Take Control of macOS Media Apps

Organize Your Music and Create Playlists

You’ve got your favorite music in your library, but you’d like to organize it better. In this chapter, I’ll show you how to make playlists, the key to setting up your listening sessions. I’ll look at using tags to create smart playlists that fill automatically with your favorite tunes. And I’ll cover some special topics that will help you with tasks like finding your media files on your disk, managing a large music library, and finding duplicates.

On Playlists

You can listen to your music by album, or by selecting song after song. You can play all the music by a specific artist, or you can shuffle your entire library. But the Music app reveals its biggest strength when you make playlists.

A playlist ...