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How do I play my music on external drive?

Finally got Monterey installed and go to look at my music and no longer is it iTunes its Apple music, and all the stuff that I had downloaded onto external hard drive is no longer listed in my Apple Music app. How do I fix that?


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iMac 21.5″, macOS 12.1

Posted on Jan 24, 2022 12:10 PM

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Posted on Jan 24, 2022 12:33 PM

Do you have your iTunes Library.itl file on the external drive? Assuming you do hold down option as you launch Music, click the Choose Library option, and open the .itl file. If not locate it on your previous computer and copy it over. See Move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Community for more background.


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Jan 24, 2022 12:33 PM in response to caddy daddy

Do you have your iTunes Library.itl file on the external drive? Assuming you do hold down option as you launch Music, click the Choose Library option, and open the .itl file. If not locate it on your previous computer and copy it over. See Move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Community for more background.


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How do I play my music on external drive?

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