Master Apple's Music App and Clean up Your Music Library

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Ever since Apple changed the name of iTunes to "Music", people have been confused. iTunes used to be so simple, so how will the world are you supposed to find your music easily now?
Dylan Stewart, a.k.a. The MacWhisperer can help! In this video, he will show how to use the albums, artists, and songs View to easily get around her entire music library.
He will also show you how to fix incorrect Music information so that you can easily change genres, artists or even album titles when they get out of whack!
Dylan Stewart a.k.a. The MacWhisperer teaches a monthly technology course where he explores new and innovative ways to use technology and trains people on how to master their devices and their software to get more done in less time than I ever thought possible.
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Highlights from this video
[00:00:00] Introduction to Apple's Music App
[00:01:45] The Music App
[00:02:02] Apple Music
[00:02:41] Organizing your music library
[00:03:07] Searching by Artist (The Artist View)
[00:04:25] Searching by album (the album view)
[00:05:24] The best way to search you library (the song view)
[00:06:01] Turning on the column broser
[00:06:57] Filtering your library
[00:07:36] Changing view options
[00:09:19] Creating a playlist
[00:10:48] Adding mulitiple songs to a playlist
[00:11:23] Playlists and playlist folders
[00:12:10] Fixing bad song info (metadata)
[00:13:12] Editing multiple genres, songs or artists simultaneously
[00:14:33] The problem with compilations

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@NYCTalkingcom 2 жыл бұрын

So I was looking for something about how synching playlists with iTunes works for backup purposes and came across this video. I have to tell you, this was really helpful, informative, and though not what I was originally looking for, I stuck around and it was extremely high value. Thanks for putting this together man, this is great work. I lost my whole playlist and decided to start over, using this info, I'm going to clean up what I've already done and build from there. Kudos!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@salvao0000 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative, have over 10k songs and you really helped me learn new ways to make my cleanup and organization experience faster, thanks for the vid!

@collinwood60 Күн бұрын

Wow. What an awesome video. I thought it was another video to show me how to sort and add songs to playlists. Having been aggravated by the inaccurate genres that Apple or whoever (record label?) assigns to the songs/albums for a few years your tip is phenomenal! I never knew you could overwrite what is already there. Now, to clean up hundreds of albums and thousands of songs. Oh no, now I wish I didn't know! Thanks!

@theconqueringcreative735 Жыл бұрын

This video is so incredibly helpful. I was a long-time iTunes user, and loved the format, and have found Apple Music to be very confusing. This video helped me figure it out. Thanks!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 😊

@lucydeboxer2565 2 жыл бұрын

Dylan, thank you SO much for your informative videos. I've been a Mac users since the very first Lisa and find there is always more to learn. Good job!

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

I love it Lucy... another OG Mac user in the house. Let me know if there is a particular topic you would like to see me cover!

@ronalddavis4723 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. You know your stuff and I really understood what you said. Thank you.

@glorioskiola 3 ай бұрын

This is so helpful. It has been many many years since I fooled with my iTunes, such as changed info like Genre, and fixed artist or album names. I remember albums being categorized as “compilation” when they weren’t! I am about to import my entire cd collection into my new MacBook Air, and this will really help me organize everything. Thanks so much for such clear explanations!

@TheMacWhisperer 2 ай бұрын

Awesome!!! Glad you got vsalue out of it!

@tbarber1027 2 ай бұрын

Excellent practical coverage of a complex & multifaceted topic THANKS! 🙂

@TheMacWhisperer 2 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@peterkellogg1216 2 жыл бұрын

Great info!

@ealam Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tutorial!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@reneeb6197 9 ай бұрын

Finally.... figured out how to search for a song in MY library... not iTunes library :) Tons of other useful info as well. I will be watching your other videos once I clean up my library. Thank you!

@TheMacWhisperer 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@robertgrahamvlogs Жыл бұрын

Great Video!! Thanks!!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! ;)

@innovationgroupofsouthflor4744 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the great video.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!! ;)

@davidhardaway Жыл бұрын

Great video, well played sir.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@SpiramusPresents Жыл бұрын

So clearly presented in every possible detail!!! THOROUGH!!! Thank you!!!!! grateful!!!!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@ElleGiguere 4 ай бұрын

Appreciate this SO much, thank you!

@TheMacWhisperer 4 ай бұрын

You're so welcome!

@AbdAlgani1999 2 жыл бұрын

really thank you

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad to help!

@chafrewilcha 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent! Thanks! I'm a subscriber.

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

You rock!!! Welcome!

@reginalddursel974 Жыл бұрын

Great quality of presentation. Thank you.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

You're very welcome! ;)

@yannisgk Жыл бұрын

very useful video!!!thanks!!!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

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@djintence Жыл бұрын

You know, this SAVED me from Downgrading & going back to 10.14 & iTunes. I use my iTunes & Apple Music to organize my DJ library. But using the Column Browser & what not. You saved me. #THANK THANK THANK THANK!!!!! YOUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Happy to know it helped! ;)

@davidholt2335 7 ай бұрын

Thanks much for this! New Sub.

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@mitch4136 3 ай бұрын

Thank youuuuu!!!! ❤

@TheMacWhisperer 2 ай бұрын

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

@johnho58 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy the video. Very informative.

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@sinchi84 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your Job i love watch all your videos regards from Ecuador South América

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@MacFalko 8 ай бұрын

Great Vid 😎

@TheMacWhisperer 8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it ;)

@ltcbio1 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the reply. I actually found a way to sort the music. Not optimum, But I added the “kind” field under the songs tab and it put them in order that I could see which were mine and which had digital rights protection.

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! :)

@doloressowinski6163 2 жыл бұрын

Amazingly thorough and understandable instructions. Finally, I feel in control of my music library. Yippee. Thanks.

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@ltakallen Жыл бұрын

All I can say is WOW! Well WOW, and Thank You! Awesome tutorial! I have already hit 👍🏾 and subbed! Now, off to meander through your vast library…Than I will certainly understand My Mac More! Cheers Mate 😊

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Mate! :)

@luisnovoselic8519 2 жыл бұрын

this is very useful, looking forward to the next Apple Music video ✌🏻

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks... I am working on the script today. I plan on diving into Apple Music and how to get around on it and get the most out of it.

