Make iTunes your own

ONCE YOU’VE REDISCOVERED old iTunes Store purchases, you may want to start adding more content to your library. Although you can sign up for Apple Music to access millions of tracks, you might add music from CDs, or tracks you’ve purchased elsewhere online.

While ripping music from CDs is less common these days, you may well have other media you’ve purchased online from Amazon or maybe even artists’ own websites, or downloaded for free from sites). One little known feature of iTunes is that adding this content to your library is as simple as using the copy and paste commands in Finder. Say you have a folder of MP3 files provided as a bonus for buying a vinyl album from an artist’s online store, which is a fairly common thing these days; simply copy or move that folder to the one named “Automatically Add to iTunes.” You’ll find the latter folder located in /Users/