[hiredgoon]

hows it hangin everyone?

anyone know if it is possible to share my itunes library on my pc with itunes on mac over a network?

peace.

[dt]

You can always do Library Sharing, or are you wanting to be able to play your songs on the PC when your mac is off and vice versa?

[hiredgoon]

hi dt,

no, not when its off.

i tried the method of turning sharing on in my pc library, but the mac will not read the library file (when i open itunes i press option, then go to the folder)

[dt]

I was referring to the library sharing feature within iTunes. It works well for me.

Set it up in the "Sharing" tab of the preferences in iTunes, both computers need to have iTunes running, and it should appear in your sidebar in the other computer's iTunes.

Then you can just play the songs as if they were on your local computer. It works both ways between the Mac<-->PC.

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[froggy]

Originally Posted by dt

I was referring to the library sharing feature within iTunes. It works well for me.

Set it up in the "Sharing" tab of the preferences in iTunes, both computers need to have iTunes running, and it should appear in your sidebar in the other computer's iTunes.

Then you can just play the songs as if they were on your local computer. It works both ways between the Mac<-->PC.

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Is that what I should do for multiple users on my iMac, so that we all have access to everything?

Cheers,
Andrew

[recd]

Originally Posted by dt

I was referring to the library sharing feature within iTunes. It works well for me.

Set it up in the "Sharing" tab of the preferences in iTunes, both computers need to have iTunes running, and it should appear in your sidebar in the other computer's iTunes.

Then you can just play the songs as if they were on your local computer. It works both ways between the Mac<-->PC.

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Might also need to make some changes to the firewall settings to enable on the Mac-> system preferences->sharing->Firewall-> Tick iTunes music sharing. On the PC depends on the firewall program??

[hiredgoon]

legend!

i ended up having to turn on itunes library sharing in system preferences... and wouldnt you know - the mac opened up the sys pref window, just to make it easy for me.

i was almost on a rooster!

thanks again.

[dt]

Glad it worked for you I think it's quite a good feature actually.

[Petronius]

Originally Posted by froggy

Is that what I should do for multiple users on my iMac, so that we all have access to everything?

If you stay logged in, with iTunes running, you can share your library so that other users who log into the same Mac can see the shared library.

There are probably other ways to do it, such as storing your music in a shared folder, and each user having an iTunes library (database) that looks at that shared folder. But then you would each have to periodically scan for new music to add to the library database.

Or you could buy a NAS that has a media server built in to it.