Sharing Music Across Users

So I bought a new macbook and I'm copying all of my music from my desktop to the macbook over our wireless network. iTunes automatically sets each individual user's iTunes library under his or her own username, instead of on the shared folder. What is the easiest way to place all of my iTunes Music files in one place, and make it accessible to every user?

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    I know how to share music across different computers, but I can only play the music. Is there a way to be able to save the music on that computer?
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    Computer 1 has songs A,B, and C
    Computer 2 has song D
    Is there a way to transfer song D onto Computer 1?

    iTunes: How to copy music between authorized computers
    Though it refers to iTunes Store purchased music, it applies to all your tracks. And if you happen to also own an iPod:
    How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer
    Forum Tip: Since you're new here, you've probably not discovered the Search feature available on every Discussions page, but next time, it might save you time (and everyone else from having to answer the same question multiple times) if you search a couple of ways for a topic, both in the relevant forums, in the User Tips Library and in the Apple Knowledge Base before you post a question.
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  • Why can't I share my music across user accounts on my home  PC?

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    I'm having a frustrating time trying to get Itunes to share music files with my wife's user account on my computer. We both use Itunes, but we have our music stored individually in our 'My documents' folders, leading to duplicate songs on the hard drive.
    I have tried various methods to allow my wife to use my music files. First I set my music to 'shared' and her's to 'look for shared music' with no success. Then I tried moving all the music to the shared documents folder. Now I can use her music but she can't use mine. My filenames are in green and her's are in black. I know that has something to do with encrypted files but surely in the shared folder she should be able to access them. I moved these files from My documents, which is not accessable to her. Is that why?

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  • Sharing music across different accounts on the same PC

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    I've got an iPod Classic with 12G of music, all from CD's. It is on iTunes on my account on my PC. I had a 8G iTouch for Xmas. I have opened another account on my PC and downloded iTunes. How can I transfer selected music from my original account to my new one?

    I also don't understand why you'd open another itunes store account. Now you are going to forever have to keep track of 2 login credentials, and deal with hassles that multiple accounts sometimes present.
    You can share music between 2 windows user accounts using these directions. Just be forewarned, if you move things to a shared folder in Windows Explorer, your original itunes will lose the paths to the music. Move it to the shared folder using itunes consolidate command.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203

  • Sharing Music Between Users Accounts on a Single Computer

    I know that you can listen to music belonging to another user account on the same computer (as long as that user remains logged in), however, is there a way to COPY (drag and drop) music from one user account to another user account (on the same computer) similar to how it is done between multiple computers with Home Sharing?

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  • Multiple Windows Accounts, Shared Music, Different User Settings...

    So here is the background. I have a single computer that that we run iTunes on and purchase all of our content on using a single iTunes account. We keep all of this managed in a single iTunes library. My kids, wife and I all have iPods or iPhones that are synchronized with this library all using the same account on the PC called "iTunes".
    Each person in my house has their own account on this Windows Vista PC for a variety of reasons (security being one). I would like for each person to be able to log into their own account, fire up iTunes and get all the same music from the shared folder of music, but allow them to manage independant playlists and song ratings.
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    I was hopeful when v.9 came out that the "Home Share" feature might help out, but it does not. You cannot run iTunes on two accounts at the same time on the same PC (a problem most other software overcame back when Windows 98 came out) and iTunes has to be running on both in order to perform the share/sync. This also could have been solved if the Home Share features were run as a service instead of natively inside iTunes.
    As best as I can tell after researching the Internet on my issue, I still don't think iTunes can do these simple things that other software figured out a long time ago. So I may be asking more for new features in iTunes v.10 than asking for an answer to my problem. But if someone else has figured this out, please let me know. I will be pleasantly surprised!

    Thanks for pointing me to the iTunes Folder Watch program. It looks like this will solve my immediate needs. It's a little clunky in spots, but does handle adding new files very well. And it only cost about $10 to get the fully functioning version with the automatic monitoring in the background.
    I copied the iTunes library files to each account, setup a watch folder that points to the location of the iTunes library content and all the music syncs up perfectly without duplicates. I have yet to test the applications, but music, movies, TV Shows, audiobooks, and podcasts all work fine.
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  • Sharing music between users on one MacBook

    Is it possible for two different users (who share one MacBook) to share the one iTunes library of music?
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  • Sharing music across accounts on one machine without moving files to Shared

    I have read other posts about sharing iTunes among different accounts on one Mac, but so far I haven't solved my particular problem. Up until a couple of weeks ago - without reading any background material - I was just treating the two accounts as two different machines. I would open iTunes on one "source" account (which had music sharing enabled), switch to the second account, and be able to see the source account's music as a playlist, just as if it were being shared from a remote machine. I didn't have to worry at all about physically moving the files anywhere. As long as iTunes was open at the source account, I could play the source's music.
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    Sorry,I don't have any idea about the interference.
    Your Shared folder might have the wrong owner. It should be 'system'.
    Here's a picture of the 'Get Info' of my Shared folder:
    You probably want to use the shared folder as described in the second method (not using Fast User Switching) in this article:
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    M
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  • Sharing Music between User Accounts

    Hello,
    I've been trying to share a single itunes music folder between two accounts on the same computer. I've read dozens of threads on this topic in these forums, and still can't seem to get this to work.
    Right now, I'm going back to basics and simply trying to put the iTunes music folder in a Public folder, which can be accessible by both user accounts. I've followed the instructions documented in the following article:
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    ML
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    Hi,
    Thanks for the reply.
    I did a copy paste of the iTunes Music folder into a new iTunes Music folder under Users/Shared. When I switch over to the other user account, I get the same results. Some folders are accessible and some folders I have no access. It's strange as about 25% of the music folders are No Access, and the others are readable.
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    ML

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    I'd like to make one iTunes library that serves multiple users on that computer (all the users are me anyway). Is that even possible?

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    TD

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  • Sharing music between users on same computer

    My wife and I share the same laptop yet have different itunes accounts.  I turned on the home share and can see my daughters music on her computer but my wife cannot see my music when she is signed onto her account.  I can go to my account and copy music into her library but there must be another way that we can see each others libraries.  I tried consolidating my library and that didn't work either.
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    isn't there another way to share iTunes libraries between users on the same Mac, i.e. so that they other user can listen to other user's songs but cannot add, delete or change anything?
    To be specific I have my iTunes songs stored in the Music folder under my account (the standard way), but would like my kids being able to access my songs without being able to modify or delete any files. If I would copy my songs to the Public Folder, they would be able to modify or accidentally delete my songs - which I would like to avoid.
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  • Can't "see" shared music across network

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