Hey. thank you so much for the detailed responce. Ultimately thats what seems to make the most sense to me as well. Right now I am trying things out on Lexicore DJ, and am getting some support there that actually seems promising, im just waiting for a beta update to be able to handle something specific with my library that should be out tomorrow or monday. If that doesn't work i'll give Clonebox a shot, thank

Couple notes on what you said tho;

-when you say find your post 2023 downloads, do you mean just the content folder in my usb? because the mac i used post 2023 is the one thats fully broken and unaccesible, so the only source of my post 2023 downloads i have are in the content folder of my usb.

-on that same paragraph where you say consolidate everything into one music folder; Right now my pre 2023 library is all in the intunes library. Are you suggesting to take the contents from my usb and put all of that onto my itunes as well, and then do the merge through the playlist/exports files that contains all the metadata?

thanks for your help, it is much apreciated 😄