Problem with 2 Mac Book sharing same iTune Music library on Aiport Disk

Dear all.
I try to share iTunes between 2 Macbooks at home. Could appear easy, but not !
Of course, these 2 macbook are not always at home.
So I put the "home iTune library" on an airport disk connected to our AEBS.
In both Macbook, I recorded in iTunes settings that iTune Music folder is on the airport disk.
At this step: no problem; it works !
But if one of the macbook changes something on the library (buy a song on ITMS for example), the song comes on the airport disk but the other macbook can't know that there is a new file in the iTunes Music folder !!!
Could you help, please ?

Hi
This problem is inherent to using a common iTunes library on an AirPort disk. There is a simple but somewhat clunky solution. The xml file is actually (or should be) stored in the iTunes folder on your AirPort disk (the xml files in the iTunes folder on each MacBook are no longer used once accessing the AirPort library). Each time you quit iTunes on each machine, the xml file is saved and updated. So if you add tunes or alter playlists on one machine, to get the other to see the changes you must quit iTunes to update the xml file, and reopen iTunes on the second machine. I've seen some other posts about corrupting the xml file sharing this way, but I have not experienced this.
I'm still working through some other little bugs with sharing iTunes and iPhoto libraries this way, and it turns out that Apple does not formally support this use of AirPort disk utility. I was told this while working with a tier 2 tech support for about an hour yesterday trying to solve an iTunes playback problem from the AirPort Disk with my network in WDS mode.
I'll be interested to find out if there are scripts or other fixes for this and will check out the suggested link.
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