[iTunes] Re: Sharing the itunes library on single mac

Russ Harlan russh at mac.com
Fri Oct 31 11:18:32 PST 2003


On Oct 31, 2003, at 1:14 PM, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> At 5:55 PM +0000 10/31/03, Brian O'Leary wrote:
>> My wife, children and I have seperate logins on an emac running 10.2.8
>>
>> I would like to share my library with my wife and then only manage a 
>> single library thereby saving the disc space and making the latest 
>> mp3, available to her when she is working
>
> I maintain my music in "/Users/Shared/iTunes Music/". It is accessible 
> to all logins. That seems to be the purpose of the Shared "user" space 
> - to provide for an area of common access.

Seems to me that Brian's  issue isn't the sharing itself, it's keeping 
the Library updated on his spouse's account.

The answer is: there is no answer yet. You spouse would just have to 
update her library in order to see the new music. (If someone has a 
better answer, please speak up.)



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