Party Shuffle with shared library

Is there anyway to use Party Shuffle on a remote computer with a shared library as the source? I have all my music on my G5 but my laptop is what I use during parties.

It's been that way ever since Party Shuffle appeared in iTunes.
One way I used to do it when I had my music library on a desktop computer and I was using a PowerBook was to use remote desktop software like VNC to control the remote computer.
Or if you quit out of iTunes on the remote computer and use file sharing to mount the remote file system you could hold the Option key down on your local computer and then select the library on the shared volume. I haven't tried this but I think it may work. Changing libraries was something introduced in the latest version of iTunes, although I don't think this was what they had in mind when introduced it.

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Party Shuffling a shared library

Dear All,
Does anybody know if there is a way of party shuffling a shared library?
My music library lives downstairs in the living room, at my iMac, and is shared wirelessly with a windows laptop elsewhere in the house.
I don't generally listen by any method other than Party Shuffle - but I can't seem to do that on the itunes on the laptop.
I can play all the music in the shared library randomly by pressing the random button at the bottom left and double clicking on 'all artists', but this is really not as good as Party Shuffle (I like to sit down and prune the upcoming list depending on my mood / company).
If anybody can help I'd be much obliged.
Cheers,
Doug
iMac, purple, CRT Mac OS X (10.3.9) 512MB RAM

It's been that way ever since Party Shuffle appeared in iTunes.
One way I used to do it when I had my music library on a desktop computer and I was using a PowerBook was to use remote desktop software like VNC to control the remote computer.
Or if you quit out of iTunes on the remote computer and use file sharing to mount the remote file system you could hold the Option key down on your local computer and then select the library on the shared volume. I haven't tried this but I think it may work. Changing libraries was something introduced in the latest version of iTunes, although I don't think this was what they had in mind when introduced it.

Party Shuffle with Shared Music

I saw this question posted a few times (all of which are archived and do not allow posting of replies). Does anyone have any good info as to why Party Shuffle can't pull from a shared music library? The only real "workaround" is to play the library and select the "Shuffle" button, but you obviously don't have control over what songs get played next.
I would really like to see this available. Is it in the works or should I just not expect it at all.

Doesn't look like anyone else cares... Oh well...

Question about upgrading iTunes multiple computers with shared library

Greetings,
I have a question about upgrading to the current version of iTunes.
Currently, my household uses 3 Mac computers (2 Powerbook 17in laptops and a Mack Mini). We are all (currently) on system 10.4.11 (with iTunes 9.2.1). Between the 3 computers we have a shared iTunes music and video library on a networked high capacity hard drive.
We recently purchased an iPad. In order to make it easy for updates and to use media from our iTunes shared library I decided that we should upgrade the systems on our home computers to Snow Leopard. I have ensured that all the computers have at lease 2 Gb of RAM and adequate hard drive space.
The only possible problem I see is that one of the Powerbook laptops uses the old Motorola processor. (This is one of the last Powerbooks to use that processor.) I don’t think this computer can be upgraded to Snow Leopard.
My question is, if I upgrade 2 of the computers (and iTunes in the process), will I still be able to access the shared iTunes library using the older computer with the older system and iTunes? Will the upgrade process change the iTunes library in such a way that the one older computer will no longer be able to properly access that library?
Are there any other problems I might encounter having a mixed system/iTunes environment?
Thank you,
Tim

iantoole wrote:
Just a thought. Should I somehow open iTunes on MBP2 using MBP1's Library file??
both Macs can access the same library file, however, only one at a time !
to do that, you would ideally have the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes music folder) on the external. then, on one Mac after the other, launch iTunes while holding the option key, click on +choose library+ when prompted, and select the iTunes folder on the external.
or, you could have two separate libraries and keep those in sync using third party tools such as Syncopation, TuneRanger or SuperSync.
for purchases from the iTunes store, you could set up _*Home Sharing*_ - it can be configured to automatically transfer new purchases to home shared libraries.
Can I create a script to have MBP1 always save the iTunes Library file on the shared hard drive?
no need.
JGG

Party Shuffle with "Display 0 Upcoming Songs" Bug?

