Front Row : Shared Users On Local Machine

If, like in my house, I have my wifes music on her login, and my music on mine (we have very different tastes), I can't see them both in Front Row. I have both collections on the same machine - just with different logins. Surely there must be a way ?

you can accomplish it by utilising fast user switching, keeping bothing user and iTunes session running, or redirecting and centralising the iTunes libraries, which could be trickier, the former is easier to achieve.

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