Here's an adventurous lil' adventure. A tutorial showing how to set up Apple iTunes in Linux via WINE, including reasons why you should not do this in the first place, command-line phone pairing instructions, iTunes installer choice, 32-bit versus 64-bit version, program sign-in and 2FA, unsuccessful local MP3 song collection device syncing attempt, Windows functionality comparison, various possible issues and errors and necessary workarounds, preferrable use of KDE Connect and VLC for music management, and more. Enjoy. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-itunes.html Cheers, Mrk
Been a long time since I used iTunes. I am definitely glad my family has all switch to Android. What I remember of iTunes back then was trying to "sync" my wife's iPhone to Windows using iTunes. If you wanted to put music stored on the PC on the iPhone, it moved rather than copied. So music on the PC was moved to the iPhone or vice versa. You couldn't enjoy your music on both. Maybe they fixed that. Could be I was doing it wrong. It was an exercise in futility.
Weirdly enough, when you do have your iPhone connected to iTunes, you cannot access the files from the Files app from the iPhone. It only sees certain apps that allow transfering of storage. But there is a workaround. The VLC app creates a VLC folder in the Files app. So if you want to access files in the Files app from your PC, you can move them to the VLC folder and they will show up in iTunes under the VLC app. This also works the other way around: Copy files from your computer with iTunes to the VLC app, and they will show up on your iPhone in the Files app inside the VLC folder.
