Hi Peter,
You are confused with iTunes “Sharing” & iTunes “Home Sharing” … again!
Read the Archives thread back on 28 & 29th January 2011
From: Ronda Brown <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: iTunes sharing
Date: 29 January 2011 11:44:36 AM AWST
To: WAMUG <[email protected]>
Hi Peter,
If the kids have selected in their iTunes > Preferences > Sharing - “look for
shared libraries” & “Share my Library on my local network” on their Macs, each
library will show under shared in each of their iTunes and they can click on a
track and play it.
They don’t need to have “Home Sharing” turned on under “Advanced” just to share
and play each others music.
“Home Sharing” allows more than just “Sharing”
iTunes includes another sharing feature called “Home Sharing”. With this
feature, you can share content across Macs or PCs in your home, copying files
from one computer to another so each user has files locally to play and to sync
to their iOS devices.
Using Home Sharing is much easier than transferring files over a network and
manually adding them to your iTunes library; just select, click and copy.
There is a condition required for this feature: all the users must set it up
using the same iTunes Store account. (This is obviously to dissuade people from
setting Home Sharing up with friends.)
Perhaps these links might help:
<http://www.macworld.com.au/help/sharing-itunes-libraries-2-16691/>
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819>
<http://www.wikihow.com/Set-up-Home-Sharing-in-iTunes>
Windows 7 & iTunes Home Sharing:
<http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/77534.aspx>
Cheers,
Ronni
—
AND
From: Peter Crisp <[email protected]>
Date: 29 January 2011 9:59:51 AM AWST
To: 'WAMUG Mailing List' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: iTunes sharing
Reply-To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>
Hi Ronni, I have accidentally made some progress with this. I did as you
suggested by tilting the arrow, and still the whole library visible and
playable. So I went Advanced>Turn Off Home Sharing" on one of the kids
Macbooks. This still left "Peters Library" showing (but undocked) and when I
selected it, it refreshed and only showed the permissible "Kids Playlist"
from Peter's library".
So while still in the "Home Sharing Turned Off" mode the sharing still seems
to be functioning - eg when another song is added to the "Kids Playlist" on
Peters PC, the Kids Macbooks update automatically to reflect the recent
addition - instantaneously.
So provisionally this issue is resolved, but I am puzzled how in the
"Sharing Off" mode, the Kids Macbooks' remain in an apparent Sharing
capability state.
If there are any closing comments that would be interesting, I am happy for
the moment for it to go down as a mystery as the result is I now have the
security I wanted.
Regards
Peter.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Ronda Brown
Sent: Saturday, 29 January 2011 9:04 AM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: iTunes sharing
Hi Peter,
Under "SHARED" on the kids computers there should be an arrow beside
"Peter's Library"
Open the arrow and they should see "Playlists" . the "Kids Playlist" should
be showing there?
On the other computers that are sharing "Peter's Library" what do their
iTunes Preferences > Sharing have selected?
Cheers,
Ronni
On 17/04/2011, at 7:23 PM, Peter Crisp wrote:
>
> Hi Ronni, I have all set for sharing as I wish to share in all directions and
> not just me as the only "sharer". Is this not an option for me?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter.
> On 17/04/2011, at 5:59 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> We covered this with you back on 29 January 2011
>> Subject: iTunes sharing
>> I’ve pasted part of the email below FYI
>>
>> /Pasted email:
>>
>> From: Ronda Brown <[email protected]>
>> Date: 29 January 2011 10:22:41 AM AWST
>> To: WAMUG Mailing List <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: iTunes sharing
>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> That’s correct … Home Sharing should NOT be turned on the other computers
>> iTunes … they are not Sharing their iTunes Library!
>> Home Sharing is being handled via the computer that has “Peter’s Library”
>> iTunes.
>>
>> I presumed you had Home Sharing only set on the one computer that was
>> sharing its iTunes Library.
>> I should know by now “Never Assume Anything” ;-)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> / End pasted email
>>
>> On 17/04/2011, at 5:31 PM, Peter Crisp wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi, I have all Macs (3 of them) and one Windows laptop in the house set up
>>> with home sharing under the one Apple ID. I have iTunes on my laptop open
>>> at all times but not always the case on the others. when I open up iTunes
>>> on one of the others, the Home sharing on the laptop does not report the
>>> presence of the other shared Mac with iTunes open (also with same Apple ID
>>> and Home sharing "turned on"). Is there a refresh process for this in
>>> iTunes?
>>>
>>> I was able to get it to show up by "Turn Home Share Off" then "Turn Home
>>> Share On" again, but not a very elegant solution. There has to be something
>>> smarter than that I'd reckon.
>>>
>>> Any clues anyone?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Peter…
>>>
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7
2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD
OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard
Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
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