Thanks again all - after a two hour session last night using my wife’s 2014 mbp, my external drive and a very patient Apple advisor we managed to get all the music onto my phone. Subscription isn’t for me as yet (and as per the suggestion to up my cloud storage, that doesn’t work for locally uploaded music anyway) since I have some music that’s not available from those services. I’m also of the generation that still wants to own stuff, not just rent it.
Thanks again all - after a two hour session last night using my wife’s 2014 mbp, my external drive and a very patient Apple advisor we managed to get all the music onto my phone. Subscription isn’t for me as yet (and as per the suggestion to up my cloud storage, that doesn’t work for locally uploaded music anyway) since I have some music that’s not available from those services. I’m also of the generation that still wants to own stuff, not just rent it.