ITunes 2021

Apple iTunes is dead, as an application yes, but in the background absolutely not.

Introduction

In 2021 the status is that Apple has split iTunes into 3-4 different apps:

• Music
• Podcasts
• TV
• Voice Memo (official this one does not belong into this list).

In the background, the folder structure, iTunes is still very much alive.

iTunes back-end

The Apps, and their initial/basic locations:

Application	Entry	Short Description	Description	Location
Music	Apple Music	DRM Apple music	Apple leased Music.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Apple Music
	Music	Free own Music	Private music collection of the user.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music
TV	Home Videos	My Home Videos	Private video collection of the user.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Home Videos
	Movies	DRM Videos	The leased/bought video collection of the user.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Videos
Podcasts	Podcasts	My podcasts	The podcast collection of the user.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Podcasts
Voice Memo	Voice Memos	My voice memos	The voice memeo collection of the user.	~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Voice Memos

The complete list looks like:

$ la "~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media"
total 32
-rw-r--r--@   1 frielink1  staff    10K Oct 10 12:48 .DS_Store
-rw-r--r--@   1 frielink1  staff   305B Jun 26  2010 .iTunes Preferences.plist
drwxr-xr-x  245 frielink1  staff   7.7K Oct  7 11:07 Apple Music
drwxr-xr-x@   3 frielink1  staff    96B Oct 12  2019 Automatically Add to Music.localized
drwxr-xr-x@   3 frielink1  staff    96B Oct 16  2019 Automatically Add to TV.localized
drwxr-xr-x    2 frielink1  staff    64B Jun 26  2010 Automatically Add to iTunes
drwxr-xr-x@   2 frielink1  staff    64B Sep 26  2019 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x@   2 frielink1  staff    64B Oct 19 17:37 Downloads-Music
drwxr-xr-x@   2 frielink1  staff    64B Jan  7  2020 Downloads-TV
drwxr-xr-x  249 frielink1  staff   7.8K Jul 20  2020 Home Videos
drwxr-xr-x    3 frielink1  staff    96B Jun 21  2018 Mobile Applications
drwxr-xr-x  114 frielink1  staff   3.6K Apr  2  2018 Movies
drwxr-xr-x  694 frielink1  staff    22K Oct 16 16:41 Music
drwxr-xr-x   14 frielink1  staff   448B Dec 31  2018 Podcasts
drwxr-xr-x@   3 frielink1  staff    96B Apr 24  2018 Voice Memos

Music Migration

Apple has made a website if you like to change the place Apple stores it music or want to migrate.
Below I give 2 examples, but there are much more topics on the support wwbsite.

• Apple Support - Apple Music, Customise the Music window on Mac.
• Apple Support - Apple Music, Change where your music files are stored on Mac.