I believe I have encountered a bug in iTunes 7, and would like to know if other poeple are having the same problem. If you select "Display 0 Upcoming Songs" in "Party Shuffle" mode, iTunes stops playing instead of choosing another song from the source playlist (after the current song finishes playing).
Previous versions of iTunes did not behave this way.
Can anyone confirm this, or is it a problem specific to my own Mac?
Thanks.

Why? Drag it to the top of the Party shuffle list.
That's why it's called a party shuffle. You can
add/delete/rearrange very easily.
iTunes 6:
you suddenly get an urge to hear a specific song next
switch to iTunes, which is always kept in the Library view
Find artist and song
Drag to Party Shuffle
No need to leave the Library view, the song you wanted plays next, and then random tunes play after that's done.
iTunes 7:
you suddenly get an urge to hear a specific song next
switch to iTunes, which is always kept in the Library view
Find artist and song
Drag to Party Shuffle
Now click on Party Shuffle
Drag the song up 5 places
Click back to the Library
3 extra steps requiring some accurate mousing. Or, ctrl-click the song, select Play Next in Party Shuffle, which is two extra steps. Like I said, not the end of the world, but very annoying.
And I believe it's a bug, since having it set to 5 songs or more, and the tunes will continue playing, but with 0 it stops. It's inconsistent.
If that was their intended behavior, then they should enable the "replay" icon in the bottom left to toggle how it behaves after reaching the end. As it is now, it's greyed out.
Of course, the perfect solution for me would be to have a shortcut key combo that automatically adds any selected tunes to the party shuffle, as if you had right-clicked and selected Play Next. I hate drag-dropping when I don't have to.
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Party Shuffle w/ Sharing

Sharing my music from my desktop to my laptop using Airtunes I find that I cannot choose a folder in Party Shuffle to access my shared music. Is this part of the copyright law problem? Is there a way around this? I would prefer Party Shuffle over the old fashioned Shuffle option. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Count me in on this one. I logged in to check this and one other issue, both of which it appears are not yet available. Just to reiterate, I would like to see iTunes support:
1) Party Shuffle capability for shared playlists
2) Allow user to rate songs in shared playlists (permissions could be controlled on the serving library)
It looks like I'm in the same situation as at least several other people are - I want to store and manage just one main library (in the basement, in my case), while creating "shell" iTunes libraries on other household computers (or possibly media servers in the future) that access the shared library in the basement. Party Shuffle is fantastic; it seems that it wouldn't be too hard to update iTunes to serve random songs per Smart Playlist rules to a requesting client. After all, it's already serving songs as it is. Likewise, I've loaded my entire CD collection, but have only rated maybe half of my music to date. I like my basement, but it sure would be nice if I could rate songs while I stream them over my family room stereo (I have a special smart playlist that only feeds me unrated songs - only 1566 songs to go...).
HP Laptop Windows XP Pro Multiple machines (tower, laptop) trying to share one library effectively...
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IPhoto 09 facebook integration design botch with shared library

Like, I suspect, a lot of people with a family Mac we have multiple accounts so we can have our own setup, but we pool all our photos together into a shared library (per Apple's recipe, using a separate volume without permissions) so we can all browse our common photos...after all, the pictures of us our more likely to come from other people's cameras, and vice versa.
This worked fine in the last version of iPhoto, but the implementation of facebook integration has a serious flaw. The facebook metadata is stored in the iPhoto library (though it seems not the passwords, thankfully), instead of a user's personal directory. This means when I look at the shared library, I see the facebook folders the OTHER users of the mac created, which are unwriteable to me, since of course we have separate facebook accounts.
This is a design flaw. The facebook folders should be personal info, not visible in the shared library, or (better yet) I should be able to have a shared library for iPhoto and separate personal libraries, then I could make my own choices.

iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
Regards
TD

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I am getting a Shared Library Error (The application "APP NAME HERE" could not be launched because of a shared library error: "1<APP NAME HERE><CarbonLib><CFMPriv_PrintCore>") whenever I try to open a non-Mac application (Adobe or Microsoft, basically). And when I try to print, I cannot adjust anything in the Page Setup, else the application crashes.
Problems began right after a Software Update: to 10.4.8 (and iTunes to 7.0.1).
Any thoughts? I have seen references here and elsewhere to various shared library error issues, with solutions that have worked for some people sometimes, ranging from dowloading the newest version of Quicktime to archiving everything and reinstalling the system software.

I saw you had posted in the other topic and were
advised to start a new one. But did you try any of
the other approaches?
Yes. I've been trying simpler things first, such as removing certain caches from my Library.
It helps to be
more specific about the particular applications.
Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and In Design 2.0.2. Microsoft Word 11.0 and Excel 11.0 are the ones that give me the shared library error. At the same time (since the upgrade to OS 10.4.8 and iTunes 7.0.1), I have been having trouble with my printer, a Canon i850 (printer software quits with each printing, although the printer does print the item; and trying to adjust Page Setup causes whatever application I'm in to crash).
Did you look at Yo
u receive a "Shared library" error message when you
start Office for Mac programs for example?
Not until you suggested it. Thanks. It has some of the same suggestions, though — no new ones. I've been trying to avoid the archive/install option, but I guess I'm headed that way.
You say you have iTunes 7.0.1, what version of
Quicktime do you have?
QuickTime Player 7.1.3.
Unfortunately there doesn't (as yet) seem to be a
single fix for all these errors. We'll just have to
keep trying!
That's the sense I'm getting.
Thank you for your attemps to help.

I want party shuffle with my ipod!!

Hi guys, sorry, I was looking for the right place to comment this but just find this place. So I hope you coul tell me where could I (and many more customers) make a request to add party shuffle on iTunes for the ipod.
I was reading around it is diffucult for I don't really care what reason but I am positive it is posible to add such a feature.
So, making right use of this place: why is that no iPod can be used with the party shuffle? can be added on future iTunes revsions? where can I suggest that option with real chances to be heared?
and, what do you think about this?

Hello and Welcome to Apple Discussions.
The best place to make suggestions about Apple products is here (link).
There is a Party Shuffle mode in iTunes 7 and a Shuffle mode on the iPod so I'm not sure what you'd actually be asking for.
mrtotes

Cover Flow view with shared library?

I use iTunes for Windows on my laptop and share my library from my iMac...is there a way to utilize cover flow view with a shared libary?

Since just moving all my music to a NAS I was here researching the same issue. I can see the other three (only when music is specifically selected) but not Cover Flow. I believe it has been disabled. I played around with grid view with 428 albums and iTunes for Windows loads the art fresh evertime you start it and, on the smallest art size in grid view, it took a bit of time to load all the art.
If Cover Flow needs to cache up all the art work in advance then I could see how it would easily take my setup between 45 seconds to a minute to cache them all up.
Perhaps that would feel too clunky for Apple especially if one were to aggressively swipe through a set that wasn't completely cached.

Update number of reading with shared library

Hey,
I use to listen my music present on my MacBook with my iPad using home-sharing.
But when I play a song on my iPad that did not increase the number of reading on my Macbook. I have turn on the option in itunes preferences to allow this but without any effect.
Does someone have an idea to solve this problem?
Thanks everyone,

Well, I have to re-open this subject...
Indeed, since I have updated to Itunes 11.1.1 and iOS 7.0.2 my problems are back! When I am playing songs shared from my Mac itunes lbrary on my iPad, the number of reading is not changed on my Mac...
Anyone knows if Apple will fix this issue soon?
Thanks,

