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DEMinSoCAL

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Sep 27, 2005
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M1 MBP13, Apple Music app and latest updates.

In Apple Music, there are three albums by same artist that show they are available in Lossless quality.
I have my Preferences set to download the best quality Lossless.

I download all three albums. I look where they were downloaded and see that they were downloaded as .MOVPKG files.
Did a quick search on what that was and understand it's a proprietary Apple format. Fine.

The problem was, it downloaded 2 of the albums in one folder and the other album in a folder called Compilations.
Look in each folder and the files are there, each file icon is a mini version of the album art.

I figured why not copy album #1 into the folder where the other 2 are. So I copied the album folder into the location where the other two album folders are.

When I looked at the files, the icons for the files changed from the album art to an Apple TV icon. If I double-click a song file, it opens in Apple TV instead and does nothing.

Is this erratic behavior a bug or to be expected (and if the latter, why?)

Thanks.
 
The number one rule is not to mess with the files in the Apple Music (iTunes) directory on your HDD.
 
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