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How do you restore music library?

I am having to manually restore my music library from a Time Machine backup and I can't figure out what files I need to retrieve to restore all my music and playlists. I am not an Apple Music subscriber, this is just my own personal collection of music stored on my drive. I tried importing the folder of music files, and that worked, but I don't have any of the playlists, so that's really what I need to know, how to get my playlists back from Time Machine.

MacBook Air (2020 or later)

Posted on Nov 5, 2021 8:22 AM

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Posted on Nov 5, 2021 8:57 AM

Cartoonguy wrote:

I am having to manually restore my music library from a Time Machine backup and I can't figure out what files I need to retrieve to restore all my music and playlists. I am not an Apple Music subscriber, this is just my own personal collection of music stored on my drive. I tried importing the folder of music files, and that worked, but I don't have any of the playlists, so that's really what I need to know, how to get my playlists back from Time Machine.


From your user/Music


From Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy&paste:

~/Music


Include in the Directory you can see your < Music Library.musiclibrary> unless you moved it from the default location.


~/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary



https://support.apple.com/guide/music/change-where-music-files-are-stored-mus69248042d/mac



restore items backed up with Time Machine

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/restore-files-mh11422/mac

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Nov 5, 2021 8:57 AM in response to Cartoonguy

Cartoonguy wrote:

I am having to manually restore my music library from a Time Machine backup and I can't figure out what files I need to retrieve to restore all my music and playlists. I am not an Apple Music subscriber, this is just my own personal collection of music stored on my drive. I tried importing the folder of music files, and that worked, but I don't have any of the playlists, so that's really what I need to know, how to get my playlists back from Time Machine.


From your user/Music


From Finder>Go>Go to Folder copy&paste:

~/Music


Include in the Directory you can see your < Music Library.musiclibrary> unless you moved it from the default location.


~/Music/Music Library.musiclibrary



https://support.apple.com/guide/music/change-where-music-files-are-stored-mus69248042d/mac



restore items backed up with Time Machine

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/restore-files-mh11422/mac

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