Moved into Dorm...Shared Music??

I just moved into my dorm room and on itunes it has shared music and it has peoples music..
i dont know what this is and how do i disable it?

iTunes allows music sharing. One or more people in your dowm must have their music shared.
To control whether you see this shared music, or, if
you share your music. Select the "sharing" pane in iTunes preferences.

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Sharing music from two different iTunes accounts

I have an iTunes account with purchased music which is shared across two users on my home iMac. We can download music to various ipods with our own playlists because each user has their own login on the iMac.
With a new iPad mini, one user will be adding apps and potentially new music choices and will pay for it separately. With a separate iTunes account, how will those purchases syncronize back to the iMac?
Will (or can) new music purchased on the mini be loaded into the Shared Music folder upon syncing?

If you mean iTunes Store accounts, there's really nothing for you to do. Just add the tracks to the iTunes library and play them. Music purchased prior to late-2009 will been to be authorized, though. Pull down Store > Authorize... and type the credentials of the Apple ID used to buy the tracks.
If you mean something else, please describe in more detail.

2 ipods, 2 user names... sharing music ?

ok so i've been reading posts into "how to get two ipod minis going at the same time on one computer with different user names... ok so i understand most of it but there is one question...
"i want 90% of the current library on the new ipod, if i move my current library into the shared music folder will i just have all the songs??? is it possible to delete off one user accounts library and still keep the songs on the other library???"
also is it possible to reverse the "consolidating the library" process to free up memory again after the new user account has been formed??
help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Oliver, Good morning.
First Question :
This can Be Done Automaticaly By Your iPod From the shared Music Doc. But You can also Do it manualy and Click - drag all Your songs to Your iPod.. (this is easyier).
Second Question:
Yes, Go To " Preferences", then Go To " Advanced " and Go Un-check The "Copy Files To The itunes Music Folder When Adding To Library ".. This Should Get You Rid Of The Consolidating Helper.
M.

Import button not working - moving shared music to library

My import button is showing, but I can't click it (it's faded, not as bright as operating buttons). I have shared my old computer's library and am trying to import the shared music to my library. I currently appears on the new computer, but I can't get the import button to work. Yes, I do have both accounts and passwords matched up.

You can't load shared music into the iPod. You can play the songs on your computer, but you can't copy them to your own personal library nor to the iPod. The only thing I could suggest you do is move all of the shared music to your own computer and/or copy the songs from the original CD's to your computer.

How come only 5 users a day can access shared music?

I just moved into the dorms, and all the other people's shared music keeps saying that it will only allow 5 users a day to access others' shared music. How can we change that so we can all share each others' music?

Sorry, but you can't change it. That limit was incorporated into iTunes by demand of the record companies and is not user-settable.

Questions on organizing/sharing music files on 3 PC networked drive

I just added 1Tb network drive to 3 pc home network... I am planning on moving my iTunes music folder from the older, smaller network drive. I exceeded the 160GB size of the old drive when converting all of the WMA losselss files to Apple lossless while maintaining the old WMA files(I still think the Windows Media Player system is superior). With the new addition to our network, I am planning on the 3 pcs sharing music files... (my wife has been using iTunes for a while, I have just recently went over to the dark side)
What is the best way to organize the files??
-How to shuffle all without the folder of Christmas & Holiday music playing.
-Segregate each users individual files.
Any advice or suggestions are appreciated, I know it would save a lot of time and pain instead of the trial and error method.

Thanks, Jason & Mike. This is how I resolved the problem. Turned out the disk with the data was in NTFS format. Neither my eMac nor my wife's Carbon iMac (prehistoric, in other words) was able to read it, on repeated attempts. In process I discovered (to my surprise) that the external hard drive attached to my eMac (a 320 Gig My Book) was formatted in FAT 32 format, and that the PC laptop (Thinkpad) read from it, and wrote to it, without any problem. (Is FAT 32 less than optimal for use with a pre-Intel Mac?). So I just copied the needed files from the NTFS disk to the FAT 32 disk, via the Thinkpad. When I reconnected the FAT 32 drive to the eMac, it turned out that it was easy [with some fiddling] to put the titles of the new music into the iTunes Library, without having to copy the music itself into iTunes. Making playlists does still seem to have to go manually. Sometimes the "New Playlist from Selection" option automatically gives a name (the original name) to the album from which the music came, sometimes it doesn't. Rationale not clear to me. Other problem: often the sequence is jumbled (this is after I added the whole collection of folders containing music to my iTunes Library in one fell swoop). Usually it was possible to correct this by copying track names for albums one album at a time from the external HD (in Columns view, selecting all the tracks in each folder simultaneously) directly into the playlist; the playlist name then always had to be copied or typed in separately. I don't know if I'm missing an easier route. Also, I see that I have version 4.7.1 of iTunes - I'll download a newer version! Don't know whether newer version will affect what I want to do in a positive sense.

