Q: download all songs at one time
I have 3,400+ on my phone in Apple Music and just got an iMac. I want download all the songs in iTunes to the hard drive. Do I have to download each song or album individually or is there a one click solution to just download them all at one time?
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Posted on Sep 3, 2016 7:27 PM
Better would be to transfer them from the old computer to the new one. That way you would keep playlists, ratings, etc.
Download all songs from Match [iCloud] at once - https://discussions.apple.com/message/18223535#18223535
Aug. 2015 ChrisCA post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/28692305#28692305 -
"Select Music.
Select Tunes Store.
Select Purchased on right side.
Select Not in My Library.
Click Download All at lower right."
Apple's 6 page, exhaustingly meticulous step-by-step instructions: How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - https://support.apple.com/HT204318 It is handy if you suspect any of your media are not in the standard location.
My one-sentence summary if you use iTunes' default preferences settings: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its sub-folders and files) intact to the other drive, hold down the option/alt key (shift on Windows) while starting iTunes, and when requested to select a library select the iTunes Library.itl file in the copied folder (Open a different iTunes Library file or create a new one - https://support.apple.com/HT201596).
Posted on Sep 5, 2016 11:18 AM