Sharing Music Playlists between multiple Itunes ID's
Hi there
As I was the first member of our family to get an Ipod, the Apple & Itunes ID has always been mine. When my daughter got her Ipod, she just logged on using my apple credentials and the playlists were obviously available. With my wife and daughter now moving onto Iphones, they have set up their devices using new Apple ID's and Itunes ID's, and I just wondered if it's possible that I can still share my playlists?
Obviously we don't want to purchase music twice etc, but all 3 of us require the unique id's for Facetime etc
Can anyone help, I can't seem to find a solution to what I hoped was an easy question
To copy music between two computers follow these instructions.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93063
To copy playlists works similar:
On Computer #A select the playlist you want to transfer
From iTunes Menu - File select "Export Song List ..."
Transfer the resulting xml file
On the target computer from iTunes Menu - File select "Import" and select the above mentioned xml file
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