How do we share music across Vista accounts?
I have Windows Vista. Each person in my family has their own account. We all want to have access to all our music, so I have put it in Public\Public Music.
When I copy a CD onto our PC, it is automatically saved in the My Music folder of the person who is logged on. So when other people log on, they don't have access to it. It is a real pain moving the music manually into the Public\Public Music directory. I have looked for a default directory for when CDs are copied into iTunes, without success.
Is there a default directory that I can set to Public\Public Music?
Is Public\Public Music the best way to share our music across multiple Vista users?
Thanks
JohnRR
I have looked for a default directory for when CDs are copied into iTunes, without success.
Is there a default directory that I can set to Public\Public Music?
iTunes preferences -> Advanced - iTunes Music folder location
Once that's set, all future imports and purchases will be saved in that location. Note that since iTunes has no folder-watching capability, each user other than the user who does the import or purchase will have to add the tracks to his/her iTunes library manually unless a third-party solution is used. Here are a couple of potential solutions from other developers:
http://albumbrowser.klarita.net/iTunesFolderWatch.html
http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes- to-any-folders-175161.php
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