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Changing Music library

I had all my songs in an external drive.

I bough an SSD and copied all files to the new drive, however due to the number of characters I can't name the new drive with the same name of the previous one.

Now Music doesn't find my songs because the path is changed and I don't know an easy way to fix it without having to add all songs again and create all lists from zero.

Any suggestions?

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Mar 27, 2022 6:13 AM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2022 7:27 AM

To change the Music library's storage location, usually it's enough to quit Music app, copy the entire music folder in the new location and press and hold the Option key while launching again the Apple Music app.


Follow this Apple's guide to switch libraries with the Apple Music app in macOS:

Switch libraries with the Apple Music app in macOS - Apple Support


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Mar 27, 2022 7:27 AM in response to Atgman

To change the Music library's storage location, usually it's enough to quit Music app, copy the entire music folder in the new location and press and hold the Option key while launching again the Apple Music app.


Follow this Apple's guide to switch libraries with the Apple Music app in macOS:

Switch libraries with the Apple Music app in macOS - Apple Support


Changing Music library

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