Me and my roommate share the same computer. We also share the same taste in music. He has been importing his cd's on his library, I have been importing onto my library. All of his music is on my iTunes library, but I cant play them because it's on his library, and vice versa. We want to be able to play his music and my music on both our different logins, but I can't figure out how, and it's driving us crazy. Is there any way to consolidate both of our librarys into one single library? Why does iTunes do this? All I want is one iTunes library for ALL the users on this one computer? I"ve searched the internet and I cant find any good answer for this very common problem. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
2007-02-12 09:15:36 · 5 answers · asked by pierceplatinum 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Music & Music Players
That one is easy.
Set your iTunes Music parent folder under properties and allow for sharing.
Also in iTunes preferences you can setup sharing in there as well.
My sister and her 2 kids all have iPods on 3 different User accounts and I set them up so they can pick songs they like out of the others music files so it can be done.
2007-02-12 09:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question - My husband and I share the same problem. WIth earlier versions of iTunes, you could share music and songs in each other's libraries. Ever since we had to download the newer version of iTunes, we've been denied access to songs that the other person has downloaded. I understand that they are trying to prevent copywright infringement, but if it's on the same computer, really is that necessary?!?!
I hope you have some luck in figuring out what to do!
2007-02-12 09:27:59 · answer #2 · answered by ckgusto 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are two ways that I know of, but it's for Windows. If you're working with a Mac I have no idea.
One.) You can transfer your music files folder (my music>iTunes>iTunes music) to the shared files on your computer. Then from there you can open up iTunes and go to the import button (file>import) and find the file that you just put on your shared files drive and import that directly to your library.
Two.) If you have an iPod then go to this site: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
Hope one of those will work for you.
2007-02-12 09:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by ashlyn absinthe 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the least perplexing difficulty to do is to make a separate consumer on the workstation on your brother. iTunes isn't made to deal with distinctive libraries. specific, you're able to try this shift key difficulty, whether it does not have a tendency to flow properly. right here is yet another concept: share. you've got diverse money owed which you purchase with to maintain music. If he needs an app, he buys it, and you may use it. in case you p.c. an app, you purchase it and he can use it. it is mutually valuable.
2016-10-02 00:58:42 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think you can do it unless there is some third party software that can make it happen
Try asking in the apple discussion forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=146
2007-02-12 09:22:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