Don’t just say”use something else”. Here is the issue: I have my music loaded on to an old laptop using iTunes. I have this library, together with loads of playlists, synced with Apple Music (via iCloud). This has worked reasonably well over the years, meaning I can play my music on my iPad and also over my Sonos speakers. Now, my ancient laptop is on its last legs, so I thought that I’d copy the music files over to my slightly newer laptop via an external hard drive. This was completed eventually. After syncing this ‘new’ iTunes with iCloud, I eventually got all the music, and playlists, visible – and the tracks play when selected. The issue is that all the entries for the music show the ‘download’ icon. As the files are present on the laptop I would have thought that they were already downloaded, so I fear that I may not have set up the new library correctly. I had copied the files to ‘Music’ in the ‘iTunes Media’ folder. So, the questions are: a) does anyone know where I should have moved the files to, and b) how would I download the marked files anyway, other than » Continue Reading.