@MowSow Жыл бұрын

Wow !! That is a very well made video, complete, detailed and well explained. I was looking for a video to see if I can do those things on the phone Apple Music app, and realized it can only be done on the MacBook. Thanks you .. although it didn’t need to be 20 minutes if you didn’t talk like a kindergarten teacher on Sesame Street 🤣

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@pawsandcuesdogtraining Жыл бұрын

I have struggled with the new Music app and this is fabulous. Thank you. I need to find information on how to mark (or whatever one does) what goes on my iPhone so that I can start clean with that. DO you have a video on that/

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Hi can you please elaborate more what you need help with?

@KreativeComedy Жыл бұрын

Life saver!!!!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Any time! 😉

@thecrewcollector5171 7 ай бұрын

Thank you and Great Video. The last few minutes of this video with the genre and meta data editing was awesome! Wish I would have seen long ago. I’ll have to search your other videos for more tips! I saw in your video scrolling multiple albums didn’t have cover art either on the albums view. Any more tips on getting those to find the album art short of manually finding, saving and uploading? Subscribed.

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Ideally it should happen automatically if the Metadata is accurate. Otherwise there were some 3rd party apps back in the day that could help, but if I had to do it today I would probably do it manually. Wish I had a better answer for you.

@mazal-bb Жыл бұрын

Fantastic vid! Years ago, after getting frustrated with Apple's awkward navigation and controls, I abandoned my library, and recently getting back to it. I'm looking for a fresh start and this is a great refresher. Thanks! In addition to many digital albums, I own a ton of singles. I'm curious-in the meta data-what your solution would be to organize these singles together. I don't want to lose its parent album data nor artist data. There are options such as "grouping" or "sort as…" I was wondering if you have a preferred or systematic method of organizing one-offs. Thank you. 🙏

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

You're welcome! Happy to know it helped you..

@doncrabtree7538 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this! How about a video on navigating the music app on Apple TV? Maybe it’s just me but it’s a nightmare at times.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

@filk2300 Жыл бұрын

Great video thanks! Quick question I have apple music and my home library is on external drive with 10,000 songs. I have it working with apple music. I can listen to any of the songs in my library on iPhone no problem. When I do top my mac and listen to my library as long as I have my external drive plugged into mac I can hear my songs. If I unplug the external drive and try to listen to my songs on apple music on my mac I get exclamations on each song. Do I always have to have my external drive plugged into mac to hear my library songs?

@filk2300 Жыл бұрын

Any idea on my question ?

@xanth987 4 ай бұрын

in my experience, yes. if you set up your library to be stored on an external drive, all the pathways for storage and playback are listed for that drive. unplug it and poof the library info file is deaf dumb and blind. has no idea where it went.

@MagicRichC 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, great tips. I’m looking for some helpful tips on cleaning up my “iTunes” Apple Music. I have over 25,000 songs in my library.

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

+Rich C- KN4YLL

@kathyb9436 2 жыл бұрын

new to Apple must and wondering if I should use my iMac or iPhone to download songs/playlists. I just need to explore and learn it I guess!

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

You can download songs/playlists on either device. You can also use Apple Music to manage your music if you like. Let me know if you have questions.

@JohnStenstrom Ай бұрын

Great advice. I have many entrys Which are “grayed out” and worthless. I;ve been deleting them and would love to know if there is a sort option to group them.

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

Absolutely. If you open the view options on your computer and sort by cloud status most of the great out ones will come together. They are great out because they didn’t finish uploading from the original device and music doesn’t know where to find the actual files. This usually happens when someone move from one computer to the other without having everything fully uploaded. If you still have the old computer you can re-upload them if not, sort by cloud status and you can get rid of them.

@jakubwadrzyk7794 2 жыл бұрын

Do everyone wish there was a hashtag based music system and smart playlists or is it only me?

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

There actually are smart playlists... I am curious, how would you see hashtags working (instead of searches)? And what do you wish a smart playlist would do?

@jakubwadrzyk7794 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking about how the apple notes works and if it could be somehow implemented in music app. You could add hashtags to every song and sort them by mood and language and even from where you know this particular song (film, anime, etc). Then you could make smart playlists or search by hashtags just like in notes app. This would allow you to easily add songs to multiple playlists just by adding hashtags. Smart playlists that you @Mac whisper were talking about don’t work like this, tell me if I’m wrong 😅

@jakubwadrzyk7794 2 жыл бұрын

I don’t remember every song by artist or album and this hashtag system would be very helpful. I’m waiting for your next video 👌

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

@@jakubwadrzyk7794 you know, it's really a brilliant idea… I don't know that I had thought about it before, but you can make smart playlist work like this more or less. Some of my friends call me the workaround KING👑 … This is one of those cases where it's not quite the way it's meant to be used but it could totally be modified to work like what you're talking about. Go onto the Apple Music app on your computer, find a song in your library, get info (click command + I), and under the details Tabb, at the bottom is a section called comments. You can add your own hashtags or notes or anything you want this way. Then go to the file menu, click new smart playlist, and you can create a playlist that searches for information from that comments section. You can also create a smart playlist that searches for information almost anywhere else in the meta-data… But for what you're talking about, the comment section is probably the best place. It's not perfect, it's not the way Apple would do it (if they ever did it) but it's functional…

@salvao0000 2 жыл бұрын

@@jakubwadrzyk7794 i do this by having the composer section of songs be my description or hashtags of them like you mention. You can later create a smart playlist containing specific composers/hashtags and organize them like this

@michael7oliver Жыл бұрын

Hey Dylan, I’ve got items that have already been matched and are now in my iCloud library. Whenever I edit these on the “iTunes” app on my Mac the changes are reverted when the iCloud library updates. Same goes with deleting; there’s a handful of albums I no longer want and I’ve deleted them on “iTunes” which removes them from my library and allows me to delete the files but then they re-appear when the iCloud library updates. Any advice?

