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I can no longer migrate my library from PC to mac

So, I've been using iTunes as my main music library on my PC for over a decade now, and I've been periodically backing it up to an external hard drive, and then copying it to my iMac and opening it up there with all my playlists, play counts etc intact for all that time without a hitch, using iTunes on Mac and the later 'music' iteration of the app.

Doing my backup as normal and when I option-open the music app on the iMac to point it at the .itl library file music just sticks on 'loading' forever and nothing happens. Before, upon reading said file it would immediately open my library fully intact and away I went.

I've tried deleting the library and re-copying it from the hard drive, making changes to the 'master' library on the PC so it overwrites the .it file, then copying it back to the Mac, and nothing, the same thing happens. I have even tried copying it to another iMac at work which is on OS 12.5 and on that machine when I option open the library it just tries to open the music app but with no music (but doesn't stick on loading like it does on my Mac that's on 12.6) I can't seem to find anything online about the music app suddenly not being able to read this critical file, has anyone any ideas? I've never had this problem before.

iTunes on my PC is updated to the latest version and is working perfectly.

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Posted on Sep 21, 2022 4:52 AM

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turingtest2

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Posted on Sep 21, 2022 5:53 AM

Hi,

I've seen several posts lately where Monterey fails to correctly convert an iTunes Library.itl database correctly. There seem to be two possible workarounds, copy the .itl file to Big Sur or Catalina and convert it there (the media folder is apparently not required) then move the database to Monterey and place it above the media folder, or if you have an iTunes Library.xml file you can import that into an empty Music library with File > Library > Import Playlist... as long as the media files are at the paths listed in the XML file. When porting from Windows to Mac the XML would need editing as the two file systems will map each file to a slightly different path. If I recall a global replace of file://<Drive Letter>:/ to file:///<Volume Name>/ should do it. I recommend Notepad++ for the task if you're doing it on the Windows end. Downside of the XML import method is that all Date Added details get reset.

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