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Hack Attack: Share your iTunes music library over your home network - Lifehacker

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colryn

MAtbe I am wrong but these directions are specific to itunes on Windows. Now I found some directions to do this sort of thing on a mac. But I was very disappointed on how it works. I shared my itunes music library in the preferences. I turned on file sharing in system preferances. Then I went to another computer on my network which was a windows box. I started itunes and my library was accessible. I thought cool. It works.

But what I noticed was I had to be logged in as mself on the mac in order to see the music. If I logged out, my music library is unavalible. This stinks.

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Yeah, I think that changed when they released Tiger.

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colryn

To make matters worse, my wife wanted to listen to some music from my library while checking her e-mail. She was not able to access my itunes because she has her own username. She cannot access my music. They better fix this issue. This is should not be a music sharing violation. The music in on the computer.

I just thought of something. Can I move my music directory to the shared user on the comupter? Could she be able to access the files from her username then?
Only a portion of my music is protected. Most of my stuff are ripped from my CD's.

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Yeah, you should be able to share the library that way. Just make sure both of your iTunes programs point to the same location.

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