Looking to share my Itunes Library with my wife on same machine. SO for example, when I log off, and she logs in, I would like to be able to access my library in her ITunes.
I have spent countless hours combing the internet with no success and wondered if this is now even possible. I have read this THIS stack exchange thread about how to share but it seems this method doesnt work.
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When I open Itunes on my wifes account with OPTION key and choose the newly created Library from my existing account nothing gets imported.
Another method I tried and failed with is to simply export the the Library from my existing Itunes as XML. The result was that the playlists get loaded fine but all the songs are missing (except for 3 or 4 songs)!
It should be noted that all the Media for the playlists and libraries are in a shared folder that are accessible to my wife's account with read & write permissions turned on.
I also tried setting up Home Sharing, but this does not seem to work on the same machine.
Running Sierra 10.12.6 with Itunes version 12.7.2.60
At this point i have no clue what to do. Any help is appreciated.
Best Answer
The trick to doing this is to have your iTunes library stored in a location that is accessible to both accounts (i.e. both users have read/write access), and to then configure iTunes in both accounts to use the same library.
My recommended approach for doing this is to use an external drive connected to your Mac and then configure iTunes within each of your Mac accounts to use that library.
Follow these steps:
~/Music/iTunes/
) to a location accessible by all user accounts. As mentioned above, my personal preference is to store it on an external drive connected to your Mac.After doing the above you'll be able to access the same iTunes library from either user account.
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