[OmniX]

just tried to browse an iTunes shared library on my subnet and received the following message, which i've never seen before:

"The Shared Music Library "xxx" accepts only five different users each day. Please try again later."

Is this a new restriction with 4.7.x (I recently upgraded to 4.7.1 from 4.6)? If so I would imagine Apple has been feeling heat from the music industry again... i wonder if further restrictions are coming down the road...
On a different note, does anyone know the technical specifics as to how this restriction is implemented? For example, how does iTunes identify 'different" users? Is it by IP, or something to do with the 'FairPlay' DRM model?

cheers,
ox

[Visnaut]

Interesting. I was under the impression it only allowed five simultaneous connections. Does this mean it now logs how many IPs have accessed iTunes within a 24h time period?

[wataru]

This is pretty alarming. I'm surprised more people aren't pissed about this. Did they clearly state this change anywhere?

[lavar78]

Originally posted by wataru:
This is pretty alarming. I'm surprised more people aren't pissed about this. Did they clearly state this change anywhere?

I doubt it affects that many people, so that's probably why there isn't a big response.

[theseum]

this was introduced in 4.7.1, and no they didn't document this little "feature" anywhere If you're running an older version, you might have noticed in increase in inexplicable generic "couldn't connect' or "library not accepting connections" messages, that is 4.7.1 users who have reached their 5 client limit for the day (you only see the new error message if you also have 4.7.1).

does anybody either have a workaround for this (I heard there used to be a workaround for the five simultaneous connections limit, maybe that would be a good place to start?) or alternately a 4.7 installer so that i can downgrade?

thanks!

this change does in fact affect a lot of people, specifically college students. itunes has become pretty much ubiquitous on college networks thanks to the sharing feature and now they have decided to go and bite the hand that feeds them. I forsee a lot of people switching back to winamp once they discover that sharing has been totally crippled.

[Thinine]

Apple always intended that the sharing feature only be used by people who own the music on the share, as a way of playing your music from any computer you own. The fact that people got used to massive amounts of local sharing in some situations is irrelevant, it was never a feature Apple advertised.

[theseum]

ummm.... yeah. well in any case does anybody know of a workaround? surely somebody at least has a pre 4.7.1 installer to facilitate downgrading...

thanks again!

[GuyWithACamera]

There's a 4.7 installer on your iDisk if you're a subscriber.

[Mithras]

iTunes must be recording these IP addresses somewhere on disk, no? Otherwise it wouldn't maintain between launches. So we just need to figure out where that is, and how to safely clean-sweep it.

[alphasubzero949]

Originally posted by Mithras:
iTunes must be recording these IP addresses somewhere on disk, no? Otherwise it wouldn't maintain between launches. So we just need to figure out where that is, and how to safely clean-sweep it.

It's very hard to find, just like the file that controls the authorization.

[SSharon]

Originally posted by Mithras:
iTunes must be recording these IP addresses somewhere on disk, no? Otherwise it wouldn't maintain between launches. So we just need to figure out where that is, and how to safely clean-sweep it.

I don't know much about this exactly but I think I can help point some smarter people her in the right direction. When someone else is connected to your itunes library and listening to a song their IP address is available. Open activity viewer and "inspect" iTunes. Then click on the open files tab and scroll all the way to the bottom.

Hope that helps, report back with any luck.