How to Transfer Music from iPhone/iPod to External Hard Drive

Many people listen to music with iPhone or iPod in everyday life. It gives us a lot of pleasure. With more and more songs on your device, you may find that there is no more storage space to put new files on your iPhone or iPod. Delete some songs from your device? But all of them are important to you. Then another idea appears in your mind: You can transfer songs from iPhone/iPod to external hard drive! That’s a great idea but how can we make it?

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As Apple users you must know that, if your music is saved to your iTunes account you can go to the iTunes music folder and drag it into an external hard drive; but the music on your device that you download outside of iTunes cannot be transferred easily. On this condition, a professional iOS data transfer tool named AnyTrans can help you solve this problem without effort. Just keep reading to learn more details.

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The Tool You Need

AnyTrans, an easy-to-use iOS content transfer tool is all you need to transfer your lovely songs from iPhone/iPod to external hard drive. 

1. It helps you transfer all or selected songs or playlists to external hard drive without effort.

2. It enables you to put music on your iPod without data loss.

3. It also supports transferring music, videos, ringtones, podcasts and more from iPhone/iPod to external hard drive, to computer, to iTunes and vice versa.

4. It allows you to transfer files between two iDevice freely. You can easily transfer data to new iPhone.

How about give it a try? Then follow the steps below to make it with just 3 steps.

How to Transfer Music from iPhone/iPod to External Hard Drive

Step 1. Launch AnyTrans > Connect your iDevice to computer > Plug in your external hard drive. Click the button at the right.

Step 2. Click on Audio on the homepage > Choose Music.

Step 3. Choose Music and click Send to Computer button.

Step 4. Select the music you want to transfer > Click on To Computer button > Choose your external hard drive > Choose a folder to save the music > Tap Open.

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The Bottom Line

As you can see, AnyTrans can be your good helper in transferring music from iPhone/iPod to external hard drive. So why not give it a try? You can leave a comment or send us an if you have any questions on this guide or AnyTrans. We will write back to you as soon as possible.