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Is there any way to export an album from a music library? I have uploaded many CDs that I bought over the years. (I do not want apple music subcriptions or suggestions, I want to be my own master.) One ended up in the music library on my laptop, want to copy that album to my mosic library on my desktop (I misplaced the CD). I can find no way to do that.
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Bjorn,
When you ripped the CD, it created song files on the computer where you did the rip. Those song files should still be there, along with any copies or backups that you have made. If you are not sure where to look, right-click the track in your iTunes/Music library and choose Show in Finder (or Show in Windows Explorer).
Once you locate the song files, make copies the usual way.
Bjorn,
When you ripped the CD, it created song files on the computer where you did the rip. Those song files should still be there, along with any copies or backups that you have made. If you are not sure where to look, right-click the track in your iTunes/Music library and choose Show in Finder (or Show in Windows Explorer).
Once you locate the song files, make copies the usual way.
You can drag and drop songs in the Music window onto a destination in the Finder.
If you are copying songs to a USB flash drive for use with a car stereo system, you may need to clean off the 'dot' metadata files that the Finder likes to create on non-Mac-formatted volumes. E.g.,
SONG.AAC
._SONG.AAC
The second file is not visible in the Finder (thanks to the leading '.'), but a non-Mac system that sees the .AAC part may incorrectly assume that ._SONG.AAC is a music file, and throw errors when the file appears to be corrupted.
What finally worked was listing the music on my laptop in song order, searching and then selecting the songs from the album in question, copying them to an external folder on iCloud, then going to music on my desktop and importing that folder.
How can I export an album from my music library without an Apple Music subscription?