{"id":55671,"date":"2019-11-12T08:52:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T14:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=55671"},"modified":"2019-11-14T09:21:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T15:21:46","slug":"move-or-manage-the-music-apple-tv-and-podcasts-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/55671-move-or-manage-the-music-apple-tv-and-podcasts-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Move or Manage the Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

macOS Catalina\u2019s new media apps – Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts – are the replacement for the older iTunes app, which handled most of these media types in a single application. And while iTunes may have a reputation with some users as being a poor performer, the Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts apps may not be off to a stellar beginning, either, at least as indicated by the comments received on our various articles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One area that’s a bit of a mixed bag is the ability to manage the various app libraries. The normal location for all of the media libraries is on the Mac’s startup drive. If your primary Mac is one of the laptop models, there’s a reasonable chance that you don’t have a lot of available space on the startup drive. Many MacBook models only have a small SSD<\/a>, or if you’re using an old MacBook, a slow rotational drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The point is that if you have a large media collection that you’re using with Music, Apple TV, or Podcasts, you may run up against the limited space on the startup drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to manage this problem is to move the media apps libraries to a new location that has plenty of free space<\/a> to house your ever-growing collection of music and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the most part, the media apps allow you to move their libraries to just about any place on your Mac, to an external drive, or even a network drive. A network drive can lead to a few issues, though, so for this article, we’ll concentrate on moving the media libraries to an external drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re moving a media library to a new location on the startup drive, that’s possible, too, with the following restriction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You must choose a location within the User space and not within the various system directories or at the root level of the startup drive. You may have heard references in the past to system space and user space. While it’s beyond the scope of this article to delve too deeply into the concept, macOS Catalina forces a distinct separation between the two spaces, which wasn’t as robustly enforced in previous versions of the OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can find out a bit more in the Rocket Yard guides:<\/p>\n\n\n\n