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I've just bought a MacBookPro to work alongside my existing iMac but am a bit confused as to how to best use iTunes now.
On my iMac my wife and I both have separate user accounts and within each account we each have our own iTunes library and iTunes account. All iTunes media files are stored on an external USB drive connected to the iMac. This works fine on the iMac.
On the MBP we've bought I've again set-up two user accounts for us both and now want to set-up iTunes on each account as well. However because the iTunes library is over 100GB I don't want the media to be copied onto the MBP. Instead I just want to be able to access the libraries on the iMac with all the playlists etc from the MBP and then stream the media over the network.
Is that possible, if so how?
Also, would it be possible in this way that if we were using the MBP and bought something from the iTunes store it would save the file(s) to the external USB drive on the iMac as well as update the iTunes library on the iMac?
On my iMac my wife and I both have separate user accounts and within each account we each have our own iTunes library and iTunes account. All iTunes media files are stored on an external USB drive connected to the iMac. This works fine on the iMac.
On the MBP we've bought I've again set-up two user accounts for us both and now want to set-up iTunes on each account as well. However because the iTunes library is over 100GB I don't want the media to be copied onto the MBP. Instead I just want to be able to access the libraries on the iMac with all the playlists etc from the MBP and then stream the media over the network.
Is that possible, if so how?
Also, would it be possible in this way that if we were using the MBP and bought something from the iTunes store it would save the file(s) to the external USB drive on the iMac as well as update the iTunes library on the iMac?