Moving the Music library to a New Apple ID on Pre-Ventura

Transferring Music:

If you want to use a different Apple Account, the purchased items cannot be used with it. As for exporting Music, you can do the entire library.

I. On the Current Mac, Locate the Music Media folder location:

1. Open: Music
2. Go Here: Music menu
3. Select: Preferences
4. Click: Files button (middle item)
5. Highlight: the location shown
6. Right-Click: on location name
7. Select: Copy (Screenshot 1)

II. Go to the Music Media Folder:

1. Click: on the Desktop
2. Click: Go menu
3. Select: Go to Folder... (Screenshot 2)

III. Open the Music Media Folder:

1. Type: a tilde "~"
2. Right-Click: after the tilde
3. Select: Paste
4. Click: Go (Screenshot 3)

III. Export to an External Hard Drive:

1. Right-Click: Media folder
2. Select: Copy (Screenshot 4)
3. Paste: the Media Folder into an external hard drive

IV. Perform: Steps 1 and 2 on on the Other Mac

V. Copy-and-Paste: all from into an external hard drive into the other Mac's the Music Media folder location

VI. All Will be transferred

Screenshots

• Screenshot 1: Locate the Music Media Folder Location

• Screenshot 2: Go to the Folder

• Screenshot 3: Paste the Media Folder in "Go"

• Screenshot 4: Export to an External Hard Drive: