"I'm wondering if Catalina does away with the previous directory structure; that is, whether it'll still be possible to just copy the iTunes folder (or whatever it's called now) and use that copy if needed." I'm wondering about this too. It's looking to me like it has changed.
There should be 2 now: one for TV/Movies and one for music. There's a .tvlibrary file and a .musiclibrary file.
It is well known that companies have lost major market share by letting others take small bits of their market share and not being concerned about it. Some have eventually even lost all their market share by letting any of it go. Eventually, they will feel the pain. But they are too busy right now being up on cloud nine.
Thinking about it a bit, my view is that even if file &/or directory names have changed, and even if the structure or organization differs from the "old" iTunes, it's still just a collection of data to accessed by the app and likely not located in the read-only system volume. There is some more-or-less encouraging information here: Kirkville - Locations of Media Files in macOS Catalina So I'm a bit less concerned than I was. It would appear that music will be found in ~/Music...same as in iTunes. I'd like to test in on a non-critical MBP I have, but that machine won't support Catalina. Prudent thing to do is just be patient and see what develops.
You can extract most (not all) of the metadata associated with your iTunes library using the File / Library / Export Playlist menu item. This will create a plain text (tab delimited) or XML file that includes Play Count, Last Played Time, etc (caveat: this is for iTunes on a Mac, I'm not certain the same is true for Windows but it probably is). The tab delimited file has these columns:- Code: [vvv@macbook ~ 7]$ tr '\r' '\n' < Music.txt | head -1 | tr '\t' '\n' | nl 1 Name 2 Artist 3 Composer 4 Album 5 Grouping 6 Work 7 Movement Number 8 Movement Count 9 Movement Name 10 Genre 11 Size 12 Time 13 Disc Number 14 Disc Count 15 Track Number 16 Track Count 17 Year 18 Date Modified 19 Date Added 20 Bit Rate 21 Sample Rate 22 Volume Adjustment 23 Kind 24 Equalizer 25 Comments 26 Plays 27 Last Played 28 Skips 29 Last Skipped 30 My Rating 31 Location
Catalina .1 upgrade has just been released, should fix some of the issues. Servers are slow atm certainly from the UK, also phone/watch and iPad updates.
Didn’t fix the filtering. Selecting an individual album in album view still takes you back to the top of the playlist after you view the tracks. Syncing is still slow and ambiguous.
The .1 upgrade did fix the one problem I was having: my iPod Mini was syncing just fine, but my 160G Classic was getting hung up on Loading in the Finder window. It found it immediately this morning. I took a recommendation I'd seen here or elsewhere and restored it to factory settings, and it started syncing immediately. My personal artwork is all where it should be, the app loads quickly when I open it, CD ripping is fast and stable, and it sounds good. At this point, I have no real complaints!
Sounds good. Now we need the Remote app fixed. Then, I might be in. Inexcusable to not be able to control Music from a mobile device.
I think I'm downgrading to Mojave for now. Not sure this will ever be fixed. Also, i noticed that Swinsian too has trouble to locate the artwork. So, it's the clue that points out to the problem being the changed location for the artwork (inside mac's libraries now).
I wish I had seen this thread before updating. I can't sync any new music to my iPhone after upgrading to Catalina. I don't use the Music subscription, but have a large library. It's now impossible to add new songs to my phone after the update. When I try to sync using the finder, it just spins and spins. I've left it for an hour once, and it didn't sync a single additional song, just kept spinning. They also got rid of the search playlists function.
Yes. When I try to sync using the finder, it just spins and spins. I've left it for an hour once, and it didn't sync a single additional song, just kept spinning.
Mine took a very long time the first few times, but now it syncs just fine. I’ve got 19,000 tracks on my phone.
I burnt a CD last night and the whole thing's changed. The only way to know it's burning is a microscopic line under the playlists. And I had to reset all the parameters.
Apple, as is so often the case, did not find out what users actually wanted before they did this. Several people at work have been seriously impacted and as the "reluctant Mac network guy" they have come to me. Since this really isn't a work issue I've not been too impacted but the level of frustration has been serious.
According to my experience the only reliable location for album artwork is embedded directly in the audio file.
I keep coming across a loud digital scratch or skip sound listening on Swinsian. My library was ripped from my CDs (which are now in storage across the country from me) and i went out to find another copy of the digital file for the song i found the noise on and replaced it and the sound still snapped. its always at the end of a song. Any ideas?