Home sharing problem between macbook pro and win7 pc

I tried to enable home sharing between my macbook pro and my windows 7 desktop to copy songs (mac --> pc and vice versa). I can share my mbp itunes library to my pc, but i can't do it the other way. i tried troubleshooting, from turning home sharing on and off on both computers, to restarting my router, but still to no avail. i want to copy songs from my pc to my mac this time as i've purchased some songs on the pc and want to sync them with my mac. please help me on this.

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