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iTunes over the network?
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Me and my Mom are planning to get a new iMac soon and she wants to use it more than I do (she wants it to be 'her' machine, but It has a 500 GB HD and 2 GB of RAM when I have 80 GB and 1 GB of RAM  ). Anyway, I plan to dump my iTunes library off this machine (MacBook) to free up some space on my HD after I migrate my user to the iMac, so I was wondering, can I set iTunes on this machine to the library on the other? I know in the advanced tab in iTunes you can configure where your music folder is, I was wondering if I could just point iTunes that way.  All I actively do with iTunes is listen to podcasts, will they be affected?
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If you open iTunes with the option key held down it will ask you if you want to create a library or open one. You can then point it to your mom's iMac and it will open the library across the network.
The problem with this is that if the library is opened on both machines the last person to close it will write the iTunes Library file. That can cause issues if both of you make changes to it.
If you just want access to all of her iMac's iTunes, you could always use the library (read only) via the shared Libraries in iTunes.
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Yep - have one machine 'host' the library, add music to that machine only, and share it with the other machine.
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Originally Posted by mdc 
If you open iTunes with the option key held down it will ask you if you want to create a library or open one. You can then point it to your mom's iMac and it will open the library across the network.
The problem with this is that if the library is opened on both machines the last person to close it will write the iTunes Library file. That can cause issues if both of you make changes to it.
If you just want access to all of her iMac's iTunes, you could always use the library (read only) via the shared Libraries in iTunes.
Originally Posted by peeb
Yep - have one machine 'host' the library, add music to that machine only, and share it with the other machine.
Sweet 
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I have tried to "Share" the library wfrom my iMac to Macbook before. All my music is updated on an external HD attached directly to the iMac, however I have been unsuccessful in sharing.
Can you explain in a bit more detail how it is done, other than putting the library in the "Public" folder?
Thanks
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