How do I share my entire music library with my other computers?

Only a subset of my library is listed under my Shared Library. I have tried changing the settings under Preferences: Sharing to include the Entire Library, as well as dragging and dropping the contents of the entire Library into the Shared Library.  Still, only a small subset is in the "named" Shared file.  Help!

I suggest you give Home Sharing a try:
http://www.apple.com/support/homesharing/

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