I decided to clean up this mess and look for something new. After looking into the directory where said library was supposed to be I only saw years of different iTunes libraries, directories for Podcasts, Audio-books, iTunes libraries from 2011 and other cruft. It wasn’t opening it any more and was asking for the “Library File”. Until today, when I switched from macOS Mojave to Catalina and Music.app messing up my library. Both of them are amazing tools in the music organizer’s tool box. Incoming files were tagged with Yate and Beets. Over the years I fed my library with ALAC files converted from FLAC files via XLD and meticulously maintained my library. This meant I couldn’t download tracks for offline consumption and always felt a bit awkward as I actively had to jump through hoops to use both of them which obviously didn’t feel right. That hybrid solution was to have Apple Music enabled but without the Cloud Music Library. After messing up my library once, by enabling Cloud Music Library, in the early days of Apple Music and ending up with duplicate Apple Music tracks injected in my own ripped albums I ran with a hybrid solution for now. I could still tag it with my own tools, tags were written to the files, the folder structure was organized nicely and all was well. I didn’t exactly love iTunes during the last few iterations but even with Apple Music slowly creeping into the interface it was still the same old - powerful - iTunes under the hood.
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