Can't import songs using home sharing

Just bought a new macbook pro laptop, and I can't import my music library from my iMac using home sharing.
The library shows up as shared, but I can't drag any music into the library on my laptop.
Help would be greatly appreciated because I'm extremely frustrated.

I am curious as well. I also just bought a MacBook Air to use in addition to my iMac. I just made some purchases on iTunes and homesharing only allows you to stream, not physically sync the media back and forth, which is what I want.
This is going to be really annoying..

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