@rjayt88 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all of the information. I have one question about playlists. I created a few, but when I use them I notice that some songs never play, but others play many times. Is there a way to fix that, or is there a limited number of songs that you should put in a playlist? Note that I am not streaming through the music app, I originally purchased all of the songs when it was iTunes.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Most of the times when a song won’t play, and songs have been purchased from itunes there may be more than one iTunes account that the songs are from, or there may be an issue with some of those songs (corruptions, etc). Find the song that does not play and double click it to see if it gives you an error or a message, if that doesn’t work select the song and hit command + i, and go to the file tab to see if it can help you determine the problem. The cloud status section will tell you if it was purchased, uploaded, matched, etc… see if you can find the connection between the songs that don’t play and report back here to see if we can resolve the issue.

@donbiagio1 2 жыл бұрын

Hi my friend; thanks again for another outstanding video. Great introduction to Apple Music for me. Wish many Happy Holidays to you and your family from the “HAWAIIAN shirt guy”. This week in Winnipeg is minus 15-17 Celsius: (that is around - 4 Fahrenheit). Stay safe, ❤️👕 B. Bisignano

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Happy holidays my fellow shirtaholic... glad you enjoyed the video!!!

@DaveLarose3 4 ай бұрын

Thanks. Today, you may very-well may have saved lives. The changes from iTunes to macOS Music has made me homicidal...

@TheMacWhisperer 3 ай бұрын

I totally get it!!!

@Seracdog 2 жыл бұрын

Nice vid! Quick question, I have a few songs with long boring intros. How do I edit or cut the long boring part out? Thanks in advance!

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Click on the song, click ⌘+i, click on the options tab and change the start (or end) time.

@Seracdog 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Many thanks!!!

@davetemplin8957 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the great info! Do you have any tips for backing up playlists? I've had several playlists disappear since apple moved from iTunes to Apple Music. I'm tired of recreating playlists.

@TheMacWhisperer 6 ай бұрын

You can export a play list to save it by going to the music app, going to the file menu, and under library you will find the option to export the playlist as a .txt file that you can save in your files and then reupload if you ever need to.

@davetemplin8957 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I was able to download the file as you suggested. Your instructions were very clear and worked well. Does the 'reupload' recreate the list in the 'music' app or just give me the order so I can rebuild the list? If it recreates the list can you please provide the 'reupload' steps. Thanks again! @@TheMacWhisperer

@TheTherealdjty Жыл бұрын

Hi! Amazing video. So I was accustom to changing / updating tags by changing Groui mg option but it still says mixed even if I highlight all songs and delete the grouping number. Any ideas on how to fix that?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

I am not sure I understand the question, can you rephrase it please… 😊

@rickhorvath Жыл бұрын

Regarding genres, many songs will need to have multiple genres.

@montiac22 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate you doing this video and I ran across this video for a different reason. I have been looking for a video on how to get my itune music from my old iMac into the Music App on my new 2022 Monterey IMac. Do you know if there is a video around that might be helpful. I would really appreciate if any one knows of one. Thanks

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

It’s actually really easy. Go to your old computer, go to your home folder, music folder, and take the iTunes music folder from there and put it on the new machine. Then on the new machine go to import, pointed to that folder and let it file the songs where they belong. There’s another way to do it that involves uploading all of the songs from the iMac to Apple Music, and then making sure the new computer is also sent up with Apple Music and they should merge… But it’s really easy to do it manually and that’s the way I generally do it.

@montiac22 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Thank You Very Much!

@jrc171974 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Dylan! I wonder how to make an even volume and sound with Itunes because some of my cd's are old, any advice?

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Theoretically, there is a setting in the Music App for just that. Go to the music menu, and preferences, then under playback make sure the "Sound Check" button is on. If that doesn't work it gets significantly more complicated.

@Plamen0619 Жыл бұрын

14:33 Does the info we edit for songs or artist/albums get saved only in Apple Music or gets embedded in the files ( ID3 tags) ?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

It should be added to the files itself and into the ID3 tags, but Apple Music specific files have a tendency to revery over time. In other words you only have full control over music you "own" (purchased from itunes or other sources and/or uploaded from CDs).

@pauljackson6296 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I too have a huge iTunes library that I have collected and curated for years. I have just upgraded to a new iMac with the "Music" player. I used to use the "Songs" view exclusively in iTunes. There was a search bar at the top right that I would use to search for song titles, artists, albums etc. Where has this gone? I can't get by without it! Is there any way to get the old iTunes style search bar back?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

So there is no way to revert to iTunes and its style, because it has been replaced many years ago by the Music App. In the Apple world (and the world as a whole) nothing stays the same forever, but I have found that I prefer Music now that I know how to use it. Here are some tips to replicate the iTunes way of finding and playing music: First off, view your library by clicking on the songs section on the left, and then under the view menu select column browser, and "show column browser". Then click in any of the columns (genre, artist, album) and start typing to immediately search whatever column you are in. You can also search directly in the song section by just clicking on any track in the lower area, and starting to type the name of a song. If you still need to search beyond that, you should see a search bubble in your upper left-hand corner. When you use that make sure you are selected on "my library" rather than Apple Music or the iTunes store. The search bubble is only ok, I prefer using the column browser Even though we can't go back to iTunes, you can make this app work almost the same way, with just a few modifications. And don't forget you can always use Siri to instantly find or play a specific song. To trigger Siri press and hold the command button and the space bar, and then tell her what you want to hear. Hope that helps!

@pauljackson6296 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks again. Can you explain in more detail what you mean by "You can also search directly in the song section by just clicking on any track in the lower area, and starting to type the name of a song"?

@zchovan 27 күн бұрын

A channel dedicated to getting organized on your Mac? Yes, please.

@TheMacWhisperer 25 күн бұрын

Welcome! Let me know if there are any specific tools you would like to learn more about!!!

@Quicksilver1934 2 жыл бұрын

I just migrated all of my 800 albums that were on my old itunes to my new system that only has "music" app. They loaded in DOUBLE...YIKES. is there a way to uninstall and start all over?

@dwaynemurphy8229 6 ай бұрын

Is there a way to change the order of the 'recently added' page in the music app? Mine seems to have changed to some random order

@TheMacWhisperer 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately not that I can see.

@Sucram1975 7 ай бұрын

I am having an issues with apple music matching to wrong albums that I have ripped from CDs. Is there a way to unmatch so that the correct tracks will synch?

