Update music directory from iTunes/iTunes Media to newer Music/Media

[macrlz9]

Hello!
No issues here with Catalina or the new Music app but to keep things neat and tidy, I'd like to switch the directory for my music library. I've noticed Catalina now uses ~/Music/Music/Media/ as the default where it was previously ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/.

I tried going in the Music app > Preferences > Files > & Clicking "Reset" to change to the new default directory then File > Library > Organize Library & selecting the "Reorganize" option.

When I add new items to the Music library, they are placed in the new directory but all existing files/folders are still in the older directory.

 

[Floored]

Very irritating! But I think even iTunes would make you drag and drop your music library onto the apps icon to reload/rebuild it's data base of files if you moved anything around making you rebuild all your collections etc every time

 

[c073186]

I recently updated to Catalina and also wanted to move the iTunes Media into Music Media to have a single folder for all music storage. This is what I did:

1) Reset the default media folder location (Music>Preferences>Files>Reset).
2) File>Library>Organize Library and selected Consolidate option. This creates copies of all songs to the new Music Media folder. This completely duplicates the library, leaving everything in the iTunes Media as it was. After doing this, I went to a few songs and chose Show in Finder to verify that their location was the new Music folder, not iTunes.
3) Deleted the iTunes folder within Music. (Made a backup before doing this)

This seemed to work for me and I haven't experienced any issues. As far as I can tell, all of my playlists, songs, and artwork is the same as it was. Hopefully deleting the iTunes folder does not have any negative consequences I'm unaware of. I did do the same procedure in TV as well, prior to Music, as I think that was also sharing the iTunes folder, though I had no movies/TV shows downloaded so kind of a nonissue.

 

[macrlz9]

I recently updated to Catalina and also wanted to move the iTunes Media into Music Media to have a single folder for all music storage. This is what I did:

1) Reset the default media folder location (Music>Preferences>Files>Reset).
2) File>Library>Organize Library and selected Consolidate option. This creates copies of all songs to the new Music Media folder. This completely duplicates the library, leaving everything in the iTunes Media as it was. After doing this, I went to a few songs and chose Show in Finder to verify that their location was the new Music folder, not iTunes.
3) Deleted the iTunes folder within Music. (Made a backup before doing this)

This seemed to work for me and I haven't experienced any issues. As far as I can tell, all of my playlists, songs, and artwork is the same as it was. Hopefully deleting the iTunes folder does not have any negative consequences I'm unaware of. I did do the same procedure in TV as well, prior to Music, as I think that was also sharing the iTunes folder, though I had no movies/TV shows downloaded so kind of a nonissue.

Thanks for that! I think I tried resetting the default directory but then dragged and dropped the contents of the iTunes folder to music myself and iTunes had issues locating the new files or something so I abandoned that idea... But I might try your way. It makes sense.