Am I missing something? iTunes and me and the wife.

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:23:56 GMT

Ok, so I am supposed to be able to figure this out. iTunes is not really that hard to figure out is it? Well it seems I have found something iTunes can't do. Or can it?

What I am trying to do is, share my iTunes library of purchased music with my wife's Mac Pro (running Windows XP and Mac OSX) and her iTunes client. Well, that was easy to do. I shared out my iTunes folder on my PC, and on my wife's machine mapped a drive to that same shared folder. Cool, that's easy, simple, a no-brainer. We added the folder to the iTunes library on my wife's machine. It scanned, it found all the music and allowed us to authorize iTunes to play the music. All is good, right? No, it ain't

You see when either of us now buy music it won't update the others iTunes client with that purchase. I finally figured it was because the 'iTunes Library database' (an .itl file) is not the same on each client. Now, how do I get each client to use the same database? That's just it, I haven't figured that out yet. I am still researching, but I thought I would ask you guys if you have any ideas or solutions?

If you do, leave a comment. I'll reward you with a HUGE Thank You from myself and my wife. If I beat you to it, buy me a Guinness, no buy two, one for the wife.

Update 1: I may have found a way to do this. Will post the link once I have tried it out.
Possible Solution 1: http://lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-...
And while I was playing with that I found a very cool Windows Toy, HERE.

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Am I missing something? iTunes and me and the wife.