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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Authored by: syko on Feb 16, '04 12:35:37PM

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--

1- get info on your itunes music folder and give permission to everyone (including everything else inside)

2- make an alias of the itunes stuff

3- log into other account and copy those aliases over to your itunes stuff.. bam, that's it..

now when they log on they'll get your music library, playlists, etc.. they can rate stuff, make new playlists and so on



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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Authored by: rhowell on Feb 16, '04 12:43:24PM
But they can't implement changes on any new songs that are added by the original user.

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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Authored by: captnswing on Feb 16, '04 12:48:52PM

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

furthermore, in this scenario, user A cannot change e.g. a playlist created by user B. You would have to manually change permissions every once in a while to prevent these problems.

not exactly clean and useful me thinks, hence i wrote that guide



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Share an iTunes library among multiple users (revisited)
Authored by: krunk on Dec 09, '04 03:16:54PM

Cron. Learn it, love it. :)



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