Filling iShuffle over a network connection - possible?

Hi, my wife and I have a Mac and a PC. My Music files are on my Mac and her music files are on her PC. She likes to listen to my music via a shared connection to my Mac (we set up sharing in iTunes on her pc in order to do this). What we are wondering is can she load up her iShuffle with shared songs from my music library on my Mac over the network via her PC? In other words, she not only wants to be able to plug her iShuffle into her PC and fill it up with songs from her own library (located on her PC) but also with songs from my library (located on my Mac) over a network connection. We don't want to have to transfer all of my Mac song files to her PC - that would seem like a waste of space and a bit redundant. So, is it possible to fill and iShuffle over a network connection?
Thanks,
John
Dell XPS M140 and Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi, my wife and I have a Mac and a PC. My Music files
are on my Mac and her music files are on her PC. She
likes to listen to my music via a shared connection
to my Mac (we set up sharing in iTunes on her pc in
order to do this). What we are wondering is can she
load up her iShuffle with shared songs from my music
library on my Mac over the network via her PC? In
other words, she not only wants to be able to plug
her iShuffle into her PC and fill it up with songs
from her own library (located on her PC) but also
with songs from my library (located on my Mac) over a
network connection. We don't want to have to transfer
all of my Mac song files to her PC - that would seem
like a waste of space and a bit redundant. So, is it
possible to fill and iShuffle over a network
connection?
In my experience, no...

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