[iTunes] moving music between libraries

[benaccetto at mac.com]

Click on My Computer.
Open the Shared Documents folder, you can either use the Shared Music  
folder or make a new folder.
Open each individual users' folder (ie. Becca's Documents).
Open the My Music folder, then iTunes, then iTunes Music. Drag the  
files in there to the Shared Music folder.
For each user, open iTunes. Go to Edit -> Preferences.
Click on the Advanced Tab.
Click the Change button under the iTunes Music folder location.  
Navigate to the My Computers -> Shared Documents -> Shared Music (or  
what you named your music folder). Click on OK.
Say Yes to the "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" dialog.

All of your users will now point to the same library and any future  
music will be added to the same library. You will probably have to  
make individual playlists for each of the users and then sync any  
iPods to each individual playlist.

Hope this helps.

On Mar 7, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Becca Price wrote:

> OK, I'm really a neophyte at this: I'm not sure where the iTunes
> library is stored, or what the file name would be to look for
> it. I'm not even sure where the Shared Documents folder would
> be.
>
> I'd like to have just my daughter's music in her instance of
> iTunes and my audiobooks in my instance rather than sharing the
> same library: is that possible? currently they're all in one
> library.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give me!
>
> -Becca
>
> --- Benjamin Ing <vbing at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> Put your iTunes library into the Shared Documents folder and
>> then
>> point all of the user's iTunes to that folder through the
>> preferences
>> menu. You will find yourself with extra space since you don't
>> have to
>> have multiple copies of the same song in each individual user
>> space.
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Becca Price wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to move music from one instance of iTunes
>> to
>>> another? We have different logins on my computer (separate
>>> logins for me, my husband, each of the kids) and I didn't
>>> realize that each login goes to a different instance of
>> iTunes.
>>> I loaded a bunch of my daughter's music into my instance of
>>> iTunes not realizing that they don't show up when she logs
>> in as
>>> herself. I'd really rather not have to re-load the music
>> from
>>> scratch from all those CDs, if there's a easier way to do
>> it. We
>>> use Windows XP.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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