how do you create a new itunes media folder?

Hi,

See Managing your Mac media libraries - Apple Community for some background. Your media folder can be wherever you choose for it to be, but I would suggest using something like <VolumeName>/Music/Media as the media folder, and storing the .musiclibrary package in <VolumeName>/Music. You can then either consolidate the library to this new path if there is room on the drive and do a manual clean up later, or trust in the Mac's ability to work out what you've done if you manually move folders from deep inside the rabbit hole up and over to the new media folder.

See the iTunes Media Organization section of the tip for an explanation of the nested Music folders. By default iTunes adds an additional Music folder inside the selected media folder as part of the path before it gets to the artist folders. This was good in iTunes when it was dealing with multiple types of media, not so good for Music that only deals with Music, and not so good if you tell the app to use this nested Music folder as the media folder, and it then goes and creates another nested layer inside it! After selecting a new media folder check the .Media Preferences.plist file inside it and edit if necessary before consolidating or moving any content so you don't get an additional nested Music folder you don't want or need.

Unlike iTunes, Music won't automatically keep an XML version of the library updated. You need to export it manually each time you make changes you want other software to be aware of. You should be able to save that file in any location where you have write access. With Music the old Album Artwork folder, .itl files, and other stuff become redundant, but that is all covered in the user tip.

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