[iTunes] Re: Sharing iTunes Library between Windows & Mac

[Ronald Claiborne]

Well, 

	I suppose it depends how you share the files out on the windows box.
If you set it up as a CIFS or SMB share, it wouldn't matter to iTunes as
long as it has access to the share. However I'd expect performance between
songs might not be optimal. Only one way to find out...

	You can share play lists as far as I know only if you are running
iTunes on both machines. For example, I set up all of my play lists on my
main working machine and have iTunes sharing on. I can go downstairs and I
see all of the play lists on my Windows box.

	You might be able to copy play lists from one machine to another by
moving some of the XML files, but it probably wouldn't be pretty. I suspect
you would have to edit the file to reference the location of all of the
files. Mac and Windows use different ways to specify a directory, so it
could bet nasty.

	
RC 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:itunes-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Golovniov
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2006 7:01 AM
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Subject: Re: [iTunes] Re: Sharing iTunes Library between Windows & Mac

> You can share your iTunes library on the local subnet by going into 
> the share option of either the Windows or Mac version of iTunes.

Yes. Sorry I was not precise enough in my question. Let's say there is a
Windows machine containing several GB of music files. If you have iTunes
running on this machine and a Mac sitting on the same subnet, you can share
the whole collection via iTunes Sharing. But what if the Windows computer is
too weak to run iTunes? Is "Windows Sharing" you only option? As for the
"iTunes Sharing," can you create playlists using the songs shared on another
machine in your subnet? Thanks.
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