My Quick Fix

This is a REALLY simple one… Today, I was looking at the preferences / settings in iTunes (version and saw the ‘sharing’ tab. I’d never noticed it before. So I had a play and 1 minute later four of us at work were sharing our whole libraries with each other. Excellent!

1. Click on ‘Edit’ > ‘Preferences’ from the toolbar.
2. In the Preferences window, select the ‘Sharing’ tab.
3. In here, tick the ‘Look for shared libraries’ and ‘Share my library on my local network’ tickboxes. CLick ‘OK’.
4. Do this on as many other iTunes equipped PC / MAC machines as you want to share with.
5. Look in the left pane of iTunes and -if any libraries are on the network – you should see ‘Shared Libraries’ appear. Wohoo!

Of course this isn’t really a fix, and it’s not even hard to find, but I’ve been using iTunes in a networked environment for years and have never come across it, so I figure other might not have either.

Google search helper phrases: Sharing iTunes library over a windows network. Networked iTunes. Connect to library overy wired ethernet or wireless LAN.