Itunes and multiple macs

I presently have two Macs and can't seem to figure out how to sync Itunes. Can't it be done (sure hope so) and if so how? Thanks

Try posting in the iTunes for Mac forum. You'll be more likely to get help there than you will here in the iTunes for Windows forum.
Good luck.

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Ok I'm starting to understand why some people find itunes aggravating.
I have 3 macs in our home, an apple tv(silly us), and 2 iphones. My main machine is a mac pro and we have two laptops. The mac pro does an amazing job keeping the apple tv synced(wirelessly) and the ipods. However I run into problems with the laptops.
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* So Question - if I copy over the itunes library files to the laptops- will that transfer the song and playlists over correctly - or will there be volume/directory problems.
Has anyone written a utility to make this process easier?
Apple if your listening -
* port the excellent syncing code that you use on apple tv to your normal machines. If I'm allowed to authorize 5 machines for my itunes content - allow me to easily move my data to those machines. As I stated Apple TV does a great job remotely - just extend this functionality to my macbook and macbook pro.
* please add functionality to detect new files in a folder and automatically add them to the library. This way if I acquire new content I can just do a simple chronosync to move the files over.
* Ideally if my wife buys a song with her iphone or on her laptop - we want that music to be added to the "ecosystem" and synced back to the main machine. Luckily she mostly just buys CDs and I rip them for her - but it's a pain.
Anyway thx for the help. And if this is a dead horse I apologize.

I agree:
I have a G4 at work and an iMac at home, one ipod nano, and would like itunes to allow me to duplicate what the excellent "rsync" unix utility does:
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