I recently had a hard drive failure which I lost my iTunes library but I had Matched all my music in iCloud.
Is there a way to download all my music back a hard drive? I can download one at a time by double clicking on a single song and waiting for iTunes to return an error that it can't find the song then allows me to download.
One at a time is going to take forever. **the song are a mix of purchases and my own music from CD's.
See Open a different iTunes Library file or create a new one - Apple Support. If you create a new empty library then sign into iTunes Match everything should be visible in the cloud ready to download. If you want the media stored on an external drive then create the library there too. You can then clone the folder to a different drive to have a complete backup of your library.
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Yes! This did work. Missing sequence is once the library is created and Matched then Command + A to select all songs. Then right mouse click and select Download.
This absolutely was simple and worked! Thanks!
You're welcome. 🙂
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Restoring iTunes Library to Mac Mini
