Sharing music between accounts

I have two separate itunes accounts, each on separate computers, two separate itunes id's. My iphone is synced with one account. Can I transfer music from the other account to my iphone?

"Can I transfer music from the other account to my iphone?"
No.
AS provided, iphone can sync to one computer/library at a time.

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  • Confused about sharing music between two ipods

    I have a 30GB ipod video, and I bought my husband an 8GB nano for Christmas. I have been searching the threads trying to figure out how we can share music, but I seem to get conflicting information. I understand how to create separate libraries and I think I understand how to allow him access to my library (move itunes music folder into public folder?) but am still unclear about sharing music between ipods. Because in some of the posts, I have read that while you can share music and listen to it via multiple itunes libraries, you can ONLY listen to it on the computer--you cannot get it onto another ipod due to anti-piracy measures.
    I know I could create a playlist for him in my library, but I like to autosync my ipod and I don't really want his music on mine, because the songs we BOTH like I've already imported into my itunes library. I was hoping to set up a separate library for him, import my music files into it, then let him delete the artists he's not interested in and add the music he wants that I don't. But I don't want to go through all that if he won't be able to play the shared songs on his own ipod.
    I hope all this makes sense. Can someone who shares songs in this way give me some advice? Again, I would like for us to maintain separate libraries but I would like to make mine available to him so he doesn't have to reimport all the CDs I've already imported (and I don't want to waste computer space by having multiple copies of the same songs).
    Any help would be appreciated!

    I know I could create a playlist for him in my library, but I like to autosync my ipod and I don't really want his music on mine, because the songs we BOTH like I've already imported into my itunes library.
    Ver easy to accomplish.
    I have one library, two 4GB iPods and ~20GB of music.
    Rather than duplicating libraries or creating separate user accounts/sharing music you can't load, etc. which simply takes up space on the disk drive, use the same library and use sync only what you want.
    Create playlist(s) of your own music from the library.
    Add/remove from those playlists as you want.
    Connect your iPod, select it in iTunes and select the Music tab.
    Select Sync music, Sync selected playlists and choose what you want.
    The way I do it is I create a main playlist (Chris's Music) of music in the library that I like.
    I also create a smart playlist (Not Chris's Music) and set it to Match Rule - Playlist is not Chris's Music.
    This helps to manage my music by showing all music not in main playlist so I can browse for music I may have missed or now want to add.
    I do the same for my daughters iPod except she gets to pick her own stuff.
    This way whenever any music is added by either of us, it is available to the other with no problems.

  • Share music between accounts

    How can I share music between accounts?

    Accounts are just user names and passwords with which to purchase content.
    Please explain.
    What exactly do you want to do?

  • 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?

    iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203 - relocating iTunes' media folder to a shared area but leaving separate library files - extra tip at https://discussions.apple.com/message/17331189

  • Sharing music between different accounts - is this how it works?

    The way iTunes shares music between different users seems a bit poor.
    I have two user accounts set up on the same PC, with music files accessed by each from the same folder (as described here: How To Share Music Between Different Accounts On A Single Computer).
    My main issues are:
    1) I have to manually add new music added by the other user instead of it just appearing in iTunes.
    2) iTunes doesn't recognise if a music file is already in the joint library, so we end up with two copies of things (particularly tiresome for podcasts).
    Am I doing something wrong - maybe there is an easy way around this?
    ... or do the people at Apple need to do a bit of work here?
    Pentium 4   Windows XP  

    By default, any new file or folder created is set to be read+write for the creator, and read-only for everyone else. The file creator can grant write access to other users by changing the permissions on a folder and its contents, as Neil suggests. But you'll have to repeat that process every time a new file is added.
    Fortunately, there is a way to automatically grant read+write access to all files created or copied to the folder. First go to System Preferences -> Accounts. Click the + button under the users list. Then, make a new group; calling it "sharegroup" or something similar. Add the users you want to the group.
    Then put all the files you want to share into a commonly-accessible folder, such as a subfolder in /Users/Shared.
    Then log in to an admin account and open Terminal. Paste in the following two lines:
    sudo chmod -R +a "sharegroup allow delete,chown,list,search,add_file,\
    addsubdirectory,delete_child,file_inherit,directoryinherit" \
    Press return, then drag the folder into the Terminal window, and press return again. Enter admin password when prompted and press return. That should do it. Everything there now should be fully writable by all users in sharegroup. New files that are *created in* or *copied to* the folder will be the same way.
    Files that you *move in* from a different location on the same hard drive won't be, though. So make sure you copy previously existing files into the sharefolder instead of moving them (hold down option key while dragging to copy) so that they get the custom permissions applied.

