"Music" Folder is Out of Place

[Hrothgar]

I'm not sure this is a problem. My Music library is on an external Samsung T7 drive. Here's a pic of the file structure. You'll see that there's an iTunes folder, with iTunes Media inside. There's a Music folder under iTunes that has some of my music files. But most of my music files are in the other Music folder all the way at the bottom. I'm not sure how I ended up with two Music files. Everything seems to work ok, and files from both folders appear in my Music.
I'd like to have all of my music files in one folder, nested in the iTunes folder. If I cut and paste all of the files in the bottom Music folder into the Music folder that's nested within iTunes, will that screw up my "Music Library" folder?
Should I just leave well enough alone?

 

[ApfelKuchen]

If it's all working you may want to leave it alone.

If you start moving folders around, Music/iTunes will not know where those folders have gone. The songs in the Library list will start showing exclamation mark-icons to indicate the music can't be found. Double-clicking should give you the option to assign a new location for the files, but that part of the clean-up can take some time. Finally, you also would want to check Music/iTunes preferences for the currently-assigned location of the Music/iTunes Media folder - that may have to be updated to reflect any changes you make to the folder structure.

 

[Boyd01]

Not completely sure how that happened. But be careful about putting your library on an external drive. Unless you set it up manually, the library database (.itl file in iTunes on Mojave, but this may have changed with Catalina) will always be on your startup disk. So, if you start iTunes/Music and the external drive is not connected then the database gets loaded but it can't find the actual media and this can corrupt the database. Happened to me once and it was a mess to fix. However, you can manually move the .itl file to the external drive and that will also work. That way, if the external drive isn't connected Itunes will give you an error message but nothing gets corrupted.

Anyway, In the Music (or iTunes) preferences, if you check "keep media folder organized" and "automatically copy files to media folder" I think it will consolidate all your files in the default folder(s). I like this option and have never had any problems with it over the years, but some people don't like it and prefer to organize things their own way.

 

[Hrothgar]

I moved the itl file to the external drive and pointed Music there. There are instructions on the Google for how to do it.
I swap this drive between two Macs, so I need everything on the external, or it gets all screwed up when I make changes to metadata on one computer.