Holiday-friendly iTunes music sharing

Dec 05, '08 07:30:01AM

Contributed by: kencunningham

If you're like me, you keep your music organized on one central Mac set up to share the music library to the household using iTunes music sharing. But when the Christmas season comes along, there is a collection of holiday music to be shared, yet who wants to have that cluttering up the main music library all year long?

The simple solution is to add a new user to the "server" Mac, then load all the holiday music into iTunes running under that user. Share the music using a distinct name, like "Christmas Music." You can share the music from multiple copies of iTunes on the same Mac under different users, so it won't interfere with the usual music library sharing.

At the end of the Christmas season, back up the music (or the entire user), delete it, and then put it away until next year!

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one (with "this" being multiple users sharing music from one Mac at the same time). Here I just keep the holiday music unchecked in the main library (and my other smart playlists are set to play checked songs only), and use a smart playlist set to the Holiday genre for listening to holiday music.]

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