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Ubuntu version is 14.04. I'm tryin to transfer music with Clementine/Rhytmbox. Transfer looks like complete, files are on device and i can play them from ubuntu. Problem is that the phone can't see the music. Have any suggestions, how that can be fixed?

upd. Also tried VirtualBox with Windows 10 installed & iTunes. Song menu has no option to transfer music.

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closed as off-topic by Rinzwind, Ravan, Eric Carvalho, Fabby, David Foerster Dec 28 '15 at 14:47

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"Problem is that the phone can't see the music" I would ask this on a apple related forum like apple.stackexchange.com What you state here tells me that on the Ubuntu side there is nothing wrong ;) – Rinzwind Dec 24 '15 at 14:05
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Apple in its infinite wisdom has decided that any iOS device needs to have music added in a special way in order for it to show up. You need iTunes or some other special way to do it, but since this is off-topic, I'm going to leave it up to the people over at Ask Different to tell you how. – TheWanderer Dec 24 '15 at 14:07
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Run the below command in terminal after connecting your phone to your PC.

sudo ideviceinfo -q com.apple.mobile.iTunes -k DBVersion

If it turns out DBVersion>4, you are out of luck. Any device with DBVersion>4 can not synchronize Music/Video with libimobiledevice library. It'll show up like the transfer is done, It will occupy your phone memory, but won't show up in your music app AKA Apple Music

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