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Best I can say is try to manually put the correct info in the metadata manually and that should help. You may need to look at the actual album on iTunes to find the correct info.

@RexEss19 Ай бұрын

Exactly what I wanted...although losig the 'pretty' album art interface as my go to will be hard to bear ;-)

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

I completely understand, but i will take efficient over pretty any day...

@MrAngelobod Жыл бұрын

Great video ! Learn something new every day. I have alsoa large library, and gut stuck with an issue you might be able to help with. Each time I import a new album right now it takes forever. However when I tick the option 'Keep Media Folder Organized', it will run through my entire library which also takes some time and that is perfectly normal. After that I can import any album super quick again (like normal). When I quit Music however and import another album, it's back to where it was. Slow importing...hope you have some tips for me. Kind Regards

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Just for clarity, you are saying that the ‘Keep Media Folder Organized’ setting needs to be reset each time you quit? What OS are you running music on?

@MrAngelobod Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer yeps, correct. Running OS 12.6 right now. Each time I want to import tunes at a normal import speed...driving me insane ;) The library is super clean btw. Used your tutorials, and some of Doug's plugins...

@MrAngelobod Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer So I did a deep dive. As one MP3 imported fast, and another MP3 imported SLOW. The difference: they use a different MP3 Codec. 1) Slow > Lame 3.99r codec vs the other MP3 (FAST), from which I do not know which codec it is.... I exported the SLOW MP£ to WAV. And imported this WAV into Apple Music again, which was again a FAST import....

@MrAngelobod Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer new Library sorted all issues...The library got currupted after the update to Monterey

@AAC236 4 ай бұрын

is there a video on how to get the artist photo to load correctly on apple music? it does it fine on my phone but not on my mac and i cannot find an option in settings.

@TheMacWhisperer 4 ай бұрын

Not sure about getting it to load correctly... but the setting for artwork on the mac is in music under settigns, under advanced... automatically update artwork for imported songs.

@ltcbio1 8 ай бұрын

Hey Dylan, I have the same comment as the previous one in that I was not looking for your subject matter, I learned a quite a few things I did not know. I looked at your video list, and could not find anything on the items of interest to me (and probably others). Here are suggested subjects: How to back. up and restore playlists. How to differentiate between what songs are yours (no digital rights), and those you have downloaded. Apple is very cryptic and I think intentionally vague as to force or at least nudge people to streaming everything vs owning thier own stuff.

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Good topic ideas. Backing up and restoring playlists is relatively easy to do so I may do a "short" to answer that... Unfortunately separating your songs from ones with digital rights on your and other people's accounts is super hard to explain (and even harder to do properly) but if I figure out a simple way I will definitely share it. Since going full force to Apple Music I have less and less of need for that function, but I know how frustrating it can be.

@thewordman1 11 ай бұрын

Great video and info. Like you I have a ton of music in my library. However, I did not like the apple music experience when I did the trial. I found it difficult to know what was mine vs. what I downloaded from Apple music. My question is, is there a way to separate them? Also, is there an easy way to clean up the library, specifically the duplicate songs? Thanks, JT

@TheMacWhisperer 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@zolawilliams1 6 ай бұрын

Duplicates - yes there is a way... I believe you go to Library-->Songs and then from the top menu bar go to File --> Library --> Show Duplicate Items.

@tanner6871 Жыл бұрын

How do you deal with albums that have only one song, as-in, singles? Specifically, I like to go into my phone and browse albums, but I don't want to see albums with only one song, since there are so many. I just want to see whole albums. Is there a way to do that?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately there is no way to only show completed albums. There are three potential workarounds… The first one is don’t use the album view, use the song view. That minimizes that frustration right off the bat. The second suggestion is to change the album name of The albums that only have a couple of songs to either have NO name, or you can call them all incompleted albums… Then the computer will automatically bundle all of them together. My last option going into any of those single songs, getting information about them, and checking the option that they are a compilation. Then they will be removed from the normal album view. l and obit show in compilations. None of them are a perfect simple fix, but those are the different ways I Would consider modifying it. :)

@jorgeandrescoppiano.5715 9 ай бұрын

Hello Dylan! I have not updated from iTunes to Apple Music. And I am trying to order up my library before updating. I have a bunch of duplicated songs. And want to clean that up. I think I have to check the rout of each duplicated file. Then locate the song file in the Finder. Then compare the two different song files. Erase the wrong one. And relocate the right one in a folder of mine. That being said, should I keep everything under the iTunes folder? Or in a folder of my own music? What should I do?

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

You should do ALL of that in the app itself, not in your folder. If you move things around in the folder without doing the corresponding work in the app you will leave accidental reference files all over the place and it will make it hard for you. Apple Music has built in duplicate finding tools, so you may be better off upgrading and clearing up the duplicates from the app afterwards...

@jorgeandrescoppiano.5715 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, Dylan! God bless you and your loved ones.@@TheMacWhisperer

@mariagutierrez3018 2 жыл бұрын

I have a iPhone 13 pro max and iPad 11 pro I don't like that I have the same playlist on both I don't want that . I want to have different playlist on my both divices I have same ID .

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

If you don't want the same playlists on all your devices you should turn off "Sync Library" in the Music settings.

@koneko_x 8 ай бұрын

Help: What is the best devider for mac to recognise that there are separate multiple artists in one song?

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

If the song has a main singer and a featured artist I tend to put the featured artist(s) in the song title area at the end of the title in parenthesis. If there are a lot of artists on one song it can be pretty frustrating, but fortunately that's uncommon (songs like We are the World, etc that have that issue I put under "various artists" instead of any specific singer)

@koneko_x 7 ай бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer That kind of sucks that mac doesn't allow for multiple main artists. Probably gonna switch back to windows 😅

@Ray-yt7mk 10 ай бұрын

I like your lesson but I still miss the xml part that used to make it so easy to share iTunes with other music apps.

@TheMacWhisperer 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Question: I have a MacBook Pro 2015 with OS Sierra (iTunes). I have 5000 songs 80% from iTunes Store and some from other sources of digital download or imported CDs. I just bought a new MacBook Pro M1 with new Apple Music app and it’s still in the box, not setup yet. So if I use migration assistant will my library and it’s playlists migrate over from iTunes into the Music App during the process? What about all the metadata with date song added to library? Thx

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

If you use the migration assistant everything should transfer flawlesly.

