HT201085 can you share downloaded music with family members?

Can you share downloaded music with family members?

Hi olddawg66,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
There is a new process called Family Sharing that I would suggest you take a look at.
Family Sharing
Have a great day,
Joe

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    Can you share kindle books using family sharing?

    Hi Charlie42,
    Happy New Year!  The link below explains how you can tell which purchased content is available to share using Family Sharing.   Contact Amazon for more specifics regarding sharing their content.  The Kindle app itself may be shareable, but the books may be considered an In-App purchase, making them not shareable.  Amazon would be able to give you a definitive answer.
    Which purchased content can I share using Family Sharing - Apple Support
    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203046
    Which purchased content can I share using Family Sharing
    After you set up Family Sharing, the eligible songs, albums, movies, TV shows, books, and apps purchased by family members will be available to everyone else in the group. Learn what you can share with your family members.
    If you turned on Share My Purchases, you can share most content that's also available in iTunes in the Cloud. You can share Music, Movies, and TV shows from the iTunes Store. You can also share Books that you downloaded from the iBooks Store, and apps from the App Store. The availability of each content type depends on your country.
    There are a few things that you can't share:
    Songs added to iTunes Match from outside the iTunes Store
    In-App Purchases
    Items that are no longer available on the iTunes Store
    Items that were hidden
    Apps that aren't shareable
    If you're on an Apple TV, you can't access shared music.See if you can share an app
    Use these steps to see if you can share an app before or after you get it.
    App Store in iOS 8
    Go to the app's description page. Scroll down to the Information section. If you can share it, you'll see Yes next to Family Sharing.
    Go to Updates > Purchased > My Purchases. If you can't share an app, you'll see Not Shareable next to its name.
    Mac App Store in OS X Yosemite
    Go to the app's description page and check the Information section. If you can share it, you'll see Yes next to Family Sharing.
    Go to Purchases. If you can't share an app, you'll see Not Shareable next to its name.
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    If one of your family members received their content through Apple ID for Students, you won’t see it in their shared purchases. This includes apps and other content distributed through the school.
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    Last Modified: Nov 14, 2014
    Cheers,
    Judy

  • Can you share your itunes with someone over long distance

    can you share your library with someone that isn't on the same wifi network as you?

    No. Same wifi and same Apple ID is needed.

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    I have been very happily using 2 Airport expresses to share my itunes library from my iMac to 2 other rooms. I just bought an Apple TV for the bedroom (and I ASSUMED to replace the Airport Express), and can not figure out any possible way to have the same music in 3 rooms any more.
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    I think you may have misunderstood the OP, I believe they wish to be able to walk from room to room and listen to the same music over the tv and the express. itunes will send music to the tv and the express at the same time but in two different streams, so even if you chose the same music over each device it would be quite difficult to sync.

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    Yes if the BT device supports the profiles supported by the iPod. See:
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    The A2DP provide is used with speaker and headphones
    The Hands Free profiles (HFP) is typically used with headset (headphones and mic).

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    Has anybody figured out how to share iCloud drive with family members?
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    You can only share iCloud Drive with someone else if they also log in to the same account.  Otherwise, your sharing will be limited to the sharing options of the file itself, which is extremely limited.  Hopefully they will add more options as time goes on, but for now, thats where iCloud Drive is at, in its infancy.
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  • HT3819 How can I share my music with another apple ID device

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    The correct answer to your question is No - you cannot "share" Music with another device using a different Apple ID. Can you make it work - yes you can.
    You do not want to sign into the other Apple ID and download the purchased music because you will lock yourself out of your own Apple ID for 90 days. Apple does this in order to discourage users from "sharing" purchased content that they did not buy themselves.
    Whatever you decide to do, just don't download the music from the purchased tab in iTunes, because you don't want to lock yourself out of your own ID for 90 days.
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  • How can I share my music with my wife's account?

    My family has multiple accounts on various devices (IPods, IPad) that share one IMac. How can I share the music on my account with my wife's account? My music doesn't show up on her account and vice/versa.

    I'm sorry to say, unless you're using apples pay service, that allows you to upload your own music, there is no way to do that. I'm assuming that the music you are talking about has not been purchased through them. If it has, then you can redownload it to any devices from within your app.
    I personally dont think its fair that you can't import music from your own online sources, but apple isnt in the busness of giving us what we want, just what will make them money.
    You could also look into some of the rare apps that have been allowed to slip through such as 8player or vlc. One of those might be able to pull from your own online source, but I cant say for sure, and its unlikely is will work very well. I personally have started using a third party cloud service to store backups of my music, that might be something to look into. 

