Feb 16, '04 09:02:00AM • Contributed by: captnswing
[robg adds: We've covered this subject before, but this approach is quite different, so I thought it was worth sharing.]
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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Feb 16, '04 09:02:00AM • Contributed by: captnswing
I wrote a step by step guide that will allow you to painlessly share one iTunes Music library among several users on one machine. This even works with fast user switching under Panther, such that the currently active user will have full rights over the library (add/change/delete) ... i.e. in my case, my girlfriend can create playlists and burn CDs off my music collection.
[robg adds: We've covered this subject before, but this approach is quite different, so I thought it was worth sharing.]
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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
This is really great! Is there anyway to do this with iPhoto?
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
I am in the process of writing this up. The same idea (setting unix group permissions of the shared folder on launch of the program through a script that runs as root). Will post it on my site and write it to Rob as soon as its done. <br>
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
not sure what the other hints cover but i had to do this the other day for a client and it only involved a few steps--
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
But they can't implement changes on any new songs that are added by the original user.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
this obvious approach works fine, of course, until the day one of the users imports a new song into itunes. These songs cannot be changed or deleted by anyone else but by who originally imported them
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Cron. Learn it, love it. :)
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
I set my iBook up like this a few months ago when I turned it into a music server connected up to real speakers. I have 2 users on there; an admin user and an iTunes user with extremely limited access. Both users can add / edit / delete iTunes songs and it syncs to my iPod with no problems. My favorite part though, is that I changed Apache to run as the iTunes user (security vulnerability, I know, but as it's on my local network I'm not worried) and I wrote a web based interface to iTunes which I can control from any computer on the network. It's a great little jukebox setup.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Anybody that's ready to do a clean install might want to consider designating a separate partition for all of the shared iTunes music and iPhoto pictures. I called mine "media". Then "Get Info" on the media partition and check "Ignore ownership on this volume". Then the only necessary step from this original hint is to create aliases from the respective Music and Pictures (for iPhoto) folders in each user's directory. No scripts, no permission changes, etc. Anyone can add/delete/modify anything on this volume, as the system will show everything as being owned by them.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Looks pretty good, but wouldn't it be easier to just have startiTunes.sh run at login? That way users can just run iTunes normally.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
I will post the Applescript code, its just a one liner, check the page soon
Share an iTunes library and set the sticky bit.
I put the shared iTunes Music folder in the shared folder and set the user to root, group to staff and set the sticky bit. Check out
man chmod and man sticky to learn more about sticky directories. This way the music I import can only be edited or deleted by me and the music others import can only be edited or deleted by the them. The only problem I can see is if one user imports an artist another user can't import that same artist because they can't modify that artist's folder. But this hasn't been a problem for me.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Has anyone yet managed to do the same with iTunes for Windows ?? The songs can be shared, however, I couldnt figure out how to share the "Library.xml" file so that rating, playlists, etc. also remain shared.
Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
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