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User profile for user: Mike Strohmeyer
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How to Transfer iTunes Match library to a new Apple ID account

A couple of months ago I subscribed to iTunes Match. After that occurred I began to have a variety of problems with the Apple ID I used for everything. I decided to create a new Apple ID and slowly move everything to that new account on my MacBook Air. For iTunes in the new account I pointed the app to the location of all my music on an external hard drive. This morning I discovered that in iTunes in the new account all the music is there but some of the display fields are completely devoid of data. In the past I spent a lot of time putting dates into the description field so that I could have a chronological listing of favorite tunes, mostly old Top 40 songs. The information is still present in my original Apple ID account. Is there some set of support files in need to copy to the new account to get the

missing data back in the new account?


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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.7

Posted on Oct 20, 2023 2:00 PM

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User profile for user: Mike Strohmeyer
Mike Strohmeyer Author
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Feb 12, 2024 2:25 PM in response to javaliga

After looking at my original post, it looks like I misspoke a bit. What I actually did was create a new account on my Mac with the same Apple ID. I understand your statement that music acquired under one Apple ID can't be transferred to another Apple ID. But I'm still unable to get the Description field info to transfer to the new account. I noticed that the Music app in the new account pointed to files on my internal HD, so I changed that info to point to the external drive. No change. Would I be better off doing an option-start in the new account and creating a new library using the data on my external HD? I'm running out of ideas.

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