  • How can I share itunes music with others who use this computer??

    I want to share my music with my granddaughter and she wants to share hers with me. We use the same computer but log in with different accounts. If the music is in the computer is seems there should be a way to share all the music.  Can we do that??

    There are sharing abilities built into iTunes.  In the iTunes Help menu just type in "share."
    I personally don't care for the way iTunes shares music.  I have taken a different route.  I use file sharing to share my Music folder with my wife.
    From the Finder window right or control click on Music.
    Select Get Info
    At the bottom of Get Info click on the lock icon to unlock changes
    Under Sharing click on the + to add access to another user.
    Select you daughters id. and add her.
    Give her Read Access.
    Click on the Gear icon on the bottom and select "Apply to enclosed items."
    Have you daughter do the same for you.  You will now have access to each others music.
    There are several ways you can listen to each others music.
    To listen to just one song I just use the Finder method.  Open Finder and click in the spotlight search field (upper right).  Type in some criteria (i.e. Artist, partial title, album name).  Files will appear in the finder window.  Select the icon view option.  You should see album artwork.  Move your mouse over the track you want to listen to and your should see a play button appear. Not sure which OSX versions support this (10.6 does).  Click on the play button.  If you don't see a play button you can play by selecting Get Info.  There is a play button in the preview section.  You can also play with Quick View.
    To listen to a playlist you will need a multimedia player like VLC (google it if you don't have it).
    From iTunes you can export your playlist from File > Library > Export Playlist... (.m3u works well)  Give your daughter read write access to the playlist file and from the Open With entry select VLC. (use the get info method)
    Copy the playlist file to you daughters drop box in her public folder.  Have your daughter use the get info function to make sure her copy still points to VLC and not to iTunes.  If you open the playlist file with iTunes it may copy the tune files to her library. (don't want to end up with multiple copies of tunes on your Mac)
    Double clicking on the playlist file will open VLC and begin playing.  There is a playlist button on VLC to view, sort and select tunes from the list.
    Phew!  Hope that helped.
    Dan
    P.S.  Haven't tested this with copy protected stuff.

  • Can you share purchased books with Home Sharing?

    Can you share purchased books (from IBooks) with Home Sharing? Music seems to share fine-books seem to be a problem.

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    My family has multiple devices under one apple ID.  I want to share only certain apps with certain family members.  Is it possible to limit what apps are shared with which devices or do I need to share all of the apps that I download for personal use?

    Thanks.  I turned off the automatic downloads on the new devices (minis), but when I go into the app store I don't see any of the apps I have bought (for my original iPad) under "purchased".  I was thinking that this was the logical place to find those apps that I want to download to the new devices.  What am aI missing?

  • I cannot share my music with family with new iTunes

    I have followed all of the steps to share music between my account and my husband's account, but cannot transfer music.  I can't transfer purchased music or music I downloaded from a cd. I have followed all of the proper steps to do this, but I am not able to drag music to my library.  I have restarted, turn sharing on and off, checked apple id....everything and still have trouble.  I have the latest version of iTunes on both computers.  I do not know what to do next.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Hello constanceok,
    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. 
    I see where you have tried a lot of steps to get your music sharing to work. I would recommend first taking another look at this article and following the steps in order, even if you have already tried most or all of them. I have found that frustrating issues such as this often result from missing a step or getting one out of order. 
    How to share music and video with iTunes - Apple Support
    If you are still having trouble, this article provides troubleshooting suggestions. 
    Troubleshooting Home Sharing - Apple Support
    Regards,
    Jeff D. 

  • Can I share iTunes library with family?

    Long story short, my sister has a TON of music. She's bought it all either from iTunes or she has the CDs. I know technically it's illegal to even copy the CDs so I'm guessing it's illegal for me to copy her library and add it into mine. I am going to buy the music, but I was wondering what your feelings are on this and what the rules say. She just moved out so she's not part of the house hold any more but my sisters and I have her music. I really don't feel like spending a thousand bucks on buying the songs from iTunes but am prepared to do so over the next few years. The home sharing allows for something like this, but the problem is, the main computer just moved out lol.

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    I have enabled iTunes on my main computer for home sharing. I can play the iTunes music on my netbook using my home group. Do I need to download the iTunes store to my netbook for any reason? Do I gain more features of sharing if I do?

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    on your netbook, you will now see your main itunes library on left
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  • How do I share purchased movies with family members?

    Can I share a purchased movie or TV show with other family members NOT using Home Sharing?  Can I transfer the purchase (like a gift) to someone else?

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