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what exactly is: "music library.musiclibrary" in the new Catalina update?

What exactly is: "music library.musiclibrary" in the new Catalina update? I updated to macOS Catalina this morning and use PLEX Media Server to create Libraries for my devices. I want to make sure when I create a new library that it is looking in the right directory on my Mac. Do you use the old "iTunes" directory or something else?


thanks, John

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It is the replacement for iTunes Library.itl along with ~/Movies/TV/TV Library.tvlibrary and the hidden libraries for Podcasts and Books that exist somewhere inside ~/Library. If you've upgraded then your media is probably still in ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media, or whatever path for the media folder you had specified previously. Plex shouldn't need to interact with the apps, just point it at the folders where your media is stored.


tt2

Thanks tt2. Big help in understanding this.

You're welcome. 🙂


tt2

You wound’t be using the PLEX server would you?

I have Plex running on my Windows box, but not Catalina.


tt2

tks

John