When I first bought my Blackberry Pearl, not knowing better, I loaded up Roxio Media Manager and attempted to transfer my music from my computer 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.

One Step Transfers from iTunes Directly 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 media 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.

One of the things I love about iTunes is it's search ability. It doesn't take much to narrow down the music listed to exactly what you want. Then it's a simple matter of selecting all of the music listed and dragging them over to the Blackberry Pearl folder.

I even created a Blackberry Pearl play list on iTunes. Now, when I see media 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 music 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.

So, I've humbly given my wife all the credit for this little discovery. I hope it makes things easier for you. I know it has for both of us. As I move over my media I'm always reminded that my non-technical wife taught me this little shortcut.