[iTunes] moving music between libraries

[Becca Price]

wonderful! thank you!

-becca

--- benaccetto at mac.com wrote:

> 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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