How do I download my iTunes Match library to consolidate Music libraries?
i need to consolidate my Music libraries. how do i download my itunes match library?
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Original Title: Itunes Match Library
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.2
i need to consolidate my Music libraries. how do i download my itunes match library?
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
Original Title: Itunes Match Library
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.2
There is only one library. You can't have multiple librares. If you are subscribed to iTunes Match and have Sync Library turned on in the Music app settings then anything in the iCloud music library is made available on the device or computer being used and anything on the device is then uploaded or matched and added to the iCloud music library.
click here ➜ Use Sync Library with your Apple Music subscription - Apple Support
Basically there should be no reason your iTunes Match library is separate to your local one unless its under a different Apple Account, and then the only way to consolidate this, would be to sign in to the account that holds the iTunes Match library, download the music and then copy it onto whatever other computer or device has your other library.
There is only one library. You can't have multiple librares. If you are subscribed to iTunes Match and have Sync Library turned on in the Music app settings then anything in the iCloud music library is made available on the device or computer being used and anything on the device is then uploaded or matched and added to the iCloud music library.
click here ➜ Use Sync Library with your Apple Music subscription - Apple Support
Basically there should be no reason your iTunes Match library is separate to your local one unless its under a different Apple Account, and then the only way to consolidate this, would be to sign in to the account that holds the iTunes Match library, download the music and then copy it onto whatever other computer or device has your other library.
mkmcfr wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
I only have one Apple account, although I have changed the sign-in name,...
This may be the salient piece of data. Your iCloud Music Library is attached to your Apple ID. Changing the sign in name (email address I assume) may have a negative impact here.
Hold down Alt/Option as you launch Music and create a new empty library, e.g. at ~/Music/Cloud, then enable Sync Library. All your content that Apple recognizes as being part of your iCloud Music Library should be shown once the library has synchronized. Do you see what you want to see, or only a limited selection of purchases? Make sure View > Only Downloaded Music is not checked.
Ideally you would have downloaded anything that was only in the cloud before making a change to your Apple ID. You should also maintain a complete offline backup of everything in case of accidental removals from the live library. If this was a relatively recent change your content may still be associated with the old email address. Reach out to Apple Support and ask for their assistance.
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Thank you for your reply.
I only have one Apple account, although I have changed the sign-in name, I don't think that should change the contents of my iTunes Match library. I have been a subscriber to iTunes Match since its inception. I find it a bit disconcerting that I now see a message stating that iTunes Match is "not a storage service", meaning, i suppose, that after confiding the contents of my personal collection of songs to the service, I might no longer be able to access them.
However, I was pleased to discover that although certain songs listed in Apple Music on my MacBook Pro are no longer playable because "the original file cannot be found", I was able to listen to them on my iPhone. Unfortunately, I have just looked on the MacBook Pro and I still get the message that they are not playable, or downloadable, because the original file cannot be found.
So, in conclusion, after paying for the iTunes Match service for... I would say at least 10 years, I discover that I no longer own the music I once had. And now I am seeing messages on this service that indicate that iTunes Match is no longer necessary, that Apple Music serves that same function! Is that true? I guess the only solution now is to take that crashed hard drive that contains all my music down to the lab and spend a few hundred bucks to have it transferred to a new hard drive.
How do I download my iTunes Match library to consolidate Music libraries?