MacLife - USA (2020-09)

You can’t switch libraries inside the Music or TV apps

— to open a different library, just quit and relaunch.

WHEN YOU USE the Music or

TV apps, all of your locally

stored content — things

you’ve downloaded to your

Mac or imported from local Ľles — is

stored in a single library. And that’s great,

mostly. But sometimes you might want to

have more than one library to keep things

separate. So, for example, you might not

want your home videos alongside your

Manage media libraries

The easy way to organize multiple media libraries in macOS Catalina

downloaded TV shows, or you might use

your Mac for DJ sets and want to keep your

deep cuts well away from your guilty

pleasures or the kids’ favorites. Perhaps

your library is absolutely massive and you

want to have a smaller version you can

keep on your mobile Mac. Or maybe

you want to have diļerent preferences

for diļerent libraries so you can apply

diļerent display options or parental

settings. Whatever the reason, it’s easy

to have and switch between diļerent

media libraries on your Mac.

In macOS Catalina, the Music and TV

apps support multiple libraries, and they

do it in pretty much the same way. Simply

hold down the Opt key as you launch the

app and you’ll be given the option to

choose or create a library. To return

to normal, quit the app and repeat the

process for the library you want to return

to. As we’ll see in this tutorial, it’s

all very straightforward, and you can also

customize the way things work in order

to avoid duplication or confusion.

CARRIE MARSHALL

REQUIRES

macOS 10.15

or later

YOU WILL LEARN

How to use

different libraries

for Music and TV

IT WILL TAKE

10 minutes

GENIUS TIP

Changing libraries affects

the content stored on

your Mac and/or

connected external

storage: Music and TV

streaming is tied to your

Apple ID.

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