Take Control of macOS Media Apps

Manage and Share Media Files

One of the advantages of apps such as Music, TV, Podcasts, and Books is that you don’t need to think about files. When you add files to these apps’ libraries, they are stored on your Mac in specific locations, but you rarely need to manipulate them in the Finder. However, if you have a large media library, you may need to consider offloading your files from your Mac to an external drive.

In this chapter, I discuss how you can manage large media libraries, and also how to share your music over a network to other devices.

How the Media Apps Organize Files

A useful aspect of the Music and TV apps is that they free you from having to worry about organizing the actual files they manage. When you add a file to Music or ...