  • Sharing Itunes music between accounts on same computer

    Hi
    Is it possible to share Itunes music library between three accounts on same computer so if my wife logs into her account she can see my music library

    This should help:
    iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
    Note that when it says "publicly accessible location", it needs to be a place where everyone has read and write access. The most common such place is the Shared folder in the Users folder, but you can place the music elsewhere if you change the access permissions manually (don't start tinkering with permissions unless you're confident you know what you're doing and can reverse things if they get messed up).
    Regards.

  • Sharing music between different accounts on a single computer

    I have read the instructions here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203 , but I'm still having a problem.
    Scenario: Two Ipods, one PC (WinXP), one big music library, originally created and stored directly in C:\My Music, which is accessible to all users of the PC. From my non-admin account, I add folders and files to my itunes library, modify songs and artwork, no problem. Now my son has an iPod, and I would like to be able to share out portions of the C:\My Music library with him. It kind of works. He adds files and folders to his library, on his account, in his itunes. The music is there, but it is somehow protected. No artwork, in fact I get the "artwork is not modifiable" message. Nor can he modify any info in the songs. In a few cases, the artwork comes with the songs, but mostly not. In either case, no info in the songs are modifiable. Neither of our Windows XP user accounts are admin, but why does my account seem to "own" the songs? He's not going to be happy without any artwork in his library or on his ipod.
    Any ideas? Thanks!

    iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203 - relocating iTunes' media folder to a shared area but leaving separate library files - extra tip at https://discussions.apple.com/message/17331189

  • Sharing iTunes Music between accounts in Front Row

    I have two accounts set on my computer. The primary account shares it's iTunes library with the secondary one. The shared music works fine inside of iTunes but when when I attempt to find the shared music on the secondary account via Front Row it states that it cannot find Shared Music. Does Front Row not have access to the shared music on other accounts on the same computer?
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    I have the same problem. I think Cory made an assumption in his reply, that there is music in the library of the secondary accounts iTunes. My Secondary Account has no music at all in the iTunes library. In iTunes for the Secondary Account there are two sources of shared music available in the shared music folder, both play fine from iTunes. The first source is shared music from my primary accounts iTunes library, the second source is from the library of an XP based machine on my network.
    When accessing shared music from Front Row logged in on the secondary account, the music shared from the XP machine is available as listed and named in iTunes, the music shared from the primary accounts iTunes library is not available.
    Purchased the Mac Mini Dual Core yesterday, did all updates to software yesterday. Any ideas, anyone?
    Mac Mini Dual Core   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

  • Sharing music between 2 accounts on one computer

    I have 2 accounts on my Windows XP Pro machine, both of which can see and utilise iTunes (though unfortunately, not at the same time - though this is another problem entirely). Both of these users iTunes accounts have been set so that they utilise the same 'shared' music folder. To do this, I have switched both users iTunes Music Folder Location to be:-
    C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\iTunes Music
    I do not seem to be able to add music that already exist as mp3's to this folder using one account and then have them visible on the other users iTunes account. To do this I have to import the mp3's again for this User.
    However, importing music from Audio cd's do not seem to suffer the same problem.
    This surely can't be right. Has anyone got a workaround for this?
    Additional info - I do not use the facility to copy imported tracks into the iTunes Music Folder - purely for space saving reasons, and do not want to use this functionality.
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      Windows XP Pro  

    If you copied these files to her iTunes directory, you certainly should have seen music in her library when opening iTunes. I suspect that even if you copied these files, when you launched iTunes it was using a different copy of these. Where did you put them? By default, they would be in her ..\My Music\iTunes folder. You can put them anywhere you want, but you have to tell iTunes which one to open. Try this:
    1- Re-copy your files to a known folder that is accessible from her account.
    2- Log into her account, press and hold the Shift key while you start iTunes.
    3- At the "Choose Library or Create Library" prompt, select "Choose Library".
    4- Navigate to where you put the "iTunes Library.itl" file from step #1.
    This forces her iTunes to use the specific iTunes Library.itl file and should now display the same library that you see in your own iTunes.

