Applications :: ITunes - Sharing Accounts?
May 18, 2009In my iMac there are 2 accounts (me and my wife). Each one has an account and musics in iTunes.
How can we share our musics in the library?
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Jan 3, 2009I had this working a while back... but (I can only think it's since I upgraded to iTunes 8) this has now stopped working...
1. I have moved my iTunes Music folder to /users/shared...
2. I go into iTunes preferences and change the location of the Music Library...
3. Restart iTunes...
4. Then I go into iTunes and it works - it's reading songs and movies from the shared location fine...
When I login as a different user (any admin user), repeat steps 2 and 3 and nothing - the library is empty when it's restarted
I also tried this hack from another site around 18 months ago...
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The instructions are pretty much the same, although this involves creating aliases of the iTunes music library.xml file - but didn't seem to make any difference to the outcome
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Currently:
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eg. account A and B stuff on my Iphone and account A and B stuff on my iPad.
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When I try to select it as the source of music in my wife's account, there are no errors, but nothing happens, the music is not added to her iTunes, it just stays in the welcome screen, where to find music, etc.Â
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I have tried - Â
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