Sharing music libary with a PC

What is the quickest way to share music library with a PC. It is an authorized computer but I cant figure out how to get the music on to the other computer.

Yes you can. Go to System prefs>sharing>internet
Click on share your connection from and change it to airport if it is not already.
Check off the type of connection you are going to use (firewire/ethernet) and then click start.
Plug in your pc to the ethernet port with your crossover cable
Make sure your firewalls are off. (pc and mac)
You should be able to share. As far as the settings for the pc are concerned I have no idea. Yoou Should just be able to make a new connection using DCHP
Good Luck

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I've tried following the instructions to share a single music library between 2 users accounts on the same comupter. While I've moved the music library to the Shared Document folder, only one user can see the library.
Is there something else I can try/check?
Thanks!

Hi, jstock.
It sounds like you're following the instructions in this article in the Apple Knowledge Base.
Make sure you follow the steps in the last section To listen to another account's music files which brings the files from the Shared Music folder into the other account's iTunes Library.

Can i home share a music libary from one device to another?

im trying to combine my music libary with my brothers is there a way to do this through home sharing or itunes match

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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I am sharing music and movies on the same pc but managing it with different accounts. Recently, when I add new content in the public folde, it only shows up in the one account that I adde it to and not the other accounts.

If you want all users to be able to access the same music, but with different libraries, NikkiG's advice is spot on. However, I thought I'd throw in my 2¢ since I just set this up for a friend.
If you want all your users to have exactly the same library, and not just access to a shared library, do the following:
-move the entire "iTunes" folder (~/Music/iTunes) into the Shared folder or to separate drive.
-in each user's account, remove the iTunes folders (or just move them to a new location until you're positive this method works for you)
-pop open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and here's where it gets a little dicey; type the following into the command line:
ln -s /Users/Shared/iTunes/ ~/Music/iTunes/
What this does is create a symbolic link (think alias, but more technical and powerful) between the iTunes folder in the Shared folder, and each user's iTunes folder. This way, each user is directly accessing the iTunes library, and not just through the shared area in iTunes itself. This allows them to add/remove music and playlists to the same library.
HOWEVER, this method will mess up if you have multiple users logged in and using iTunes at the same time.

Sharing music with other accounts - doesn't work?

Hi all,
I followed the directions on the Apple website to share my music library with other accounts on my iMac:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
I moved the library content (not my library files) from my private iTunes directory to a Public folder on my iMac.
I then gave the other account read/write permission on Public and everything below it (I checked - it's there).
While my iTunes still shows the complete library (playable), the other account's iTunes shows NOTHING.
Do I have to import the library also? I thought setting the location in the advanced settings in iTunes would be enough?
Thank you!

This will not solve why you are having your problem, but, have you tried setting up the encrypted network on the Windows PC and then tried to join it from the imac? I am not sure, but you may also need to have sharing active to allow other compters onto your network. Also, as an afterthought, for further protection, we don't have our router broadcasting the network name. So in order to join, one must know both the name of the network and the encrypted password to get in. The last thing I can think of is that on my network setup (mac os X 10.3.9) there are more than one WEP encryption setting. You may need to use the one that is compatible with the Windows PC.
I am just shooting in the wind here, so take my words with a grain of salt.
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ibook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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I have an external network hard drive with a shared music folder (WD MyBookLive), which I can access from Home Sharing and play music on my Windows computers. On my new Mac, I can see the drive and the music in Home Sharing but the tracks will not play. All the other authorized computers in my home network show up in Home Sharing and I can play the content. What's the solution?

Troubleshooting Home Sharing - http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

Sharing music with Itunes and windows XP

Hi Everyone,
I am new to this group, but couldn't find anywhere else to ask for help!! I have searched this database, but could not find an answer that worked for my problem!
I am PC based and have several computers all running windows 2000. They all have itunes running and are very happy to share the music. I just purchased a new HP machine running windows XP and cannot get Itunes on this machine to share its music, or see any of the other machines shared music. I have read various messages about setting port 5353 and have tried this but with no success, I completely disabled my firewall but still not success? Does anyone know why XP will not see the other computers shared music or share its music? I have tried sharing the directory (with the Itunes music)on the new machine but still no success! I can go into itunes on one of my other machines and "add folder" so that the other machine see's the directory on my new machine with all the music, but I would like to share the music via Itunes? Maybe I am being naive! but it works for 2000 why not XP?
Any help would be very welcome.
Thanks Gary

Thanks Rachyl,
The link was how to share files, I can do that, my problem is that the itunes programs on my XP machine will not speak to or listen to the itunes programs running on any other machine (mac or windows 2000). I would like to know how to get the XP machine to communicate with the other computers and then share its music.
Many thanks Gary

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I too am attempting to coble together a "whole house" music library.
Here is what I have had moderate success with.
I use an Airport Extreme Router and have a USB hard drive plugged directly into it. The Airport Extreme allows that drive to be used as a "Network" drive that can be setup to be accessed by any of your computers that use that router.
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This works pretty good but it's not bullet proof. I currently have 2 Macs that access this library and I'm pretty sure my wife's PC could access it as well for her copy of iTunes but she hasn't taken the time to sit down and figure out the settings.
So far, the main failure point is that the iTunes software seems to randomly decide it is going to reset which music folder it is going to access and you have to go back into the preferences and tell it (again!) to use the folder on the network drive. This is especially annoying with my Macbook. It accesses the router wirelessly and EVERY time I close the Macbook it resets which folder it want to access.

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Hi,
is it possible to use Cover Flow with my shared music?

I have the exact same problem. I guess we're a minority enough that Apple doesn't care about those with large iPods and laptops (so no syncing).
The problem is that with iTunes 7, it was changed to accomdate CoverFlow. Previously, all album art added was automatically embedded into the file.
However, CoverFlow deals with loading lots of images, so iTunes 7 stores the album art in a folder - instead of embedding - in your iTunes directory as a "cache" so that it can easily and quickly retreive the images when you view CoverFlow (as opposed to having to reload every time).
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I am unsure why the two are not compatible because .mp3 and .aac files can be played in both versions and the files are unchanged. It would be nice if they would give an option for backwards compatibility but why would they spend the money to keep customers happy?
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