@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer ha! I’m back 2 months later to tell you that that is incorrect! Out of 5000 songs downloaded on old Mac only about 2500 transferred. I left it connected a long time thinking it just needed to update itself but didn’t. For 5 days I was stumped and only thing that worked was to rebuild the music file location and re add the library from ext hd. Even this took more than a few attempts had to keep rearranging folders in the music files area for the Mac to make sense of what I was importing to the library.

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

@@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial That sucks. I am sorry that was your experience. How old was the old Mac? I have had good luck doing it many times on my machines, but sometimes glitches happen🤷. Good work on getting it built back up! 👍

@SharpEdgeStandardOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer thanks! The old Mac was a MBP from 2014 I think. One other strange phenomenon I haven’t been able to figure out on new Mac is this: all my iTunes song purchases are purchased on iPhone. I don’t sub to any Apple Music service I buy all my stuff and download. When would fire up old Mac the songs would pop up and automatically download in iTunes and organize into media proper location. Only now on new Mac after the songs populate in music app I have a download arrow and song location under the “get info” tab shows “cloud”. I have to manually go into iTunes Store > purchases > not in library and manually download to music library. After that they’re organized and in proper location. Just strange that I have to manually do this and haven’t been able to figure out anything in Apple Music app settings. Other weird part is when the new purchases show up in the Mac music app before I manually download anything the tracks will still play. Any ideas as to why this is happening???

@sarabonac Жыл бұрын

I do not have column browser on mac os Ventura 13.1 to convert to revert to old iTunes review. my problem is under artists I have the artists numerous times. How do I get all the artists's songs under one artists? example; Fleetwood Mac is listed more then once with a few songs. Then again listed under Fleetwood Mac one song.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

You may not havethe column browser turned on, but you do have it. Go to the songs view, Click on the view menu at the top, click column browser, and select show column browser. The artist's list is almost always a mess, and there are always multiple Artists for various reasons. Find the column browser (you can also access it from the songs view by clicking apple + B), and use that view to clean up errors, multiple artist, incorrect genres, etc...

@marcdeclercq5580 6 ай бұрын

Hello, i'm interested to work with multiple 'Music Media folder location files' in order to reduce the storage on my macbook-hdd. I would like te create a new Media folder, stored on an external hdd-drive, containing my Classical music library. Where can i find some information on this option? Thnx and merry xmas! Marc

@TheMacWhisperer 6 ай бұрын

It's a little complicated to manage multiple libraries like that. I understand the need, but I would focus on finding other ways to manage the space on your computer. I have a video that can help you find what is using the majority of your space. (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fc17esh8rdSrcYk.html) For me, since I have such a large music library and so many different categories I like to keep it all in one place. If you have Apple Music you can send songs to the cloud so that can also help with storage. It is possible to do what you are trying to do, but certainly not simple.

@AC_Mix Жыл бұрын

great video sir. do you have a video on how to import music files MP3's to the music library? I am having such a hard time. when I drag a folder with multiple mp3 songs into a new playlist I created in the music app, it imports them for a second, does the adjust volume t o all the songs, then removes the songs from the playlist. I have to re drop the folder into the playlist. and sometimes they import correctly, and sometimes only a few import. then I have to import individual songs into the playlist, and on certain mp3 songs it tells me the song will be deleted from iTunes cloud and will only be able to play on this computer, and I I hit ok, it imports it, but now I cant see that song on my iPhone. urghhhhhhh I miss iTunes so much. PS: this mp3 songs are from all over the place, some are songs I I edited as a DJ, some are songs I converted from KZfaq, some are songs I downloaded from a 3'rd party site. so not all the songs have all the artwork, album info, artist info, or song info correctly. could that be my problem? thanks-AC

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Don't drag them, go to the file menu and select import. Then once they show up in the master library, drag them to whatever playlists you want. Also, make sure in the preference section under files you have it set to copy your files into your library and you should have better results. let me know how it goes.

@AC_Mix Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer thank you sir I def will try this method. Cheers 🍻

@gpappas4332 9 ай бұрын

Hi Dylan, just found your video - truly helpful and excellent work. I started out on iTunes 19 years ago and have a lot of cleanup to do..just subscribed as well..look forward to reviewing your material. You also have an impressive music library.. I have a question -under the Music app, will my playlists and songs synchronize with my devices if they were imported from my own music and I am not an Apple Music subscriber? This is one of the mysteries I am trying to solve for. The other is that I have an Apple ID for iTunes where all of my purchases are made and another Apple ID for iCloud as it was born much later...does this affect my synching of music, playlists, etc. to my other devices? Thanks again for the great video! 🙏

@TheMacWhisperer 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@gpappas4332 9 ай бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks Dylan, do you have any insights on the two questions that I asked? Would appreciate your perspective. Thank you.

@TheMacWhisperer 9 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching! First off, you can synchronize with the Music app without having Apple Music, but it must be done manually through a cord. If you want to sync wirelessly Apple Music is necessary. With regard to having two accounts, it’s not an issue at all. I actually have a separate iCloud account with a completely distinct iTunes account. In settings on the computer in the phone you can designate separate Apple IDs for data (iCloud) and media (iTunes, video purchases, etc.) I actually recommend people set things up this way especially if they’re part of a family because then your iCloud accounts don’t get crisscrossed, and you can share music with the whole family.

@gpappas4332 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!@@TheMacWhisperer

@bnet32 2 ай бұрын

I have my library stored in an external hard drive. When I select add to library, it reorganizes the external hd to sort by artist the way that I don't like it. Especially, it touched the various artists folder. How can I do it, without the Music app disrupting the external hd organization?

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

Inside the music app preferences there is a setting to keep music organized… If you uncheck that it will leave your music organized in whatever way you haveit set manually.

@rickwalton2734 2 жыл бұрын

HELP- I loved the video, and tried to change the genre as you recommended. After a short while, my Apple Music reverts back to the original genres. I'd like to clean them up, but it keeps reseting after a short while. I'm using my MacBook too. Can you help me?

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Try doing it in small chunks. You are probably too much at a time and it is getting stuck syncing.

