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iTunes shared libraries
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mala
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Oct 17, 2004, 08:30 AM
 
Hi,

me and my wife are sharing iTunes music libraries on the same Mac but with different user accounts. To make my wife see my music library my user account has to be logged in and iTunes started. Otherwise my library won't show up on her's iTunes playlists. Is this really the best way to do it? Isn't it possible someway to share music libraries without the need of logging in several users and starting iTunes up?
     
zachs
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Oct 17, 2004, 09:46 AM
 
This should do what you want.
     
CatOne
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Oct 17, 2004, 11:13 AM
 
Originally posted by zachs:
This should do what you want.
Yes that will work.

Another solution (would cost less money ;-) would be to move the music folder up to a subdirectory of /Users and change it so everyone in the group had read & write access to it. Actually with the way OS X does groups now (group ID = user ID) you'd have to change all users to also be a member of group "staff" (20) and chgrp the music folder to that :/
     
   
 
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