Sharing Music with the rest of the family over iTunes

I have an MBP, with all of my family's music on it. My husband has a PC laptop. I have enabled sharing, so that he can see our music and use his computer with AirTunes to play music over our speakers. However, he is not able to make his own playlists on his computer, and then put those playlists on his iPhone. This is really annoying for him. Plus, he doesn't buy music on iTunes, because then he wouldn't really be able to share it with me.
I would like our music (and photos, too, for that matter) to sit on a server in our home network and everyone to have equal access to them - be able to make their own playlists, etc. Is this possible? Would getting a Mac Mini and putting the music on it work? Anyone have experience like this?
Reading these forums, this kind of question seems to be a common issue. Apple, are you developing some kind of family media center?

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.
Next, I moved my iTunes music folder to that hard drive.
Finally, you go into iTunes preferences and tell it that you want to use the iTunes Music folder that is located on your "Networked" drive.
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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You could set up two completely separate libraries and share music via 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
Chris CA's instructions on sharing one iTunes music library between multiple user accounts - https://discussions.apple.com/message/8974074 - Multiple users using a single library file - similar post at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3753008
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Barrie222 wrote:
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