How to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive - relocate iTunes

Great Job...still referring to this video in 2023 as I did the iTunes Library move on another laptop.

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Thank youuu so much this was really helpful.....tech master🥺❤️

Thank you, a very clear and easy to follow tutorial well presented and easy to understand each section.

Thanks for this great video...the only video on this topic that makes sense...and I hope you will be happy to hear that one hundred years after you created this video, your method still works.

Thank you for the easy to follow video I just did what you said and it works! For those using PC hold SHIFT while opening iTunes to get the pop up to choose the library.

I wish I’d seen this before I completely buggered my library!!

Can I open copied files after saving, to a windows 11 computer?

Yo Steve not sure if your still on you tube but I have a question. How to fix when songs are grayed out and won't play. How to restore those songs.

Thanks Steve! I just successfully completed the transfer. Your video is the one that worked for me. Very simple. My music library has nearly 18,000 music files....so when it came time to Empty Trash and delete...i held my breathe...until I checked everything on the external drive.

Now it's my turn to try this.. I want to transfer all my music to a hard drive plus keep my music folder with itunes to stay on my PC as well. I'm just copying to put into my car HDD system. Great video!

Thank you very good video

12 years later this video is still helping people. I saw video after video of complicated ways to do move your music to another hard drive. Even though iTunes has changed a little, this still works PERFECTLY. I literally copied my iTunes folder to an external drive, shut down iTunes, opened it while holding "Shift" (Windows 11 PC), and changed the library name/path! It was AWESOME!!! Thank you StevesMacFix.

Thank you so much for that great and simple tutorial, i ve seen so many wrong ones before i get to this one.
Btw for all the people like me that use a pc hold down the shift key while you open iTunes to chose the library location. Cheers!

Thank-you!

How do you do backup from iTunes going forward once you moved it to the external hard drive? Thank you.

Hey, Steve, I'm using MacOS Monterrey (the latest) on Mac 24. Half of the CDs I've copied say track 1 in all tracks instead of track 1, track 2, track 3, etc. Any idea??? Thanks

cant thank you enough for this video, it has helped me so much! bless your genius abilities and so simple to follow

Great Explanation ‼️ New Subscriber. Vinny 🇺🇸

That was very clear! Thanks a lot Steve!

Steve how can I put back iTunes music from external driver ? How can I get it back to normal

Thank you, this did exactly that! now I have my music on my new computer !

Hi Steve, is it possible to call or email you? We have a large iTunes library and I need to set up a clone on a separate iMac. I'd very much appreciate either being able to call you or have an email address. Many thanks. Grahame Maclean/NorthStar Music Publishing Ltd.

Very helpful 👍

can you tell me how to do it in mac os big sur

Will you be making a new video now that iTunes doesn't exist and changed to Apply Music?

Does this still work in 2020 ?

how do you have the black icons? that's what i really wanna know now. lol

Thanks! Still works in 2020

thank you I had 103 gigs of music on my hard drive this opened a ton of space

I am running a newer version and when I hold down option, it does not bring the popup to select library. Please help

Hi

great tutorial, what if I'm running on windows and want to create iTunes on an external drive. Once copied how do I point to the library?

Best tutorial I've seen on how to setup your iTunes library to an external hard drive. I ran out of space on my iMac. Thanks for taking the time to make this tutorial.

I have a question, I have I tunes on PC not MAC. I want to back it up. but as your video shows you did not back it up you moved it to a external drive. so if some thing happens to your external drive you are sol. yes

Sir
I am a learning DJ I have a software that’s called Serato DJ lite I was wondering does this method work with Serato DJ lite

Fantastic, thanks Steve !!

Hi all.
Is it possible to convert music files from musicbee into Itunes?
Enrique.

Awesome! I'm a DJ and 200 gigs of music.

thank you for this !! it was successful!!

Will it work on a iPad?

Will this keep my play count and the last played on my songs?

Hey mate I’m using an asus flip book with very low storage. Now when I get to the part where you hold alt options to open iTunes and choose // I need help with getting that choose screen to pop up ??

All good I figured it out!! You press hold shift and open it 👌

Is there a tutorial on how to do this with Windows PC?

Do you have a tutorial on how to recover lost playlist? Thanks!

question? what is the process of relocating ITunes back to my mac . Please advise .

very detailed and thorough as what to do with visuals.!!! less room for error.