In short, I've been asked by a family friend to help migrate her iTunes library to a new Mac & strip her child's purchases from the library in the process. The child has their own Apple ID (ie separate from parent's) and wants to 'keep' the songs they downloaded without having to download them again & the parent wants to get rid of the kid's songs in the parent's library & eliminate these purchased songs in the iTunes Store so they don't clog up her iPhone with the Cloud Downloads icon in the Music app on her iPhone. Also, the child is going to receive the old MacBook to use iTunes/do school work.
I have migrated iTunes libraries before, but I haven't 'separated' them and I'm a little fuzzy on the 'DRM/licensing/iTunes authorization' aspect of what this is going to entail. Listed below is the 'game plan' for this migration knowing very little about the aforementioned aspect, and I'd like some input from others as to whether this kind of thing has been done in the past / is this the 'best' way to accomplish this.
PLAN:
1. Identify Child's songs in library and make a new playlist for these, then burn this playlist to a disk/set of disks as Audio CD(s) so as to avoid the licensing conundrum.
2. Delete these songs from the existing library & migrate the iTunes folder to the new Mac.
3. Create a new iTunes Library on the old MacBook, import the Audio CD(s) from step 1, and set up the child's iTunes account for authorization on this machine & use in the iTunes store.
4. With the new Mac & parent's library, authorize the new Mac & proceed to go through hiding the child's old purchases in iTunes so they don't show up.
Expected issues that I'm not sure will be issues in reality:
- Will using the Audio CD method 'strip' the selected files of the licenses that could cause problems for the child using a different Apple ID with iTunes?
- If the child has too many purchases to fit onto 7 or less "Audio CDs", is there a way to use an external drive to do this without running into the authorization/DRM issues?
- Will hiding the purchases in the iTunes store of the parents ID eliminate the cloud icons in the parent's iPhone and prevent them from being redownloaded to the iTunes Library?
I have migrated iTunes libraries before, but I haven't 'separated' them and I'm a little fuzzy on the 'DRM/licensing/iTunes authorization' aspect of what this is going to entail. Listed below is the 'game plan' for this migration knowing very little about the aforementioned aspect, and I'd like some input from others as to whether this kind of thing has been done in the past / is this the 'best' way to accomplish this.
PLAN:
1. Identify Child's songs in library and make a new playlist for these, then burn this playlist to a disk/set of disks as Audio CD(s) so as to avoid the licensing conundrum.
2. Delete these songs from the existing library & migrate the iTunes folder to the new Mac.
3. Create a new iTunes Library on the old MacBook, import the Audio CD(s) from step 1, and set up the child's iTunes account for authorization on this machine & use in the iTunes store.
4. With the new Mac & parent's library, authorize the new Mac & proceed to go through hiding the child's old purchases in iTunes so they don't show up.
Expected issues that I'm not sure will be issues in reality:
- Will using the Audio CD method 'strip' the selected files of the licenses that could cause problems for the child using a different Apple ID with iTunes?
- If the child has too many purchases to fit onto 7 or less "Audio CDs", is there a way to use an external drive to do this without running into the authorization/DRM issues?
- Will hiding the purchases in the iTunes store of the parents ID eliminate the cloud icons in the parent's iPhone and prevent them from being redownloaded to the iTunes Library?