Sharing Music Library with multiple accts on a computer

I've tried following the instructions to share a single music library between 2 users accounts on the same comupter. While I've moved the music library to the Shared Document folder, only one user can see the library.
Is there something else I can try/check?
Thanks!

Hi, jstock.
It sounds like you're following the instructions in this article in the Apple Knowledge Base.
Make sure you follow the steps in the last section To listen to another account's music files which brings the files from the Shared Music folder into the other account's iTunes Library.

Trying to sign into Home Sharing hangs iTunes 10.1.1

Has anyone else had this issue?
Updated to 10.1.1 this morning on one of my PCs and I can't sign into Home Sharing. I click Create Home Share and iTunes hangs and needs killing via task manager.
I've got iTunes on another PC running 10.1.0.56 and signing into Home Sharing there is fine.
Any ideas?

I've had similar issues with iTunes hanging.
Looks like your library is messed up.
I've moved all of my library files from:
C:\Users\[Username]\Music\iTunes
As in:
iTunes Library*
And
iTunes Music Library.xml
After that iTunes was starting up again.

Sharing Music: using one iTunes account for two users on one MacBook Air

I'm trying to set up my parents on their new MacBook Air and I have set up an account for each of them. To keep their music collection simple & compact I want them both to use one iTunes account on the one machine. Can two separate users work off the same iTunes account on the one machine?
I have tried the Home Sharing function but this seems to be for separate machines rather than accounts.
I have also tried putting the music into a shared folder but this hasn't worked properly for me as the secondary account is able to purchase (but not download) the music correctly from iTunes.
Any help appreciated. Thank you.

I'm trying to set up my parents on their new MacBook Air and I have set up an account for each of them. To keep their music collection simple & compact I want them both to use one iTunes account on the one machine. Can two separate users work off the same iTunes account on the one machine?
I have tried the Home Sharing function but this seems to be for separate machines rather than accounts.
I have also tried putting the music into a shared folder but this hasn't worked properly for me as the secondary account is able to purchase (but not download) the music correctly from iTunes.
Any help appreciated. Thank you.

Sharing music on the same pc with different accounts

I am sharing music and movies on the same pc but managing it with different accounts. Recently, when I add new content in the public folde, it only shows up in the one account that I adde it to and not the other accounts.

If you want all users to be able to access the same music, but with different libraries, NikkiG's advice is spot on. However, I thought I'd throw in my 2¢ since I just set this up for a friend.
If you want all your users to have exactly the same library, and not just access to a shared library, do the following:
-move the entire "iTunes" folder (~/Music/iTunes) into the Shared folder or to separate drive.
-in each user's account, remove the iTunes folders (or just move them to a new location until you're positive this method works for you)
-pop open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and here's where it gets a little dicey; type the following into the command line:
ln -s /Users/Shared/iTunes/ ~/Music/iTunes/
What this does is create a symbolic link (think alias, but more technical and powerful) between the iTunes folder in the Shared folder, and each user's iTunes folder. This way, each user is directly accessing the iTunes library, and not just through the shared area in iTunes itself. This allows them to add/remove music and playlists to the same library.
HOWEVER, this method will mess up if you have multiple users logged in and using iTunes at the same time.

Sharing Music Help! 2 Users Accounts, 2 iTunes accounts, share SOME music??

Hi - I'm new to Mac and iTunes all together (finally joined the cult... and love it!)
Anyways, My ideal setup is to have 2 User Accounts and 2 Separate iTunes Accounts so my bf and I can buy our own music, obtain separate libraries, yet share SOME music. I want to see all of MY music in the Music Library when I log in, but I still want to be able to transfer some of his music to my phone's playlist and vice versa.
Currently, our Itunes libraries are stored on each of our user profiles /users/name/music. When I log into iTunes, I see my music and [if his user account is logged on] I can see his under SHARED. But that doesn't allow me to transfer his music to my playlists and in the end, my phone.
I read Apple's how-to on pointing each of our iTunes to Users/Shared and but then whenever I'm in iTunes it would just be a huge pool of both our music and I have to weed through all of his.
Any suggestions on how we can both maintain our separate libraries/accounts but share some music (not just listen to each other's music).

In the Finder. I should have said "In the Finder, create the folder /Users/Shared/Music".
In case it wasn't clear, all of the instructions should be carried out in the Finder. iTunes should definitely not be running when you move your library and create the aliases.
A few additional points:
1. There's nothing significant about the folder location /Users/Shared/Music. You can substitute the name of any folder you want, provided all users will be able to read and write to it.
2. Beware of having two or more users accessing your shared Music library *at the same time*. (Since you mentioned you want to share your music between two users on a single MacBook, I assumed only one user would access the library at a time.) This only becomes an issue if at some time in the future you share a library in this way between two computers over a networked drive. If two or more users are making simultaneous changes to the same iTunes library, they will stomp all over each other's changes, and very likely corrupt the library. Note that it's also possible to corrupt your music library if you both are simultaneously logged in on your MacBook via "Fast User Switching", and are both simultaneousy running iTunes and making changes to the library. So don't do that. (Not that you ever would.)

