VIDEO: iTunes to Apple Music

Here's how to move your entire DJ library from iTunes to Apple Music with all your playlists, beat grids, album artwork, track metadata, and all of your tracks. First, we're going to import our library from iTunes into MIXO. You can see here we've got our entire library in iTunes with all our playlists, tracks, and metadata. To export our library from iTunes, we go to the File menu Library, then Export Library. Choose a folder to export to. Remember where this file is as you'll need it in the next step, and then click Save Library XML. So then we head over to MIXO, go to the import page and choose iTunes from the list of DJ software. If your playlists do not appear, we just need to find the file you just saved. So click Change File and select the file we just exported from iTunes in your local folders. MIXO will read the entire library from iTunes and then show us a list of all our playlists at the top of the import page. You can choose to turn off Track Analysis if you like, although we recommend keeping it on. Track Analysis will go through all your tracks and get the album artwork saved in each track, and it'll also build a waveform for each track and analyse the beat grid. If you turn Track Analysis off then your import will be a lot faster, but you won't have artwork, waveforms or beat grids in MIXO. But if you're just exporting your library directly to another DJ software, then you might not need that data. If you'd like to start with a fresh MIXO library, enable Mirror Mode. Mirror Mode will completely replace your MIXO library with the library you're importing, so all your playlists and tracks will match your iTunes library exactly. If you don't have Mirror Mode on then MIXO will merge your import with your existing MIXO library to speed up the import. Mirror mode will analyse any new tracks in the import and use the previously analysed info for tracks that were already in your library. If you want to you can re analyse tracks for your whole library or certain playlists after the import is complete. Once we've chosen our settings and our database file then we can choose to import either the entire library or we can choose individual playlists. When everything is set, hit the start import button and MIXO is going to begin importing our library. MIXO will save all the tracks using metadata info from the iTunes XML. It will then go through and analyse each track to import cue points and beat grids in the track tags, plus get the artwork and build the waveforms. This import may take a bit of time depending on how many playlists we choose and how big our library is, so you might want to get a cup of tea or even leave your import overnight. Once the import is complete, we can head over to the library in MIXO and you'll see all our playlists, tracks, and album artwork have been imported from iTunes. We can now use MIXO as our main DJ library. MIXO lets us edit our playlists, import music from other DJ software, sync our entire DJ library to the cloud, listen to our music on all our devices, and export our library to other DJ software. Now we've imported our library into MIXO, let's transfer everything over to Apple Music. Before we do anything in MIXO, let's have a look at Apple Music. And you can see there's nothing showing in the library. So it's ready for us to import everything from MIXO. So we load up MIXO and from the menu at the top we hit the Export tab, which gives us a list of all the DJ software we can export to. Select Apple Music from this list, and from here we can choose to export the entire MIXO library or select individual playlists we'd like to export. At the top of the export page we can take the option to save MIXO tags to Comments, which will overwrite the comments field on each track with the tags that have been added in MIXO if you like. Once we're ready and we've chosen the playlist, to move to Apple Music, simply click Start Export. Once the export is finished, MIXO will confirm the export is complete and from here we can head over to Apple Music. In Apple Music, go to the top left corner and click on File Library, Import Playlists. Then we choose the folder Music. MIXO exports Apple Music and select the XML file we just exported from MIXO. Apple Music will go ahead and import all our playlists and here you can see all the playlists have been imported and are ready to play. Now we've moved our library, let's have a look at what else we can do with MIXO. The first thing you'll definitely want to do is connect your Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive so that MIXO can sync your DJ library across all your devices. Once you're connected, MIXO will upload all your tracks and playlists to your own cloud storage, so they're backed up in your own secure and private cloud. You can then download MIXO on your phone, tablet or any laptop or desktop and MIXO will automatically sync all your playlists and tracks to all your devices, so you can edit, access and export your music from anywhere to any device. You can also use MIXO to export your tracks to USB, ready to play in your favourite hardware. With MIXO, you can export directly to the REKORDBOX, USB Device Library or Device Library Plus to Engine DJ format or as a Virtual DJ library. When exporting to USB, your MIXO library will look just like it was exported from your DJ software, including all your playlists, cue points, beat grids, album artwork, metadata, and more. Export to USB is also available on the mobile app so you can export your playlists directly from your phone once your library is in the cloud. You can also play your library with CarPlay or Android Auto in your car so you can enjoy all your purchase music on the go, just like you can with Spotify, Apple Music or your favourite streaming service. MIXO also has a Spotify Track Matcher tool that allows you to put together playlists in Spotify and then have MIXO locate the tracks from your own collection and save it as your own playlist in MIXO. MIXO also comes with lots of library management tools such as Track Analysis, Duplicate Finder, Que and Key converter, Find and Replace scanners, and all the general playlist and track management tools that you'd expect. Have a look at our website or YouTube channel to find detailed tutorials on all these amazing features or e-mail us at team@MIXO.DJ and we'll be delighted to help with your DJ library.