Share M4P music on same computer with different windows Sessions

According to the guidelines provided on this site, I already shared my music folder to enable different users on my single computer to access shared music files.
I kept different libraries to provide each user a different library to keep perosnal playlists, ratings and so on.
m4p shared files can be read by each user by clicking on the file in windows folder so I understand protection is shared on the same computer.
But there is no way to add a shared m4p file (itune protected)to the libraries !!
I used the "add file" or "add folder" function... only mp3, mpg, appear in the library, but no m4p.
How can a user manage a different library on the same computer and be able to add shared m4p files to each library ?

Jase, you said "Music sharing works across different user accounts, whether they are on the same computer or different computers", but my son will log into his account where he currently has no music. in the window on the left, we can see the other computers in the house that are on line, but there is no sign of the master account (on that same imac). i assume this is because the master account is not logged in, therefore the secondary accounts can't find the master account's music, nor can I from a remote computer ( my macbook, for example). for instance, right now from my macbook i can see my son's itunes list (on the imac) in my "share window" (even though his list is empty). he can also see my macbooks list in his "share window". he cannot see either my list on that imac, or his sisters list on that same imac. all acounts on the imac have sharing turned on, as well as "look for shared music" turned on.
i guess the focus is on this: can the master user itunes list be made available to other users on that same computer while they are logged in as other users (and the master account is logged off, which it has to be in order for the secondary accounts to be logged in, right?) I can't think of any other way to ask this, so i hope that clarified what we have tried and what we are asking for.

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