Error with shared library

People, I have uninstalled scribus 1.16 and downloaded and installed the scribus 1.17.pkg.tar.gz
But trying to execute it, the following message appears:
error while loading shared libraries libssl.so.0.9.7 Cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory
What should I do?
Thanks a lot for who can answer me
Rafael

rafael wrote:
People, I have uninstalled scribus 1.16 and downloaded and installed the scribus 1.17.pkg.tar.gz
But trying to execute it, the following message appears:
error while loading shared libraries libssl.so.0.9.7 Cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory
What should I do?
Thanks a lot for who can answer me
Rafael
the new scribus needs openssl 0.9.7 (also in the repos) --- but warning: if your system is not up-to-date and you update to 0.9.7, you will break a lot of pkgs
-> run pacman -Suy to have a updated system first (i assume you have arch 0.6 installed and never updated) --- but this solution has a second warning: it will probably want to download more hundreds of MB of updated software

Party Shuffle - How to exclude songs

Hi,
I have 3 playlists and the library. One playlist contains meditation songs that I do not want to include when using the Party Shuffle at the Library Level. I also want to achieve the same on my iPod Nano.
I know I can deselect the songs but it is kind of a pain to do so every time I want the shuffle to play. On the other had, I can not do the same on the iPod.
Any ideas will be highly appreciated.

One playlist contains meditation songs that I do not want to include when using the Party Shuffle at the Library Level.
Stop using the party shuffle at the library level. Instead, create a new Smart Playlist with the rule "Playlist is not Mediation_songs", and then party shuffle that instead. You can use the same playlist on the iPod, if you like.

Sharing library between computer over a network

Hi,
I'm trying to share 2 different ip libraries on 2 different computers. But one has ip4 and the other one has ip6. Do both iPhoto have to be of the same level (ip4 vs ip6) to be able to share?
Reason is that I see the icon of the other library on each iphoto, but on the ip6 on my laptop, (trying to access my G5 with ip4,) i see the icon of the G5 ip4 and as soon as I click on it, it disapear and I get a message that there was an error with sharing library.
On the other way around, when I try to access the ip6 laptop from the ip4 G5, I click on it and the icon remains in the album sections, and it get de-selected automatically, and it reverts to the root ip library being selected. The Macbook/laptop icon remains in the album column, but cannot remain selected. I get NO sharing error on this one.
Apple website and help menu claim that to share you only need 10.2.6 and iP4 and above!
Please advise!
michel

Hi Brie,
I'm not sure exactly what are the 6 steps exactly.... but I did all the check box in ip preferences of both computer.
I found this in the iP help menu
To share your photos on a network:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Share my photos" checkbox, and then choose your entire library or only the albums, slideshows, or books you want to share.
4-Type a name for your shared items in the "Shared name" field, and a password if desired.
The shared name you enter appears in the iPhoto Source list on computers set up to look for shared photos on your network. If you select "Require password," users will need to enter that password before they can see your shared photos.
DONE ( did not use password)
To look for shared photos:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Look for shared photos" checkbox.
DONE
Not sure what other step there are to do if any!
michel
Message was edited by: Michel Vézina
Message was edited by: Michel Vézina
Message was edited by: Michel Vézina

Shared Library issues after update yesterday

Yesterday, some systems updates came through and I went ahead and said yes. I didn't really look at what they were. Since then I have been trying to use Panrama, Thinking Home software and Graphic Converter. Every time I try to access these programs, I keep coming up with shared library errors. Mainly it says that they are carbon library errors. I used Time Capsule to go back a week, because I had used both of these programs last week. It didn't change anything. Thinking Home is the current version and Panorama is the previous edition.
Any ideas of how to fix this?

First, what OS are you using? "Carbon Library" makes me think of OS 9
Second, launch Software Update and the go to its Preferences and click on the "Installed Updates" tab to see what updates you installed.
Third, make sure that you have the latest versions of those programs that run with your OS. Your "current" version may not work with the latest OS update. Sometimes it is something in a Security Update that cause problems.

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