Networking iTunes and central location for music

Starting to get really frustrated with something I think should be simple. We have multiple computers in our home and a Mac Mini server I'd like to use for a centralized location for ALL of our iTunes music. I've created a shared media library for all of the media I've downloaded to the server and can see it on all of the computers. HOWEVER, we just made our first iTunes purchase since setting this all up, only to discover we can't download music directly to the server - we have to download it to the individual computer, copy it to the server, then manually add it to the server's library. ***?
There's got to be a better way to do this. Can't we have all of the computers in the house reading from the server, and when new music is added set it all to go to the same library on the server that updates automatically when new files are added? Anyone help?
Thanks.

Jolly Giant wrote:
while you wait for your feature request(s) to be implemented, you might want to have a look @ this (rather old, to be sure) article.
And make sure to read all the comments posted at the end of that article; there are a number of sad stories of users who didn't heed the restrictions and others who were confused by the typos and poor editing of the story (particularly the complication produced by the unnecessary use of DropBox in the procedure.)
-Steve

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