Sharing and syncing song data

Anytune remembers all of your settings including tempo, pitch, gain, pan, EQ, and Reframe for each song.  Your annotations including marks, loops, notes and lyrics are also included in Anytune’s "song data" or Configuration.

You can save your Config (song data), for all or a single song, to the  |   Anytune Cloud or a file (<backup>.atcfg) and share it across your devices or with your friends.

Anytune does NOT save your song audio files to iCloud, it only saves the Config.

Syncing Music: Apple provides two ways to sync your Music Library across your devices:

1. Turn on Sync Library with Apple Music
2. Sync your iPhone, iPad, or iPod using your computer (USB, WiFi)

You can also Import files directly into Anytune. See Sharing songs across devices.

Sharing works like a backup and restore. First you backup your Config, then you restore the Config to "matching'" songs on your same or different device.

1. The song's Title, Artist and Album must match the Config exactly.
2. The song's audio file must be available to Anytune to restore its Config.
   Anytune will look for a match in your device's Music Library and at imported songs.

The Configs are saved to and restored from the Anytune  Cloud. Automatic backups are saved when you quit/background Anytune and before you delete a file. Anytune keeps the last two backups and the last hour, day, week and month.

Stay Synced: Sync (and download) the same songs to all your devices and restore the Config on your target device:
1. Tap 
2. Choose <latest-backup>
3. Restore All.

If you have imported songs directly through Record, Dropbox or Open-In, you will need to export them from the source Anytune to save them to target Anytune.

See Transfer (restore) song data to a new device to copy everything, songs and config, to your new device.

Backup Config

  Backup on iPhone/iPad to iCloud:

1. In the player view, Tap  Cloud (Tap  to reveal share on iPhone)
2. In Export to iCloud:
   Choose "All Song Settings" or "Current Song Settings"
3. Enter a name in the "Save As" box, and Save
    Note: Backups are created automatically so this step is optional

  Backup on iPhone/iPad to file:

1. Tap Sharing 
2. Tap Share Song Settings and Marks
3. Choose "Current Song" or "All Songs"
4. Choose "Email" or "Open-In"
5. Tap Share via Email/Open-In and Send Email or Choose destination

  Backup on Mac to iCloud:

1. In the Tunes view Click > Export to iCloud... OR
   Anytune Menu > File > Config Export > Export to iCloud...
2. Choose "Current Song" or "All Songs"
3. Enter a name in the "Save As:" box, and Save
    Note: Backups are created automatically so this step is optional

Backup on Mac to file:

All songs:

1. Click Anytune Menu > File > Config Export > Export to File...
2. Enter a name for the file in the "Save As:" box, choose a location and Save
   The file(<backup>.atcfg) is created at your chosen location

Single song:

1. Click Anytune Menu > File > Export Song Settings...
2. Enter a name for the file in the "Save As:" box, choose a location and Save
   The file(<backup>.atcfg) is created at your chosen location

Exporting Text

On Mac: You can choose to Export your config in a human readable text format. Select "txt" for Format and a <backup>.txt file will be created. It will look like:

Name : Time Slows Down
Artist : Anytune
Album : Anytune's Greatest Hits

Audiomarks
1. 00:06.512 : Intro
2. 00:32.561 : Verse
3. 01:35.514 : Chorus
...

Restore Config 

Config files (<backup>.atcfg) are first added to Anytune  using the same procedure used to import a song (audio file). See Importing songs and configs.

When a Config is selected you will see an availability state for each song;  🟢 "Imported", 🟡 "Importable", or 🔴 "Not Found" in the Cloud view. You cannot Restore a Config for a song that is  "Not Found".

  Restore on iPhone/iPad from iCloud:

1. In the player view, Tap  (Tap  menu to reveal share on iPhone)
2. Choose the desired backup file. You can tap a backup to see what it contains
3. Tap "Restore All Above" OR Select the desired song and tap Restore

  Restore on Mac from file:

1. In the Tunes view Click  >Import from iCloud... OR
   Anytune Menu > File > Config Export > Import from iCloud...
2. Choose the desired backup file. You can Click a Backup to see what it contains
3. Click Restore All OR Select the desired song and Click Restore

Staying synced

If you are making Config changes on two devices that have the the same songs:

On the target device: 

1. On the target device: Tap  or  
2. Choose the "Latest Backup" from the source device where the last changes were made
3. Tap Restore All Above

Troubleshooting

Anytune uses iCloud to backup your config files and to share them across devices. If your backups are not being saved to Anytune Cloud try to reset your iCloud connection

On iOS/iPadOS:

1. Restart your device.
2. Sign-out of your AppleID on your device and Sign-In again. 

Example

Sharing your data without using iCloud (e.g Trial Mac version to iPhone)

Backup on Mac to file:

1. Click Anytune Menu > File > Config Export > Export to File...
2. Enter a name for the file in the "Save As:" box, choose a location that is accessible to your phone like iCloud or Dropbox and Save
   The file(<backup>.atcfg) is created at your chosen location

Import the Config file like it is a song file: 

1. Open Anytune
2. Go to the Tunes Category  .
3. Tap the green plus "+" button to reveal the Add menu.
4. Choose "Files Picker" or "Dropbox" and import the <backup>.atcfg into Anytune
   It is now available in  Anytune's Cloud

Restore on iPhone/iPad from iCloud:

1. Tap  (Tap  to reveal share on iPhone).
2. Choose the transferred backup file
3. Tap Restore All Above OR Select the desired song and tap Restore