@alarson8355 Жыл бұрын

Is there anyway to do these things on windows 11? I struggle using iTunes. I keep my music on my iPad and iPhone to play and create playlists. One of my frustrations is that the album art keeps getting changed when I transfer it from iTunes on my pc to my iPad.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the windows version of iTunes has not been updated in forever, and the iPhone and iPad software is updated every year, so it’s far from the same experience. Also, as “the MacWhisperer” I don’t really focus on windows products or apps. With regard to the artwork, I would make sure that “automatically download artwork” is not turned on for the PC, since that might be creating the discrepancy. 🙂

@jamiehuntington-meath127 Жыл бұрын

How do you delete Genres?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

It's kind of stupid, but you can't just delete a genre. Genres are created because there is music filed under that genre. So to delete it you either need to delete the song that's connected to that genre, or change the song to a different genre all together. What I generally do is pick a genre that is wrong or that I no longer want to see, select all of the songs in it, click get info, and change them all to a more desirable genre or a placeholder genre like "miscellaneous"

@meetmeinva 4 ай бұрын

What about CDs that I’d imported into iTunes that are now missing in Apple Music?

@TheMacWhisperer 4 ай бұрын

There was a service called iTunes match that cost $25 a year and came before Apple Music that allowed your entire CD library to get synchronized with your Apple account. For people who didn’t use that, you need to start by finding where your music that you uploaded is. If it’s on an old computer or something we can bring it onto your new machine and then turn on Apple Music which will automatically synchronize all of that for you. In order to get it synced up you do need to have Apple Music and the first time you need to have the actual files. For people who can’t find the actual files I recommend just re-downloading all of that stuff on Apple Music now and if you can locate the actual files later we can integrate them in. Those files most likely disappeared because of being on a different device and not having iTunes match or Apple Music on the original device.

@stevennoriega1587 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with apple music is that when you go to an artist page and you see that there is already an "essentials" playlist,. When you add that to your library it adds it to the playlist section but those individual songs do not get added to the songs. I want to be able to get all my songs in one place so I can just hit play shuffle when as I carry on in my day. I do not want to have to be jumping from songs to playlists to hear certain artists. Any suggestions?

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

There is a super easy fix. In the settings (on the phone, iPad and computer) there is an option to add songs to library when adding to playlists. This should mean that when you add that playlist all the songs get added to your library. Then you can remove the playlists and keep the songs.

@jeffcomstock6826 Ай бұрын

Music? It seams that all my music from ITunes is not in in Music. Could that be? Great video, thank you.

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

Anything is possible. It really depends on how your files were set up in iTunes and whether things were migrated properly from any prior computers. If you can find a song that isn't there and search for that song on your computer and locate it somewhere other than the music library, it (and any other files in the same location) can be imported. If the music was purchased through Apple or iTunes, make sure you are logged in with the same iTunes/Apple ID, and you should be able to locate it that way. There are a lot of situations that could result in missing files, so it's hard to say for sure... can you tell me more?

@alphabo1 2 жыл бұрын

What about those who used iTunes for audiobooks? I have a library of almost 8,000audiobooks and all those in format 4mb get played by Books. Thats disgraceful because I can't have a certain author's books all together. Except converting hundreds and hundreds of files to mp3, any suggestions? Your channel is wonderful, keep up the great work, thank you

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

I've done some research on this, and you are right, Apple did a terrible job in managing this process. I am looking for a workaround and will let you know when I figure it out.

@alphabo1 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer If you manage to find a workaround I wold be very, very grateful. Thank you

@guytapper999 9 ай бұрын

Hi Dylan. I found this video looking for an answer to why my Apple Music app is behaving so badly. I had a very well organized iTunes library on my Mac. When I had a hard drive meltdown and got it fixed it came back to me upgraded to Catalina and Apple Music. I had to laboriously recreate by library which I was able to do . . .somewhat. But Apple Music has begun to quit on its own, and when it does now, or when I quit it manually, the changes and additions to the library are lost when I restart. Also, throughout my recreating process, the view options I set up for albums and playlists change back to a default setting rather than remaining the way I set them up. I know how to do the work correctly, but it doesn't stay the way I want it. Do you know of some incompatibility that might be causing these problems? Thanks. I'm at my wit's end as I am using clunky workarounds to collect and organize my huge digital collection.

@TheMacWhisperer 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! :)

@guytapper999 9 ай бұрын

Do you have any ideas on my question about the compatibility problem? Thanks.@@TheMacWhisperer

@rwoods7979 Жыл бұрын

i have a ton of unwanted artists how do i make them go away ?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

The easiest way is to go to your computer, select the Artists you don’t want, and click the delete button. If you go through the song view with the column browser enabled you should be able to select and delete all the info from any given artist with just a few clicks. If it is a dong you purchased from Apple you can’t “delete” it, but you can “hide” it, and then you won’t see it anymore.

@rickhorvath Жыл бұрын

Apple Music formerly iTunes got so bad regarding. Organizing your original music. It’s an aweful tune for meta tagging songs. It’s not even easy to add music to an iPhone because synching is not very useful. I need to find a way to find my songs easily by genre so I can submit them to music sups. I do have my own online site which I programmed which I had been around longer than disco and works very well but it takes a bit of time to add my own songs. If Apple Music had a more intuitive drag and drop into a new playlist that would be smart. But again I’d need to have everything tagged already. Mp3 tag for pc or Mac is the best tool for this. Read that again !

@squeakyg2161 8 ай бұрын

Oh no I messed up my genre trying to copy your instructions. How do you reset all and I mean ALL my songs to their correct original genres??? I had “ALL(#Artist)” highlighted when I was doing the change genre thing!! Please help me

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

So sorry... there is no easy way except to hit undo IMMEDIATELY after making a global mistake like that. In the future remember that command + Z will always undo the last few actions (which could have fixed that but not now)...

@squeakyg2161 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your reply! I did manage to fix my dumb mistake. Took forever to do one by one.

@GreggWeiss 9 ай бұрын

I need some help using Apple Music on my phone (streaming) along with my owned collection of mp3s I've ripped from my big CD collection. It is very important to me to be able to use BOTH. However, I am unable to create playlists on my phone using Apple Music (streaming) without clicking "yes" to "Organize My Library". I am nervous to click yes because I fear my file structure on my computer will get over-riden and files will be moved to new folders and all of my custom playlists based on song ratings, play count, etc etc etc will be over-riden. Any thoughts on this?

