Sharing music files between users while maintaining ratings

I have two users on my MacBook Pro which I use every day. One is my normal "home" user I use when at home. The other is my "work" user which I use at work (I'm a software developer, so I have a separate environment for that).
All of my new music gets downloaded/copied to my "home" user.
To get the music into iTunes on my "work" user, I've taken a couple steps:
1) I made an alias of my "Music" folder under the iTunes library in my "home" user and moved it to a more publically accessable location "/".
2) In my "work" user, I've opened the preferences, gone to the "Advanced" tab, unchecked "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding a library," and changed my iTunes Media folder location to the /Music alias.
This works great. However, I've taken the time to rate all of the songs under my "home" user, and I'd really like those ratings to show up for my "work" user.
There is 1 solution which is to copy the "iTunes Library.itl" and "iTunes Library.xml" files from my "home" user to my "work" user. However, this is cumbersome.
Is there some way I can make the ratings just show up/sync? Ideally, adding music under "home" would also automatically show up under "work," too.
Thanks.

andylow wrote:
Thanks for your response.
I do understand that what I want to do is not possible with iTunes if I can't get both users to use the same library file.
Both users can access the same iTunes library file.
However, it can only be accessed by one user at a time. (you can't have iTunes open on your home machine and work machine at the same time).
Hold Option and launch iTunes.
Select Choose library... and select the iTunes folde in the you moved to a more publicly accessible location.
That's all you need to do.
Make sure you quit iTunes when you want to access the library while on the other computer.

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