[Freeflyer]

Hi, I have a powerbook with my itunes on an external hard drive. I can hook up my ipod and copy across just fine.

We've just bought another powerbook and ipod for my wife, and want to be able to access my itunes database for more than streaming.

She can stream my tunes fine, but I'd like to be able to plug her ipod into her powerbook and get the tunes from my powerbook. At the moment it doesn't work.

Is there a way to do this, or is she going to have to set up a new set of play lists on my laptop (don't want that).

The ideal would be for her to be able to build her own playlists on her powerbook, and drag the tracks from my shared itunes and then connect her powerbook and sync the playlists so that it copies the tracks from my powerbook onto her ipod.

There is nothing illegal involved here, we have just ripped our cd collection and want to access it from both machines. As the collection is about 40Gb, we don't want to duplicate it., and it won't fit on her machine anyway.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks,

J.

[rocheb]

You should be able to do this with file sharing.

You can create an account for your wife (or she could use your account name) on your laptop. Then she could connect to it (Finder>Go>Connect to Server) and then mount the FW drive and link iTunes to that drive. But then you have to have the drive mounted before you open iTunes or it wont find any songs.

Hope that helps.

[WJMoore]

Why plug the FW drive into your wife's PowerBook and let her make her own playlists, sync the iPod and then you get the drive back. If she wants to play the songs on her PowerBook she can stream them and she should have all the ones she wants on her iPod. Perhaps a periodic resync of the iPod and all is well.

WM