How to share my iTunes Music Library

Question

My wife and I each have our own iPod and we want to share one Music Library on our desktop computer. I follwed the instructions in iTunes:" How to share music between different accounts on a single computer". This entailed moving the iTunes Music Folder to a publicly accessible location:
c:\Shared Documents\Shared Music\iTunes Music
I can access my library, but my wife cannot. I used EDIT, Preferences, Advanced to change the location in her account to the above path, but still no luck.
The path actually displays as:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\iTunes Music
What to do?
Tom

Answer 1

We share a library by using separate playlists for each iPod.
I'll try to explain.
If your iPod is connected to your computer And iTunes is up and running , you should see it listed along the left hand side of iTunes. If you single click on its name, you can also change its name.
1) Create a playlist that you would like associated with that iPod. Give the Playlist a name that is useful to you - perhaps similar to the name you gave the iPod. eg. "Person 1's iPod" and "Person 1's Playlist."
Go to the EDIT Menu at the top of iTunes and select PREFERENCES
Click on IPOD tab.
Click on MUSIC tab
select AUTOMATICALLY UPDATE SELECTED PLAYLISTS ONLY
select the Playlist or playlists that you want on that particular iPOd (eg. ""Person 1's)
That's how We've been doing it.
If up until now , you've been doing it manually, be aware of what the difference is. (between manual and automatic update)
If you have nothing in Person 1's playlist, then the result will be nothing in Person 1's iPod.
You should be able to go back to your old way just by de -selecting those options in the same Preferences area if you don't like this system.
 I hope this helps. Good luck.