Downloaded music in iTunes

Thanks Martin. That worked in terms of getting me to where all my downloaded songs are listed. I've actually been there before via a couple other ways. But I can't seem to " Select All " Nothing happens. So I'm just slogging away with manual deletions song by song which will get me there eventually. Its labour intensive but I'm an old fart and only work part time so I have the time. And I recently upgraded the old beast with an SSD so at least its very fast. Apple support has no solution for this. But I have a go to Mobile Mac tech who has figured out solutions to other software issues for me in the past. He will likely figure this out too, and when he does I will share how he did it. It isn't free but I'm like a dog with a bone when I run into these roadblocks; and my experience is that there is usually a fix even if the Apple Genius techs don't know about it. At least they try. And they haven't charged me a dime for the support so God Bless em.

Thanks again. I actually stumbled upon the right path yesterday and was able to delete all the downloads. Unfortunately I didn't make note of how I got there. God knows if I will find it again; so I will save your replies to try next time. I'm halfway to 100 gigabytes with the next section and when I get it moved I will have two thirds of the total stashed. I'm actually enjoying the whole process. It is allowing me to build a library of just the stuff I really like because I am skipping over some pop and opera content that I don't much care for. I'm also finding content I didn't know I had. Some artists ( Pink Floyd, Zappa,Mozart,Beethoven ), there is plenty of duplification. This allows me to choose the remastered versions. Its a lot of fun. And I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out. I love Apple Music. In particular I love the AI behind the genius shuffle option on the mac. I will likely never give up my subscription. But I resent my library being held hostage. When I'm finished it won't be.

Finally figured it out via a path I actually remember, although I have no doubt there are other ways. In high sierra my itunes has a menu option titled " Downloaded " Opening that in the songs view displayed all the songs downloaded. At that point trying to select all under edit doesn't work. However, if I close itunes when it is displaying those songs, and quit the app, the next time I reopen it they are still there. And at that point the select all option does work just fine. At which point I was able to copy them and paste them to external storage. On my mac the transfer takes about 20 minutes for 40 gigabytes. When its complete I am able to delete all the downloaded songs at once via the same method which takes a couple seconds. And after I empty the trash they are gone and I get that space back. Seems incredibly simple which also describes me when it comes to understanding software; but in my experience there is always way which is why I love most things Apple.