How to cleanly reinstall Music and all the internal files while clearing out the old iTunes crud?

Sonoma 14.4

Music 1.4.4.48

Apple user since 1996, I've not been thrilled with my user experience (300GB music library) since Apple decided iTunes was to be pushed into Apple Mu$ic. Countless hours were spent repairing the wonky transfer of content from the music library to iPhones.

I want to start afresh, manually reimporting each current digital audio file and artwork into the new Music library to ensure it's done right.

I use an external hard drive for the music tracks. It's backed up every month to another hard drive.

I'll never be a user of the Apple Mu$ic streaming service.

See my screengrabs for where I am and please advise me on how to gut this current mishmash from Apple and toss out all the old iTunes crud along the way.

Thank-you!

On the MacBook Air:

On the External Hard Drive:

MacBook Air (M2, 2022)

Posted on Mar 24, 2024 5:32 AM

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turingtest2

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Posted on Mar 24, 2024 6:18 PM

You cannot remove or reinstall Music. It wouldn't help anyway. You can create a new empty library into which you could add your media, but that loses ratings, play counts, playlists, etc. See Managing your Mac media libraries - Apple Community for advice on cleaning up the remains of your old iTunes library and getting all of your content neatly organized in the new apps.

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