How do I sync iPhone 4 in rhythmbox? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

Ubuntu has never been iPhone friendly. Your best bet is to install VirtualBox with Windows XP and install iTunes.

Solution 2:

I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and syncing music to my iPhone through Google Play Music. It's working very well. Google Play has an Ubuntu music manager you can download at https://play.google.com/music/listen#manager_pl. Using this application, I uploaded my entire iTunes library (up to 20,000 songs are free). Then I installed the "Melodies" app on my iPhone to stream my music. I like this app because it lets you save songs to your iPhone for offline listening. Tip: Newer iTunes songs (.m4a files) are DRM-free, so they can be easily uploaded to Google Play. Older iTunes songs (.m4p files) have DRM encoding and have to be converted first. To make the conversion, I burned these songs to a CD using iTunes (be sure to check "Include CD Text") and then imported them back into iTunes. There are other options to convert songs, but this was the easiest since I didn't have very many.