Sharing iTunes btwn two users -- getting new music to show up for both

I'm setting up a new PC with Windows 7 and, at the same time, setting up two new iPhones. In trying to keep my wife's iPhone linked to her Apple ID and my iPhone to mine, I followed the directions here -- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203 -- and set up iTunes on each of our Windows user accounts and put the iTunes Media Library files in a public location we can both access.
My problem now is, when one of us adds new music to iTunes (to the shared, public folder in Windows), it doesn't automatically show up in the other's iTunes library. I know that I can manually go in and use "Add File/Folder to Library...", but, is there a way to have this happen without user intervention?
Many thanks for any help you can provide!
Bobby

Don't do it.. !!
Apple says specifically don't put your iphoto library on the TC.
And I quote.
iphoto network no no.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1198
It's recommended that you store your iPhoto library on a locally mounted hard drive. Storing your iPhoto library on a network share can lead to poor performance, data corruption, or data loss.
See further
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6692100
The TC has no media smarts at all.. none.. it is completely dumb stupid hard disk in a router.
If you put libraries on the TC apart from being slow.. because all files must be transferred via the Mac running itunes you then have no backup and no way to backup your files.
Get a large external drive or get a proper NAS with built in iTunes server. (although exactly how well they work I am not sure).
You still should not put your main iphoto library on the NAS but you can put a copy.

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