I'm working on a 2020 suped up iMac.
I have several old iTunes libraries that I transferred some time back to external drives. I'd like to transfer them to the new Music app. However, when I copied them to the hard drives, the OS seems to have removed the library extension or changed something internally and when I try to open them in the music app the app treats them like they are a folder and will not import the libraries. As I search through "choose library" when trying to open the library, it just opens them as if they were a folder. The folders contain all the subsidiary files put there by iTunes, but Apple music doesn't seem to be able to make sense of them.
Applecare has been clueless. they don't even seem to be able to differentiate between Apple music the app and the subscription service. They have given me all kinds of mis-advice like it must be that the music files have copy protection. None of them do. They have all been ripped from CDs that I bought or are music files I recorded myself and, anyway, the Music app doesn't recognize the library and doesn't even get to the stage of opening a music file where it would check for copy protection. Some of the music files I actually bought from Apple.
Is there an extension I need to add to the filename to get this to work? Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks,
--Kenoli
I have several old iTunes libraries that I transferred some time back to external drives. I'd like to transfer them to the new Music app. However, when I copied them to the hard drives, the OS seems to have removed the library extension or changed something internally and when I try to open them in the music app the app treats them like they are a folder and will not import the libraries. As I search through "choose library" when trying to open the library, it just opens them as if they were a folder. The folders contain all the subsidiary files put there by iTunes, but Apple music doesn't seem to be able to make sense of them.
Applecare has been clueless. they don't even seem to be able to differentiate between Apple music the app and the subscription service. They have given me all kinds of mis-advice like it must be that the music files have copy protection. None of them do. They have all been ripped from CDs that I bought or are music files I recorded myself and, anyway, the Music app doesn't recognize the library and doesn't even get to the stage of opening a music file where it would check for copy protection. Some of the music files I actually bought from Apple.
Is there an extension I need to add to the filename to get this to work? Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks,
--Kenoli