Sharing music between 2 accounts on one computer

I have 2 accounts on my Windows XP Pro machine, both of which can see and utilise iTunes (though unfortunately, not at the same time - though this is another problem entirely). Both of these users iTunes accounts have been set so that they utilise the same 'shared' music folder. To do this, I have switched both users iTunes Music Folder Location to be:-
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\iTunes Music
I do not seem to be able to add music that already exist as mp3's to this folder using one account and then have them visible on the other users iTunes account. To do this I have to import the mp3's again for this User.
However, importing music from Audio cd's do not seem to suffer the same problem.
This surely can't be right. Has anyone got a workaround for this?
Additional info - I do not use the facility to copy imported tracks into the iTunes Music Folder - purely for space saving reasons, and do not want to use this functionality.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Windows XP Pro

If you copied these files to her iTunes directory, you certainly should have seen music in her library when opening iTunes. I suspect that even if you copied these files, when you launched iTunes it was using a different copy of these. Where did you put them? By default, they would be in her ..\My Music\iTunes folder. You can put them anywhere you want, but you have to tell iTunes which one to open. Try this:
1- Re-copy your files to a known folder that is accessible from her account.
2- Log into her account, press and hold the Shift key while you start iTunes.
3- At the "Choose Library or Create Library" prompt, select "Choose Library".
4- Navigate to where you put the "iTunes Library.itl" file from step #1.
This forces her iTunes to use the specific iTunes Library.itl file and should now display the same library that you see in your own iTunes.

Sharing music with Itunes and windows XP

Hi Everyone,
I am new to this group, but couldn't find anywhere else to ask for help!! I have searched this database, but could not find an answer that worked for my problem!
I am PC based and have several computers all running windows 2000. They all have itunes running and are very happy to share the music. I just purchased a new HP machine running windows XP and cannot get Itunes on this machine to share its music, or see any of the other machines shared music. I have read various messages about setting port 5353 and have tried this but with no success, I completely disabled my firewall but still not success? Does anyone know why XP will not see the other computers shared music or share its music? I have tried sharing the directory (with the Itunes music)on the new machine but still no success! I can go into itunes on one of my other machines and "add folder" so that the other machine see's the directory on my new machine with all the music, but I would like to share the music via Itunes? Maybe I am being naive! but it works for 2000 why not XP?
Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks Gary

Thanks Rachyl,
The link was how to share files, I can do that, my problem is that the itunes programs on my XP machine will not speak to or listen to the itunes programs running on any other machine (mac or windows 2000). I would like to know how to get the XP machine to communicate with the other computers and then share its music.
Many thanks Gary

Playing Shared Music Via Front Row

I've just got an IMAC Intel core 2 Duo and I'm having trouble playing shared music via Front Row. I have five accounts on my machine and can play any shared music via itunes but cannot access them via Front Row...........any ideas?

If you had the option of storing your media on a separate hard drive, I guess I'd have to ask for a few more details about your current arrangement before making any more recommendations. For example, why do you have five different user accounts, all logged in, all playing iTunes and all sharing songs at the same time? Could you not consolidate all of the media onto the Mac mini (or an external drive plugged into the Mac mini) and have the Mac mini doing all the iTunes sharing? So, when another user wants to listen to some music, they can play it from the Mac mini, rather than the other way around?
-Doug

Wired vs. Wireless network visability to shared music on a NAS

I have upgraded to 10.2.1.1 iTunes, I am running a wired network in my home that also has a WAP connected for my wireless devices. The issue is, when connected to the wireless I can see my shared music that resides on my NAS in iTunes. If I connect my laptop to the wired network, the share disappears.
Why is this?

As a client OS X supports the major two VPN protocols, PPTP and L2TP over IPSec. As a server technically OS X supports both of these too but the difference is this sort of thing was more aimed at OS X Server so there is no nice GUI to work with.
Of course I wouldn't have suggested this if there wasn't a nicer solution at hand. I'm sure there are others too but what I know works (as I use it) is [iVPN|http://macserve.org.uk/projects/ivpn>, essentially a GUI wrapper to the already installed daemons. As far as performance goes it's dependent on both your connection at home and the connection wherever you are but then that would also be the case if trying to access the NAS remotely anyway. I'd also guess this will result in a safer connection too as the file sharing protocols you're using probably aren't concerned about encryption.
The only thing I'd say is I do believe there are issues if both the home network and the place you are at are both using the same private IP range, assuming both locations are behind a router. The reason being if both use the same range how can your machine know when you mean one network and not the other. Careful selection of the IP range at home though can minimise this by choosing a non-standard private IP range. So a lot of home routers, the majority I've come into contact with anyway use 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx. The entire 10.xxx.xxx.xxx though, assuming the router allows you to do so is open and if you pick something in the upper half the chances of both places doing the same has to be very slim.

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