Sharing itunes between a mac and pc

[MDavid]

Hello,
I just recently purchased my macbook and i'm trying to access my music from one of the desktop's that is running windows xp sp2 with itunes.
On my mac i can see my playlist "Mario's Music" but when i click on it i am sent back to my default playlist and music thats on my mac.. I try going to apple support and did everything as described... still no worky for me.

:bone:

Thanks,
Mario

 

[jsb515]

make sure you have sharing enabled on your pc in prefrences under edit and make sure the music library is loaded on your pc. I just did the same setup with my network and works great! Congrats on the new mac you will NOT be disappointed! let me know if you need any more help.

 

[MDavid]

I can see my computer "mario's music" on my mac, but my music doesnt show up.

 

[tandaina]

Are you trying to share using iTunes?

Make sure the PC has iTunes running and you have set it to share music.

Run iTunes on the Mac. You should see a "Mario's Library". Open that and all your music and playlists should be there. Note that iTunes MUST be running no the host computer. I have just left my PC on as a music/file server and leave iTunes always running.

If you are trying to do this without iTunes make sure you have shared the folder in Windows. However, I don't think you can make iTunes on the mac use the remote folder on the PC as its source folder, but you can copy the music over this way if you like.

 

[MDavid]

Are you trying to share using iTunes?

Make sure the PC has iTunes running and you have set it to share music.

Run iTunes on the Mac. You should see a "Mario's Library". Open that and all your music and playlists should be there. Note that iTunes MUST be running no the host computer. I have just left my PC on as a music/file server and leave iTunes always running.

If you are trying to do this without iTunes make sure you have shared the folder in Windows. However, I don't think you can make iTunes on the mac use the remote folder on the PC as its source folder, but you can copy the music over this way if you like.

Everything that you just wrote, is exactly what i did. On the pc the setting is on sharing and on my mac i can see "Mario's Music" but when i click on it , it goes returns to my songs on my mac..
My itunes are also updated if that helps.

Thanks,
Mario

 

[mac57]

Has anyone tried this? Can you use basic file sharing between the Mac and the PC? Put your iTunes library on one machine or the other. Then make the machines visible to each other via basic file sharing. Whichever machine doesn't have the iTunes library on it - point the iTunes of that machine to the library on the other machine. In essence, both machines are working against a single shared iTunes library, hosted on one machine or the other.

You can point Mac iTunes to an external/shared drive/folder on the PC by:

1. Open iTunes preferences.
2. Click the Advanced icon (gear).
3. Under General, you'll see the location of the music folder.
4. Simply point it to the folder you'd like to use.

 

[jsb515]

PC firewall maybe?

 

[XMARLTONX]

You could try OurTunes

if you have a network set up.