Can you answer this iTunes (Mac) question?
I have three accounts on my Macbook. One is the admin, two do not have admin privileges. I only have one iTunes library, and it is on one of the non-admin accounts.
What is the best way to share the one library with all three accounts—as in it doesn’t matter which account I’m on, if I open iTunes, the same music will be there?
p.s. Will it all be synced?
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go into itunes on the other accounts and set your itunes library to be under MacintoshHD::users::<user who has the library currently>::music::itunes
now the other accounts will read/write from/to the same location
oh, by the way, you do that by going to prefs>advanced>change
@queenzboulevard: You could copy your music folder over to the /Users/Shared folder, then set your library on all accounts to that.
I put my iTunes Music Folder into Users/Shared, but on the other account none of the music shows up when I change the location of the iTunes Music Folder. WTF?
I guess I have to click and drag all of the files into iTunes from that iTunes Music Folder in Users/Shared now? I assumed it would load all the music itself once I changed the library.
Log in as admin, then change the permissions of your user account’s music folder by clicking on it and then choosing “Get Info” from the file menu; in the info window (“Properties” equivalent in Windows), change the Music folder’s access at the bottom (will require admin password), then set to “all users” then lock the settings).
Now the other users will be able to set their music folder to that location (but they’ll need to create their own ITML file on their own home folder/music/iTunes/).
I think that will work (not by my computer at the moment).
What I do on my home system is get an external hard drive and place all the music there. Everyone has access to it that way.
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