Shared music won't appear on Windows 8.1 iTunes

My Gateway Windows laptop can share music with a Mac, but it cannot receive shared music that is shared from the same computer.
This situation involves three computers: My laptop, my family's desktop, and my father's laptop. My laptop has Windows 8.1, while the latter two have Mac OS X. All three have the latest version of iTunes. I have my laptop and my family's desktop set up share music via Music Sharing (not home sharing). My laptop can share with the desktop computer just fine. The desktop can share with my father's laptop without any problems, meaning that there is nothing wrong with the desktop. However, the shared music from the desktop does not appear on the shared music section of the laptop, no matter how close in proximity the laptop is to the desktop. Therefore, there is something wrong with my laptop's ability to receive shared music.
I should also mention that I have a firewall that is managed by Norton Internet Security. The firewall allows the iTunes.exe file through. Any ideas? Is it simply the fact that windows can share music to a mac, but not the other way around? Or is it a Windows 8.1 problem?

Never mind, problem solved.

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