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10.3: Make iTunes available to all in multiple users mode
Authored by: lstewart on Jan 14, '04 11:32:58AM

You know, back in iTunes version 2 and earlier, the software behaved kind of like this all the time. I don't know if the setting itself existed--probably not--but iTunes allowed multiple instances of the software to have the library open at the same time.

For instance, I had both our Macs networked, and aliases set up so that both of them accessed the same iTunes library on one of the machines. It was pretty slick.

Write contention was handled like this: the first machine to open the iTunes library (Machine A) had it write-locked, and the second one (Machine B) had it read-only. If iTunes on Machine B made a change to the file, it would create its own copy of the iTunes library (called iTunes Library 2) in the same folder, and make its edits in there. These edits, to my knowledge, would NOT be assimilated or merged back into the original library, so this was an easy way to get things out-of-whack.

I suspect maybe it still works the same way. So if you do this, please be aware that you should only make changes to the iTunes library from the account that first opened iTunes!



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10.3: Make iTunes available to all in multiple users mode
Authored by: ericdano on Mar 06, '04 12:51:28AM

Yeah. I am trying to set up a server that will allow for multiple computers to access the same set of music and iTunes library. Actually, which ever computer quits LAST seems to overwrite the Library files.



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