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music library

  1. Mainyehc

    Music.app's “Recently Added” view completely borked by Apple in Sonoma

    I'll keep it short: apparently, Apple has deliberately turned “Recently Added” view, a heretofore useful feature for perusing your library in chronological order like you would, say, your Photos.app library, into what is essentially a glorified “Recents” stack for albums, having capped its...
  2. L

    How to Migrate MBP mid 2012 El Capitan to M1 MBP? With itunes library to music app transfer. Please help!

    How to Migrate MBP mid 2012 El Capitan to M1 MBP with itunes library? Please help! Hey guys, I would really appreciate your help on this, as its a multi stage process. First of all the mid 2012 MBP has glitchy graphics. Not really from heat. As it's always has air underneath it. New glitches...
  3. N

    Apple Music How to sync Apple Music playlists/library located on external hard drive between Macbook Pro and iMac

    Hello people. I hope I can find answers to my problem here. Here is my situation: My music library is located on an external HDD. I have manually created playlists in Music app on a Macbook pro and I want to have those same playlists show on my iMac when I plug in the HDD to it. Bypassing the...
  4. TightLines

    Music Library Management/Player

    What has everyone found to be the best overall iTunes replacement? Apple can take their music app and streaming service and sell it to who ever is buying, but I am looking to find a replacement for what they have abandoned… I have a library that i need to manage and would like to continue to...
  5. haralds

    Apple Music Revert Music Library from Big Sur 11.5.2 to Catalina10.15.7

    Music libraries were compatible until 11.3 arrived. What is the best way to revert a library handling a shared disk from the latest Music to Catalina. 1. Start new, 2. Import all tracks, 3. Sync to iCloud ?
  6. spencecb

    Apple Music Upgrading existing library to Lossless and Atmos in Apple Music...

    Hi all, I had a question about upgrading my library to the new Lossless and Atmos formats, as long as they are available in the new formats. I have been replacing so many of my existing albums by adding the "new" album from Apple Music into my library and deleting the "old" version of the...
  7. timmbe

    iCloud Music Library not fully syncing across all devices

    Hello, I have around 40 GB of mp3 music files on my Macbook in iTunes. As I'm also an Apple Music subscriber, I want to have the best of two worlds on my synced iPhone/iPad. I recently turned on iCloud Music Library on my Mac to have access to all my mp3 music files initially stored onto...
  8. L

    no music transferred on restore from backup

    restored from backup from iphone 6 to iphone 7. everything restored except my music library. any insights as to why, how to transfer music library? wouldn’t library be backed up along with the rest?
  9. FalwinHorison

    New to mac and some of my mp3 files are not readable on mac.

    Hey guys, I have just bought a new mac and i'm a pc user, i copied all my music albums from my pc to my ext hard drive and then copy it to my mac but i notice that some of the songs are not readable on my mac and i check my hard drive from my mac finder and some of the songs are gone but when i...
  10. J

    Music app: Downloaded album

    so since i updated to ios 10, theres just one album that says downloaded and i dont know why because i dont have apple music since like 2 months and all of the another albums doesnt says anything just that album had the downloadede big button that annoys me, anyone knows how to fix that?!
  11. G

    Star Ratings - workarounds or time to move on?

    First, I want to acknowledge that star ratings are not for everyone. If you are okay with two indicators for music tracks (Loved, Disliked) then this topic is not for you. I have spent many years building my music library (15+ years, 15,326 songs, 9,382 rated). Star ratings have been the key...
  12. cjh123

    icloud music and playlists issue

    hello all! my phone got stolen so i got a new one, plugged it into my mac, and it restored it back to my old phone perfectly EXCEPT none of my music. usually when youre in itunes, you can select certain songs/playlists to upload onto your phone but theres not even an option to let me do that. I...
  13. V

    With revamped Apple Music is iCloud Music Library still necessary for offline listening?

    Hi there! On the WWDC-Keynote there was a lot of talk about how many changes there were coming to Apple Music. My question to anyone who has the iOS 10 Beta installed, is it finally possible to download songs from Apple Music for offline listening without having to activate the iCloud Music...