  • Sharing music between diff accounts on 1 computer - what am i doing wrong?

    Hi,
    Can someone please help me out? I've just bought an iPod shuffle for my daughter and already have iTunes set up for myself using my own iPod (using Windows XP). Now I want to make all the music I've previously set up in iTunes available to her account.
    So I followed the instructions in "How to share music between different accounts on a single computer" (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195) but when I log on to the other account and start up iTunes, I can't see the music I've copied over. Any ideas why?
    I basically copied the "iTunes Music" folder to "C:Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music\iTunes\ then opened iTunes on the other account and changed the location via the Edit menu, Preferences, Advanced, Change button. When I do this I can see the underlying folders of music, it just doesn't show up in the iTunes Music Library within iTunes. I've also tried copying the iTunes library files in desperation, but that made no difference.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    Thanks,
    Adam.

    If you copied these files to her iTunes directory, you certainly should have seen music in her library when opening iTunes. I suspect that even if you copied these files, when you launched iTunes it was using a different copy of these. Where did you put them? By default, they would be in her ..\My Music\iTunes folder. You can put them anywhere you want, but you have to tell iTunes which one to open. Try this:
    1- Re-copy your files to a known folder that is accessible from her account.
    2- Log into her account, press and hold the Shift key while you start iTunes.
    3- At the "Choose Library or Create Library" prompt, select "Choose Library".
    4- Navigate to where you put the "iTunes Library.itl" file from step #1.
    This forces her iTunes to use the specific iTunes Library.itl file and should now display the same library that you see in your own iTunes.

  • Sharing Music between two Itunes accounts

    I bought my father a nano for Xmas and want to load music from my I tunes account on his nano. But he has his own Itunes account. How can he keep the music I loaded and sync his own Itunes with his nano without deleteing songs? We both have PC with XP.

    This article describes two methods:
    iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
    If you want only one library, use the second method.
    There are some disadvantages:
    If one of the users deletes a song, the other can't play it no more.
    If one user adds a song, the other has to add it to his/her library too.
    Hope this helps.
    M
    17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Several ext. HD (backup and data)

  • 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.
    I've begun having a problem, though, recently, with the source account "cutting out," as if there were some kind of interference over a network. Which seems strange, given everything's all on the same machine.
    I began reading the forums for answers, and did see the idea of moving the iTunes Music folder to users/Shared. The problem is that when I try to choose the the folder at the second account, the folder is blocked from access. I don't understand why this is so for the Shared folder.
    If anyone has any ideas about A) the interference, and B) the blocked iTunes Music folder in users/Shared, I'll be very grateful.
    Rob

    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:
    iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
    Hope this helps.
    M
    17' iMac fp 800 MHz 768 MB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   Several ext. HD (backup and data)

  • Sharing folders between accounts

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  • Sharing music between ipod, iphone, and samsung touch screen cp

    i have an ipod and an iphone.  how do i share music between the two with a samsung touch screen cp
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  • Sharing music between users

    Hi.
    My wife and I just bought a new macbook pro and we want it to be our media hub. We've set it up so we both have seperate logins as her stuff is hers and mine is mine. Can we share some of the same music in iTunes? Not the "purchased" stuff, but the songs we've ripped in from our personal collection. She would still like her own iTunes library to sync on her phone and I do too. But can we just load all of the music in and then share from the same library? I just don't want to have to have the input the same songs twice. I actually have the same question regaring photos in iPhoto. Any help?
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    Don't know about photos but for music look here and see if it does what you are after: "How to share music between different accounts on a single computer" http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195

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