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

Click "sync library" on the computer first and it will match the computer's files and then do it on the phone. You can't do it easily from the phone first or it will get overwritten.

@butterbagboy 15 күн бұрын

When in artist view some of the little circles have pictures some don’t, has anyone figured out a way to add or edit those circle pictures?

@TheMacWhisperer 15 күн бұрын

Unfortunately it's not something we have a lot of control over. As long as you have turned on automatic artwork in preferences (in the advanced section) Apple will automatically add images for known artists. In the cases of artists that don't get artwork, it may be because their name is misspelled or entered in in a way that is different from how iTunes recognizes it. You can add artwork to the album… But not for the artist directly. If someone else figures out how please let me know.

@Normanc994 Ай бұрын

My desktop music library is a bit of a mess, including 1) multiple copies of songs, 2) loads of recordings from the original iTunes where "the original file could not be found" (Martin Luther King, Dylan Thomas, and Harry Potter among them!), 3) hundreds of Garageband songs I recorded, and 4) record albums I downloaded into iTunes. 1) Is there any way to group the songs with missing data together so they can all be deleted quickly? 2) Is there any way to consolidate the libraries from my laptop, desktop, iPhone, and iPad together -- assuming there is room?

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

Messy music libraries are pretty common these days. The first thing you can do is while in the song view, edit the view options to include cloud status, and then sort by that. That will put the duplicates together, and the missing files together. If you click on any of the missing files and locate one of the songs (they’re usually in the music library by artist name) it will attempt to associate the other songs as well. I’ve had some good success doing that although you have to do it multiple times to get them all. As far as synchronizing multiple devices there are two ways to do it… Several years ago Apple had a service called iTunes match That costs $25 per year. If you have a subscription to that you can use it to synchronize… Unfortunately they discontinued the service so you can no longer get a subscription if you don’t already have it. So if you don’t have that subscription the only other option is to use Apple Music Which will bring all your songs together and your devices going into the settings and clicking sync. Without Apple Music there’s no way to do it automatically. I do a lot of work with people cleaning up music libraries on a one-on-one basis… If that’s something you’re interested in looking into send me an email at dylan@themacwhisperer.com and we can schedule a remote session to get you pointed in the right direction.

@Normanc994 Ай бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Thanks greatly for your amazingly quick response! My view options are Title, Cloud Download, Cloud Status, Time, Artist, Bit Rate, Album, and Kind. I set the Library to "Show Exact Duplicate Item" with the Option key. Now, I'm working to eliminate the duplicates with the lower Bit Rate. Unfortunately, the "Cloud Status" column is empty for all of my songs. So, this should take a lot of time! I hadn't heard of iTunes Match, but apparently, it's still for sale ($24.99/year) in the iTunes Store. It "stores your entire music library in the Cloud, including music from CDs, and lets you enjoy it anywhere, anytime, on your iOS devices, computers, or Apple TV" It sounds great. The only problem is that they hold your entire music library hostage if you stop paying! It sounds a little bit like ransomware. It sounds like Apple Music includes (replaces) all that iTunes Match does. But it sounds a bit like giving Apple my entire music collection (including all the music I play and record) and then paying for the privilege of renting it back from them. Why rent a cow when I already have the milk? After I'm done dispensing with duplicates, I may very well schedule a remote with you. Thanks again!

@Normanc994 Ай бұрын

It looks like despite my misgivings, Apple Match was indeed the solution to the problem. The library on all my devices is growing. 4316 and counting! Despite this size, the "Cloud Status" column will now enable me to group the missing files together. Apparently, Apple Match enabled my Cloud to actually have some Status!

@JoeBoppyBop 2 ай бұрын

Hi, I have 300gb of music in my personal library. I’m an old school audiophile. I don’t want to stream. I want to access my own collection that I keep on an external drive and download the whole thing to my iPhone 12 running IOS 17.4.1. Lately when I sync my phone to the Music app on my Mac running Sonoma, I get some weird results. The biggest issue is that Music is organizing on my phone in a way that takes tracks from compilations and puts those tracks individually with other albums (in the album view) by the same artist.. it doesn’t do that to my Mac library, only my iPhone copy. I hate this! I meticulously maintain my library. I don’t want Apple to rearrange it or charge album artwork or do anything to change the way I’ve organized it. Did I do something to cause this? Is there a way I can fix it?

@TheMacWhisperer Ай бұрын

Unfortunately the iPhone music app is really intended to be used with Apple Music which synchronizes things automatically through the cloud. I understand not wanting to do that but the organization can suffer as a result. There is a setting inside the music app to not download album artwork, but it’s unpredictable at best. With regard to the compilations there are some tools that you can use but again since the music app is really on Apple Music it can be problematic. I’d be happy to do one on one session with you and take a look if you’re interested. Feel free to send me an email at dylan@themacwhisperer.com and we can schedule.

@christopherross3419 2 жыл бұрын

Hey! I’m so confused with my iCloud music library I had it working fine and plugged it in after I returned from vacation and it is messed up. I deleted all my music from my library and re-added it to Apple Music on my mac. It’s now telling me that it’s uploading 16k+ songs to iCloud and I only have 11k. I don’t know why it’s uploading more songs than I actually have? Is there any way of clearing my music in iCloud so I can re-up all the songs from my library? HELP!!

@TheMacWhisperer 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late response... are you still struggling with this?

@uaebig5330 4 ай бұрын

some songs or playlists doesn't have an artwork , why ?

@TheMacWhisperer 4 ай бұрын

There is a setting in Music that will download artwork if it is available. If the song was downloaded from some random source or uploaded from a mixed CD or something, it won’t match with the proper artwork, but you can always add any artwork you like to the song; you just have to do it manually by clicking apple + i and going to the artwork tab.

@josiahlawson5401 2 жыл бұрын

How do you keep your songs in your library and make sure they stay there on Apple Music

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

I’ve never had an issue with my songs leaving my library or getting removed from Apple Music so I guess you need to give me more information so I can help better.

