Update - Apple can kiss my ass.
The Easus MobiMover utility transfers music (and other) files from PC to iPhone 15 with ease:
See
https://mobi.easeus.com/phone-transf...over-free.html
Tried the free version - easy peasey, even for someone with no patience with computers.
It's free for 10 transfers per day. There's 26GB stored on a PC hard drive, so that wasn't going to work.
So I paid $23.95 for one month of the pro version. You can specify that you don't want to renew at the end of the month (will see if that radio button actually does something).
So far today I've transferred about 18GB of music to the 128GB hard drive on the iPhone. The software transcodes to MP3 format on the fly.
So I can listen to this music anywhere, don't have deal with iTunes or stream from Apple Music. The whole concept that I'd be willing to pay $10.99/month that can only be used if I have good cell reception or WiFi is incredibly stupid. An MTB buddy tries to do this with Pandora on a Galaxy and has big time problems losing the signal.
There's been a few hiccups along the way. Mostly with the way I've cataloged some source files (like STS9 shows). Example - the artist field of source file has to be populated, otherwise it shows up on iPhone as a single song with no attribution...
I didn't try to organize playlists on source drive and transfer en masse to the iPhone.
So, once again, Apple can lick my balls and eat my asshole
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