Sharing music from iTunes on an Xserve to new MacPro Desktop + MacBook Air

Hello all,
Have a question here regarding sharing a central iTunes playlist/XServe and also enabling the functionality to add music to that XServe library remotely
Current Setup:
-- Mac XServe running iTunes 24x7, sharing one playlist containing entire music library
-- MacPro Desktop and MacBook Air connected to shared playlist and streaming music successfully from XServe shared playlist
Short of running to another part of the house and sticking a CD into the XServe, please let me know if anyone out there is aware of a way to copy music to the iTunes music share/folder on the Xserve and have iTunes automatically scan that folder and add to the library/playlist, or some other option to add music to the central library for administration (Perhaps apple remote desktop to the XServer and then...)
Any thoughts appreciated, I will respond with more info ASAP if requested.
Best,
Elliott

Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
With iTunes 11 you might also have a Home Videos folder inside iTunes Media.
In the simplest cases you copy the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> on the source computer to <User's Music> on the target machine, install iTunes, and it "just works"TM.
If the media folder (inside the red outline) has been split out to a separate location then you can copy the library folder (outside the red outline) as before and connect the drive holding the media so that it has exactly the same path as before. If the drive appears as D: on one system and E: on the other then the library won't be able to find the media.
The crucial file is iTunes Library.itl - this contains a record of the tracks that have been added to the library, ratings, play counts, playlists etc.
See also: Make a split library portable.
tt2

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