Mac 101: Sharing your iTunes Library in 3 easy steps

MyTunesRSS also uses the playlists created in iTunes as well as M3U files when using watch folder (and not the iTunes library) as a data source.

MacAddict

Its one thing to share songs - but how do I share the playlists I've created on my main desktop (1.24 G4 PowerMac). We have a mini downstairs and an iBook and while they can see the library, neither can see the playlists. With 14,000 songs and 100 gigs of music, Playlists are important!

As Zack Kitzmiller said in the first comment: use MyTunesRSS. It seems perfect for your needs. Your users could browse the music with a simple web browser and play music directly with the Flash player. No need for any other software than a browser on the client side. You can of course use XSPF or M3U playlists with other client software as well and therefor you can save playlists on your computer as well. The RSS feature also gives you the option to have them automatically updated, e.g. if someone changes the contents of a playlist.

MacAddict

We have this running in our office as well, the only issue we have is there is a 5-user limit to sharing. I don't know if this was to save bandwidth or the computer's processor from using too much or what? So we had to mirror the whole huge playlist on a few of my user's systems, that way when one system has reached its 5-user max per day, there is another one that is open for other users to use.

I wish we could just setup an iTunes server that hosts as many connections as possible. Right now iTunes is the only thing running on a server we have, but again, only 5 connections... I would also love to make it so my users could create playlists from this hosted iTunes songs. This saves so much internet bandwidth as I did this to keep my users from listening to 'net radio.

-----------------------------
http://www.ITFinanceGuy.com

surfwizz -

2 ways to do this.

1) the way i do it is i move my itunes library to /Users/Shared/. this way i can have it in any account and they can all modify it.

2) this is more complicated/inconvenient. log into one account, open itunes and enable sharing, leave itunes open and use the user login switcher to log into the other user, open itunes, and there you have your first accounts shared itunes files.

hope that helps, i prefer and recommend using a shared folder

does anyone know if there is a way to share an iTunes library across two accounts on the same computer?

I discovered this feature a few years back and within a week had everyone in my office sharing their music....good times. The only thing I find annoying about this is that you can't make playlists with music on a shared library. If anyone knows a way around this, please share your wisdom.. :-)

blogging 101: post about anything

today we will continue to show you how we can add to the amount of posts we make daily by posting about another assinine topic in order to make it look like we are just reaching out to new mac users, when really its because we have nothing of value to post...and we cant get ads served if people have nothing to read, right?

I'm having trouble with one of my PeeCees. iTunes sharing is enabled on my Mac. PeeCee 1 is able to find the share folder on my Mac but PeeCee 2 can't. I'm pretty sure it's because PeeCee 2 has the firewall (ZoneAlarm), which PeeCee 1 doesn't.
Anyone behind a firewall having the same problem?

Is there anyway the shared files be display in CoverFlow? The lack of this feature is the reason why I created a Playlist for a my Lost DVDrip (original DVD) that is stored on a network PC.