Comments on: How-To: Sync iTunes Playlists With a BlackBerry

By: James

James — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:02:47 +0000

I’m the IT director for a mid sized company in Canada. I migrated our corporate smart phones to iPhones shortly after they came out with the 3G. It has been, all and all, hassle free and the users love them. But when I have users going abroad, I miss the Blackberry’s low bandwith use. 1 MByte DOES NOT equal 500+ text email on the iphone.

By: J.Daniels

J.Daniels — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:54:15 +0000

Wow Terry, what a condesending tool. I have had both and Bberry is much better for emails. Besides, it sounds to me like you need to be on some IT forrum since you know, you ahem, “work for a very large, very well known” software company.

In the words of Christian Bale….. “Oh, well good for you!”.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:19:23 +0000

Will purchased music from the iTunes store play on a BlackBerry? (Bold 9700 to be exact)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:17:44 +0000

Will purchased music from the iTunes store still play on a BlackBerry? (Bold 9700)

By: martin johnson

martin johnson — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:59:15 +0000

as a user of both iphone 3g & 3gs i can say that they are both fantastic phones with excellent features & now i have changed to the blackberry bold 9700 simply because of battery drain & i can definately say right from the start that i cant fault its use, yes its not as fun or fantastic as the iphone but the thing is – if you are not next to a wall plug all day & dont work at a desk then your phone will surely suffer heavily after a good 5-6 hours with push actvated where as the bb deals with such in a ‘whatever’ kind of manner!
on a whole the blackberry is a clear on the move buisiness winner but hands down the iphone has miles more to offer & better connectability & sync possibilities.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:43:48 +0000

As a followup to my earlier comment…
I’ve been running the latest beta of DoubleTwist which includes automatically updating iTunes playlist. Been stable so far for me, no issues.
http://forums.doubletwist.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=7330

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:24:30 +0000

Me too! And sadly, yours and Luis’ are the first I’ve heard of anyone else with the issue (much Googling, searching RIM’s forums, etc). I’ve completely given up on their Mac DM – it simply sits there at 200% CPU usage even when idle.
For what it’s worth, I haven’t had much luck from doubleTwist (looked promising, but another CPU-eater, and focused on using its own Library rather than iTunes’), or iTuneMyWalkman (yet… still trying to get this to work) either. I’ve also tried/used MarkSpace’ Missing Sync, but that eventually stopped working and I couldn’t fathom paying $40 to upgrade to their v.2 when all I want is to synchronize a playlist or two.

By: blitzmr2

blitzmr2 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:31:42 +0000

Unless you’ve thoroughly used a BlackBerry–and even then, sometimes not until you’ve gone away from BlackBerry to something else–it’s hard to understand. They are a bit “archaic,” but they work, everything makes sense, they are efficient and focused, and email is a marvel. I went from BB for 2 years to Android–back to BB 3 weeks later.

Anyhow, working on sync options for window for my BB as well (which is how I found this blog).

Cheers!

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:09:13 +0000

I have the same issue. Any solutions?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:46:07 +0000

I have a Blackberry, but am having problems with my itunes. Many of the songs are protected and can only play on an Ipod or I-touch. I am only able to download half of my playlist to my device, the other half has media licensing issues and is locked out.