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Best way to avoid using hard drive for music?

Hi I have lots of live concerts that were officially released by the artist (via Nugs) and bought as mp3s. These are artist sanctioned but not released on Apple Music/Spotify.


I have just bought a new MBA and didn't want to store all the gigs on it as I don't want use up all my hard drive space as I've only got 250GB.


I would ideally like to store all the music files on my 2TB iCloud Drive and for the Music app to take the music from iCloud when I'm online. However, when I tried doing this, it seems that it makes a copy of any songs on the hard drive so it rather defeats the object. Has anyone got a solution to this or a better idea?


Thanks!

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Posted on Oct 9, 2022 3:07 PM

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Posted on Oct 9, 2022 5:56 PM

You could backup the files on an external drive for security, then take out a subscription to Apple Music or iTunes Match. Once your files have been matched or uploaded you can right-click > Remove Download to free up local storage and you will still be able to stream those tracks from the cloud.


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