DVD drive sharing issue

Hi,
how can I create my music library in iTune (to sync with my iPod) on my Macbook Air since remote DVD sharing from my other Macs does not let me do it? Apple selling point for not having a DVD drive on the Macbook Air is that you can use DVD drive sharing.
drive.
I'm hoping for an official answer from Apple since, I own the origininal audio CDs, and all the Apple hardware and software and just trying to do what is advertised as possible without infinging anyone's property rights.
Thank you.

Could anyone please help?
(Or is this question under the wrong rubric (networking!) here...?)

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My apologies for writing gibberish.
I thought this was a more common issue, as I have read a lot about DVD drive sharing and Remote Install but I am not able to find a straight answer to my very simple situation.
I have one old MacBook Pro that I bought the year 2006. It's the one sporting the Silver keyboard. The DVD drive is Broken (yes, there's a third option smarty pants. ). The Hard Drive in here is Erased.
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Thank you very much that you are seeing us as experts :)
We all here are Toshiba notebook users and as you probably dont know this is a user-to-user forum. :) so maybe not really experts ;)
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Of course you can get some advices ;)
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