iTunes Match will handle all the music for you reasonably smartly if you let it. Only place I could see being an issue is if you have ripped a lot of your own music in Lossless or a higher bitrate than 256. Apple will not move your originals but download a 256 AAC file which would probably not be to your liking.
When I do this between computers I then transport my AIFFs or lossless files to the new library, which creates duplicates as you mention and then I keep the better file. Since I know match does this for any song of 256 or greater, music lets you filter by type and bitrate so it’s not a surprise which ones it will choose to do this with. I have never tried any of this with movies or video of any kind... no idea how that kind of thing works. On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 15:19, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Smuggers, > > I may have complicated my life unnecessarily here... > > I have a 2010 Mac Pro with oodles of disk space, including all my music, > TV and films. Some from iTunes/Apple, much is not. When I moved to a mac > mini in December, I left all the files there (nearly 2 TB) and kept syncing > my iPhone and iPad with it as the Mac mini had tiny amounts of space. > > Now I'm trying to move that too and am not sure how to approach it. When I > used Migration Assistant to move to the Mac mini, it must have analysed the > iTunes library into discrete libraries for TV, Music etc. Short of > re-migrating (not an option), how can I carry over the info in the iTunes > library *and* the files, keeping the links live? (I've had terrible > problems in the past with this when moving the library, loads gets lost > even when I do it from within iTunes via Consolidate Library). > > I'd rather not simply import all the files as that will create duplicates > in music (I have iTunes Match) and set everything to 'unwatched'. > > Any suggestions? > > Cheers, > > Jason > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/65EE86A4-B2C6-43B0-8FB7-4B741E49A498%40me.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/65EE86A4-B2C6-43B0-8FB7-4B741E49A498%40me.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/CAEjhqLQ7fRgB%3DQNQPBGMzW5cpUQbF7NB76htnW5K_sCnDLfG6A%40mail.gmail.com.
