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Years ago I uploaded hundreds of CDs into iTunes and have paid for iTunes Match ever since. I would like to export these purchased albums from Apple Music to a back up hard drive before disposing of the CDs. Is there a way to do this - individually by album or all at once for all uploaded albums? Or would I have to find a CD reader and load them all individually again?
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.15
Downloads from iTunes Match will typically be in 256k AAC format with a .m4a file extension, although I think in some cases you can get back a verbatim copy of the original upload in whatever format it was in.
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Downloads from iTunes Match will typically be in 256k AAC format with a .m4a file extension, although I think in some cases you can get back a verbatim copy of the original upload in whatever format it was in.
tt2
Download anything that is currently in the cloud. Copy the entire Music folder, and your media folder if on another path, to an external hard drive.
tt2
Thanks! Looks like they are in Apple MPEG-4 audio format. Sound correct?
Exporting an music album previously uploaded from a CD