@randygravel2057 2 жыл бұрын

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@LebenWerden 2 ай бұрын

What happen if you drop a song more then one time?

@TheMacWhisperer 2 ай бұрын

I don't understand... can you say more about your question?

@LebenWerden 2 ай бұрын

@@TheMacWhispererDoes the app prevent duplicate music files?

@jrc171974 2 жыл бұрын

Why some music that I own get this dot gray circle with a banner saying, "this song is not able in your country"?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Some songs may have streaming licensing issues. You "own" it, but cannot legally stream it, so it's greyed out. Unfortunately this is an issue with certain music publishers and I don't know any way around it.

@armenbeats2477 Жыл бұрын

Hello, found your videos on here and thought you could help me with an issue I am having with artists not showing up in alphabetical order from the the All Artists section under Artist from the Library column, when I go to view it only gives me the options to sort by title, genre, year, and rating and not the artist, it's absolutely driving me insane, I can have them alphabetically with your method from the songs tab but I want to use this app like a Spotify and see the album artwork and have the artists be in alphabetical order, if anyone else is having this issue and could please help me with it, it will be greatly appreciated!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

There isn't a choice to sort by Artist because in that view it SHOULD Automatically sort by Artist. I almost never use that view, but I checked it to answer this question, and for me the changing of the sort method does not affect the artists being alphabetical... Are your Artists just randomly ordered? Or are there a lot that are sorted right and a few that are out of whack?

@armenbeats2477 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer first and foremost thank you so very much for the reply and for your time, I also thought it would automatically sort alphabetically but it didn’t, they are all random to be honest and all out of place for some reason, for example 2Pac comes after Alicia Keys when it should be the other way around, I use MusicBrainz Picard to organize my music library with correct meta data so I don’t get the issue, anything for me to try would be greatly appreciated

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

@@armenbeats2477 I haven't used MusicBrainz in a decade or more, but that may be part of the issue. I would manually look at the metadata and confirm that Album Artist, and the Sort as info is accurate (by clicking on a song that is out of order and hitting command + i and spot-checking the data there for issues (like blank spaces, or inaccuracies). Not sure where the issue is happening, but I have to assume it is somewhere in the metadata that it's having the issue. I would also like to better understand why you want to go through the Artist view instead of one of the easier to manipulate views (like the song list or a custom created playlist)... if it's just because you want to see the album artwork on be aware that under the view menu of the song list (and playlists) you can select view options and turn artwork on and even adjust the artwork size... If you better explain your end goal (you can't say use Music like Spotify because I NEVER use Spotify and have no familiarity about how people use it) I may be able to give you additional solutions, but for now this is what I have for you. Hope it helps.

@armenbeats2477 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer I just want to see and have the artists in order, with their albums in orders all while seeing the album artwork, this is how Spotify is as you can view the entire artist discography, kind of like if you were to go to "show album in library" under the song tab when being n songs mode, I did not see the option to turn artwork on under the view menu of the song list and am running an update version of Music app with the most recent OS from Apple

@Cambryn18 8 ай бұрын

I was always an obsessive organised user when using iTunes, the only time that I try Apple Music, I used the trial for 3 months and regretted it profoundly because it messed with my library organisation. So no I only music as I used iTunes

@TheMacWhisperer 7 ай бұрын

That works... once I committed to Apple Music I was able to get the organization to work with me, but there are some things (like alphabetizing first name then last name) that I will never get used to. Ultimately you can keep things organized with your own methods as long as you ALWAYS manually adjust things. I just got tired of doing that, so I work with some things I disagree with (like my example above) and pick my organizational battles. But I love Apple Music now and use it to discover thousands of new artists EVERY year, which I could never afford to do on iTunes.

@josiahlawson5401 2 жыл бұрын

How do you keep your music in your library on Apple Music till it stay there

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

What do you mean?

@josiahlawson5401 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Some of my music keeps moving from my library

@gdubb4892 Жыл бұрын

Hi Dylan- two questions: 1) is there any way to stop Apple from making duplicates of my songs in my library? 2) I recently moved my library to a network drive so I can listen to my library without having my iMac on. But Apple Music now lists all of my music in both my old and new locations, even after I have deleted the library from the old location. How do I get Apple Music to only look at the new location? If I do a mass delete and try to “start over”, Apple also removes the music from my library, and not just from Apple Music. Any help is most appreciated!

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Try this :) 1. Way to stop Apple from making duplicates of my songs in my library -> Open iTunes / Apple Music. -> Go to File > Library > Show Duplicate Items. -> Select the tracks you wish to delete. -> Right-click > Delete from library.

@gdubb4892 Жыл бұрын

@@TheMacWhisperer Thank you. That’s how to delete the duplicates. I was hoping that you knew of a way to prevent the duplicates from being made in the first place. Also- did you see my second question? Thank you Dylan!

@pthomas776 Жыл бұрын

I wish apple music was as good and simple to use as windows and android.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! ;)

@MrSuperPepi 2 жыл бұрын

I just wish I could search on the Songs tab and not get the stupid alum/artist layout.

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Yeah, unfortunately it's just not the way they designed it. That why the column browser works so well for me.

@pauljackson6296 Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you. This omission makes the program useless. Is there any way to get it back again?

@TheMacWhisperer Жыл бұрын

Here's how I suggest doing it: So there is no way to revert to iTunes and its style, because it has been replaced many years ago by the Music App. In the Apple world (and the world as a whole) nothing stays the same forever, but I have found that I prefer Music now that I know how to use it. Here are some tips to replicate the iTunes way of finding and playing music: First off, view your library by clicking on the songs section on the left, and then under the view menu select column browser, and "show column browser". Then click in any of the columns (genre, artist, album) and start typing to immediately search whatever column you are in. You can also search directly in the song section by just clicking on any track in the lower area, and starting to type the name of a song. If you still need to search beyond that, you should see a search bubble in your upper left-hand corner. When you use that make sure you are selected on "my library" rather than Apple Music or the iTunes store. The search bubble is only ok, I prefer using the column browser Even though we can't go back to iTunes, you can make this app work almost the same way, with just a few modifications. And don't forget you can always use Siri to instantly find or play a specific song. To trigger Siri press and hold the command button and the space bar, and then tell her what you want to hear. Hope that helps!