Transferring itms purchases from iPhone

I was playing with the itunes store on the iphone and decided to purchases an album, easy enough. I then connected the iphone to the computer to grab the songs. My iPhone is not set to sync music, I manage my music manually, and I could not drag the songs from my iphone to my itunes.

Now I know that if my library was set to sync it would happen automagically but it isn’t. And if I now set it to sync, everything on the iphone would be wiped and I would lose my just purchases songs.

Anyway, it is really easy when you know how. Right-click (CTRL-Click) on the iphone icon in itunes and hit “Transfer Songs”. That’s it, itunes will go and grab any purchased songs from you iphone that are not in your itunes library.

Personally I think it is dumb to hide this behind a right click, but there you have it.