At the Preferences window, click on the Sharing tab. Click on the checkbox to "Share my library on my local network." Choose whether you want to share your entire network or just selected playlists. Then select whether you want to enable a password. The last option for "Home Sharing computers and devices update play counts" keeps tabs on how many times you play a particular song, which can be useful if you wish to compile a playlist of your favorite tunes. Click OK.
can i have my itunes library on two different computers
You can have iTunes on multiple computers, however your library will be unique to each computer. You can use home sharing with iTunes to share music from one library to another within the same household.
i have a burning question thats needs a very thorough explination. i want my itunes library on my desktop and laptop so when i'm on my desktop i can listen to it on there and when i'm out and about i can listen to it on my laptop. if this possible can someone explain to me how it's done as i don't want to acidently wipe my library if you know what i mean.
Although it isn't possible to sync an Apple device with two different libraries it is possible to sync with the same logical library from multiple computers. Each library has an internal ID and when iTunes connects to your iPod/iPad/iPhone it compares the local ID with the one the device normally syncs with. If they are the same you can go ahead and sync...
I have my library cloned to a small 1Tb USB drive which I can take between home & work. At either location I use SyncToy 2.1 to update the local copy with the external drive. Mac users should be able to find similar tools. I can open either of the local libraries or the one on the external drive and update the media content of my iPhone. The slight exception is Photos which normally connects to a specific folder on a specific machine, although that can easily be remapped to the current library if you create a "Photos" folder inside the iTunes Media folder so that syncing the iTunes folders keeps this up to date as well. I periodically sweep my library for new files & orphans with iTunes Folder Watch just in case I make changes at one location but then overwrite the library with a newer copy from the other. Again Mac users should be able to find similar tools.
As long as your media is organised within an Tunes Media folder, in turn held inside the main iTunes folder that has your library files (whether or not you let iTunes keep the media folder organised) each library can access items at the same relative path from the library folder so the library can be at different drives/paths on different machines. This solution ensures I always have adequate backups of my library and I can update my devices whenever I can connect to the same build of iTunes.
It was all very easy when you had one iPod and one computer. But what do you do when you have an iPhone, 4 iPods, and three computers in the same household? Can you sync multiple computers to one iPod or vice versa?
If you have two computers in your house, and you want to share your music between them, you simply have to go to your iTunes preferences and turn on library sharing as follows (this is with Snow Leopard) :
Hey! I had the same problem and just figured it out. You have to click on Advanced in the toolbar at the top of the screen and turn on Home Sharing. You have to log in with your Apple ID with both computers, then voila!
I moved my entire library to an external drive. Now my Itunes listing grid is gone. I emptied my trash of the music still on my internal drive after I copied to the external drive. How do I get the itunes listing grid back to my Imac? Please help. I am desperate.
i have an older ipod classic as well as a nano connected to sync to my itunes account. i just got an iphone, and when i plug it in, nothing even pops up in itunes acknowledging that there is a device. how can i sync it?
I have an iPod touch 4 and an iPhone 4 each with separate libraries but under same apple id. I want to merge the libraries creating one to use with both devices as they contain different music and audiobooks. Can I do this?
So can you share iTunes library between two users? Well, the answer is YES! This guide will introduce you 3 ways that can help you share iTunes library with family and friends. These 3 methods can all help you share iTunes library on two computers, but if you want to share iTunes library between two users that using different Apple IDs, please refer to Way 3 to get the detailed steps.
I have two Macs -- on usually at home and one carry around. I'd like to keep my music, movies, iPhone apps, etc. on an external drive so that I can always use the same library regardless of which machine I'm at.
I've been using this method for the past year without any problems, but note that if you don't allow the drive to be mounted before you try to use iTunes, it will try to create a new library on the local hard drive. But you can again bypass this by holding alt when you launch iTunes (so you could, for example, have a few movies on the local library and a 2nd library on the external drive with all your files).
While iTunes can't automatically sync the same library between two computers the way it can with an iPhone or iPad, you can keep them in sync yourself. If you just want to sync the same music and videos between two computers in your office, iTunes Home Sharing is the most convenient option. If you want to sync your computer at home with the computer at work, you can use an iPhone, iPad or iPod to sync each of them. Apple lets you authorize up to five computers for the same content you purchased on iTunes.
Ensure that both computers are on the same network. Download and install the latest version of iTunes on each computer if you don't have it already. (See Resources for the link.) Launch iTunes on both computers.
macOS supports media sharing. One Mac (with the library) can make it available for streaming to other computers running iTunes/Music on your LAN. And if you also enable Home Sharing, then other devices (like my Apple TV and iPads) can also stream them if they are logged in to your Apple ID.
When the conversion completes, you will have two copies of each track in your library - the original and the converted one. You can then copy the converted file out of the library (see below) and delete it to avoid wasting space in your library.
What also might work is to store your local music library in the cloud servers App folder on your machines. This would place the most recent copy of the music library on the cloud server as well. The issue with this, aside from needing to have an internet connection for updating, is that if you used Music on both machines at the same time, it might lead to corruption of the music library. The advantage of this is that the entire process would be done without user intervention and you would have the latest synced version of your library available without an internet connection as well as a constant backup of your music library on a cloud server.
Please understand that this is all theory as I have not attempted any of this myself. I strongly urge you to make a complete backup of your current music library before trying any of this as I am not sure it would actually work.
What I am currently doing is having my music library and my downloaded or copied music on an external drive and making an alias of the folder containing it in the music folder on my boot drive. The folder on the external drive is named the same and in the same configuration as the would be default folder on my boot drive. Time Machine also backs up the external drive. This way I can use a smaller less expensive boot drive and should I have boot drive corruption, if it should fail, or need to do a reinstall my music library is left safe and intact and all I need to do to get things working again is to recreate the alias and adjust Preferences in the Music App.
Note: If the Home Sharing option is grayed out, you might have to authorize your computer. To do this, open the iTunes or Apple Music app and click Account > Authorize > Authorize This Computer. However, you can only set up Home Sharing on up to five computers at once. To find out more about how to authorize and deauthorize your computers, check out our step-by-step guide here.
To access a shared iTunes library on another device, you need to set up Home Sharing on a Mac or Windows computer first. Then you can share, import, or even stream music from up to five computers. Home Sharing will only work if the following requirements are met:
When you select a shared library, it will take a moment for it to be loaded. This will only take seconds if you have a relatively small library. However, if you are sharing a huge library, this can take much longer.
I've had success putting my music on a shared server (a Windows home server box) and using Hamachi to map the Music share across my machines. Once you have all your machines pointing to the same music share you can just keep the iTunes library files synced between them.
TuneRanger connects iTunes-running computers over any network, allowing you to copy music, video and playlists from one iTunes library to another. Music, video and playlists can then be synchronized and merged with the click of a button. Buy a song on any computer, add an album cover or lyrics, and all changes are updated everywhere. Easy!
I haven't tried this, but I plan to: LiveDrive gives you unlimited storage for $150 a year, and allows you to mount your stuff as a local drive (L: or whatever you want it to be). They advertise specifically the ability to share iTunes libraries between different computers.
If you would like to have your merged music library on your first computer as well, simply use TouchCopy on your first computer to copy your device's music to it (connect your iPhone with TouchCopy on the first computer, then use "Copy to iTunes").
In most cases, your dedicated iTunes library might be stored on a particular computer in your home. In others, you might have a network drive where you store your iTunes data. Either way, you might come to a point where you want to have access to your iTunes account across multiple devices. 2ff7e9595c
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