Start again iTunes - how?

[MrMister111]

As apps are now not on iTunes (at last!), I fancy starting again with my iTunes library to "clean" it all up. My iMac is a late 2012.

Basically all what is in there now is all the music that I've painstakingly tagged with album details, year, art, lyrics etc etc, and my iTunes movies I've purchased which are in the iCloud anyway.

So I obviously don't want to lose all the tagging and this is my worry so can I just copy the music folder and its contents (100Gb of it!). Delete iTunes (can you do this?), download it fresh, and then drag the folder of music I have onto iTunes and be done?

Anyone done this? am I mad? will it help tidy it up, and maybe be faster a bit as cleaning all the rubbish references etc out?

thanks

 

[iRock1]

I've never been sure about those sort of "cleaning" methods actually working—I think it's more a placebo.

Still, if you want to go that path, I'd recommend you copying all the folders in Music\iTunes\iTunes Media to a safe location. Then you delete the iTunes folder and once you open the app again it'll be as if it was starting from the first time, creating a new iTunes folder. Then you can add all the folders previously saved from the app.

 

[MrMister111]

Thanks I've just did this. Reason this time I'm thinking maybe better is that iTunes now doesn't have the app store in so there must be less bulk and still references in.

Anyway I decided to fresh install macOS as well now, high Sierra. Surprisingly it didn't have the latest iTunes on, I had to download that separate.

So I'm not when ready just going to add the music folders, few at a time to see if all info there. Gulp!!!