files.

For ringtones, they need to be in a special format for the iPhone, I am sure there's tons of websites that do the conversion for you. On the Mac I use GarageBand = take any song and make a ringtone from it, then export it as ringtone to iTunes. Or I buy them, yes I am that lazy...

Thanks guys.

Looks like I'll have to look at this iTunes thingymajig then.