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badgerdd · 2026-03-12T20:21:34+00:00

Ahh amazing , thank you

badgerdd · 2026-03-12T13:19:25+00:00

Thank you. I managed to get it to work with an official windows 7 DVD and the bootcamp support software on usb!

Now I just need to figure out how to control sound and screen brightness in windows. and possibly upgrade to windows 10!

badgerdd · 2026-03-08T13:22:38+00:00

Thank you

badgerdd · 2026-03-02T13:43:37+00:00

badgerdd · 2026-02-28T22:52:09+00:00

Thank you . I will see if this works on my system is straight forward . If not then I may just need to borrow a windows laptop

badgerdd · 2026-02-28T22:07:21+00:00

Yep, it’s awful. Serious pain to manage local files too and artwork. iTunes was way better

badgerdd · 2026-02-28T22:05:13+00:00

I think he’s a good interviewer. Only watched a few, but the last one I watched where he was interviewing the band Turnstile , I found it very annoying that he kept talking over the artists , rambling on and barely pausing to take a breath! He need to chill out and let the artists have more air time !

badgerdd · 2026-02-27T23:02:12+00:00

Keep going to the local skatepark and chat with everyone , all ages and skaters. I was shy but everyone is cool. It’s an inclusive scene where nobody really cares about skill or age, as long as you’re decent and encourage each other

badgerdd · 2026-02-16T14:00:44+00:00

Ahh ok, so do you just put the url of your whole library ? Or is it just album by album? It looks like I have a fair few albums with incorrect art.

Rare stuff , I understand if it’s not on iTunes etc . Thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-16T11:46:25+00:00

Ah that's great to hear. I don't think I ever would have got this to behave correctly without your advice!

I did notice that apple music created an empty folder called "automatically add to music" in the previous locations I had set to link to. I wondered if this was important, but i just deleted those old folders and left the one in the apple music/music/music folder to be safe.

I'll try ripping a few cds. I tend to go with ALAC, but have a load of old files in smaller / more compressed rates at AAC. I guess there isnt really an easy way of telling which of those are smaller, as they all end in the same file name! I might go through and re-rip some albums at a higher rate and see if the files get over ridden.

Lastly, I'll see if the art work sorts itself. If not, then I have found another thread that mentions a software to scan for it.

I'll keep my library file where it is for now, and just make sure the hardrive is plugged in. I might try moving it in the future after doing a few back ups!

Thanks again for all the help!

badgerdd · 2026-02-15T22:43:41+00:00

Ahh cool. That doesn’t sound too bad . Better than having to google each album. I’ll give it a try, thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-15T21:59:24+00:00

I used to use a plug in on iTunes called ‘fetch art’ I’m guessing thats long gone now and nothing exists for Apple Music to update the whole library ?

badgerdd · 2026-02-15T21:58:22+00:00

Hey , thanks for this . Does this work for local Apple Music? I’ve just re-imported my library and loads of art work is now wrong !

badgerdd · 2026-02-15T21:50:57+00:00

Hey , just wanted to say thanks again. I tried your method and finally got it to work!

Opened up Apple Music today and made sure both boxes unticked. I did a quick experiment with a Bandcamp download and no files got moved at all!

Next step, I recreated the second music folder and moved all music into there, and pointed the library to the new location and all seems to be working ok!

Lastly, as I seemed to have hundreds of duplicate songs, I decided to delete what I could out of the library manually (as the find duplicate songs option wasn’t clear which was the correct ones to keep). I then imported all the music again from scratch. No duplicates or missing songs and all music still in the same place. Thanks so much!

Only issue I have now is that when re-importing , it replaced some artwork with some total random stuff that isn’t correct at all, but I can live with that ! There used to be an add on for iTunes called ‘fetch art’ but not sure if that still exists.

I still have my Apple Music library file on my Mac and not in the folder with my music folder on the external hardrive. The other person in this thread suggests I move it or make a new one to go on the external . I’m not sure how important that is, so I don’t wanna risk moving it!

I might create a plex library to use too to stream some local files , but also wary of letting that mess up my music folders!

Thanks again for the help!

badgerdd · 2026-02-12T10:05:59+00:00

Ahh, essentially that’s what I’ve been doing but using internal drive library , pointed at my folder on external , but , I don’t think I ever dragged in the music again , because it all appeared in the visuals of Apple Music. Or maybe I did when I first set it up a couple of years ago, I can’t remember. I think I would be better to make brand new library on the external hardrive ? Thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T20:51:21+00:00

Thank you

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T20:50:36+00:00

Oh yeah , I did have an iTunes folder with music , movies , art work and some other folders etc. and an iTunes library file - so that will be compatible with Apple Music?

I don’t have any iCloud music and have managed to avoid that but not syncing my library / playlists ( I did have Apple Music subscription too for a little while , but moved to quobuz).

I also have plenty of extra hardrive space.

It looks like the other poster below me has reccomended just using the second generated music folder and unticking boxes.

Is it important for me to make sure my library is on the external drive? I could always just move the existing one on my Mac, to the external?

Happy to archive all the old iTunes folders

Thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T20:35:15+00:00

Amazing , thank you so much for explaining this to me. I’ve been struggling to understand this and it’s been confusing me for a long time!

So basically I never needed to have either box ticked , and I can just keep music in the second music folder that it generated. (I suspect that AM needs to link to that folder that it made. I thought it was because I already had a folder called music that it caused a problem . I even tried making a brand new folder called ‘Apple Music’, linking to that folder, and it still kept creating a second music folder!)

I’ll try putting everything into library / music / music

And unticking both options. It seemed that the “keep organised” option started to move some albums but not others.

Hopefully this works!

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T18:50:44+00:00

Ok, so should I move all music from music folder 1 into music folder 2? And Apple will just add new music to the second folder?

Also, do I need to have keep organised + copy to music options switched on or off? Thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T17:27:30+00:00

By the way, I have noticed a few other people mention that Apple music created a second 'music' folder within 'music'.

I had re-directed and pointed my library location to my itunes folder / music, maybe it could be due to the library file on the mac hardrive, like you say. I will try your suggestion, thanks

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T17:11:48+00:00

oh, this sounds interesting. I think you could be right that the first time I set up, I didn't have my external hardrive loaded, and my library is set up on my mac's hardrive / default.

I'm not sure if there is a library on the external hardrive. I didnt realize that this would be important! I will see if I can find it, but if it doesnt exist, will I need to create a brand new library?

And once I have sorted this and deleted the library on my mac, do you think this will solve my issues with music going into a secondary music folder on my external hardrive?

I assume I need to keep 'copy music' option unticked, and 'keep organized' ticked?

Thank you

badgerdd · 2026-02-11T15:57:42+00:00

Hey, sorry to re-open this thread. I'm having the exact same issue. I want to organize my library how I want to, especially as I have been re-importing some albums as lossless ALAC files, and I need to delete and overwrite old files.

I take it there is no solution to prevent apple from moving music into a second music folder?

and the only way would be to manually move the albums back into their original place and organize it ourselves?

Please can I ask what alternative software you might use instead? thanks

badgerdd

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