When I first bought my Blackberry Pearl, not knowing better, I loaded up Roxio Media Manager and attempted to transfer my songs from my PC to my new phone. I quickly found out the Roxio software was slow and didn’t keep all the artist and song information I put into iTunes. So, when my wife finally got her Blackberry Pearl, I warned her about not using Roxio.

Unfortunately, my wife didn’t follow direction or she got confused or something because she ended up doing something a little different. This is a great discovery I didn’t know about and can only assume many other new Blackberry Pearl owners didn’t know either.

Transfer Directly From iTunes to Your Blackberry Pearl.

This was a departure from what I thought was the best way to move my songs to my Pearl. I had always opened two Explorer windows and transferred the music from my iTunes directory over to my Blackberry Pearl folder. Instead, my wife only opened one Explorer window and then opened up iTunes. That’s when I saw her click and drag music directly from the iTunes program to the Blackberry Pearl folder.

As you know, iTunes is very good at searching and sorting your media so you narrow down what’s listed to exactly what you want. With everything you’re searching for listed, it’s easy to click them all and drag them over.

I even created a Blackberry Pearl play list on iTunes. Now, when I see songs or audiobooks I want to move onto my Blackberry Pearl, I just copy it into that play list and I know it’s there next time I sync up. I just open up the play list and drag it all over. Remember, you can’t drag the actual play list title over, but rather the individual songs inside of the play list. Windows will ask if i want to replace the songs already on my Blackberry and I just click “no to all”. Now I have all the new songs on my Pearl just like a one-way sync.

One of the coolest things about transferring your songs with this technique, is the fact that you won’t lose your album, artist, and title information like you do with the Roxio software. If you want to create a playlist on your Blackberry Pearl, you’ll have to do that on the phone because they won’t transfer in tact.

As for now, enjoy the drag and drop transfers from iTunes to your Blackberry Pearl. Oh, and now my wife gets to claim bragging rights for teaching her techno-geek husband how to do something on his Blackberry Pearl. Humbling to say the least, since shes not really that technologically inclined.

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