Contents
- 1 Can you share iTunes library between users?
- 2 How do I share music between two iTunes accounts on the same computer?
- 3 Can you share your Apple music library?
- 4 Can you share your iTunes library with other devices?
- 5 Where is the shared folder in iTunes on my computer?
- 6 Where is the shared folder on a MacBook Pro?
Up to five of your devices can tap into your iTunes library either directly on a network drive, through a special app, or via a feature called Home Sharing. Through Home Sharing, you can share your iTunes music library from one machine and make it accessible to other devices as long as they’re all on the same network.
You can share music from both libraries by dragging your music library to a publicly accessible location on your computer. Click “Preferences” from the iTunes menu and deselect “Copy files to iTunes Media Library when adding to library file.” Add the shared folder to your library from the “File” menu.
Can I share my Apple music library?
You can use Home Sharing to stream music, movies, and TV shows from one authorized computer to another. Just make sure that your computers are powered on, awake, and have the Music app or iTunes for Windows open. To see all of your shared libraries, click Music in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window.
Through Home Sharing, you can share your iTunes music library from one machine and make it accessible to other devices as long as they’re all on the same network.
How do you share music on a Mac?
To share music from a Mac computer, open the iTunes or Music app and sign in. Then open System Preferences and go to Sharing > Media Sharing > Home Sharing. Finally, sign in again and click OK when you see the pop-up message. Open the Music or iTunes app on your Mac.
Finally, open iTunes, go to iTunes menu (in the menu bar) -> Preferences -> Advanced, and choose the iTunes Media folder in the Shared folder. Do this in all your users. Both roaringgnome’s and Niel’s answer (which is the same as this one) are valid.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 8.1.2 There is a folder in /Users directory named “Shared” which can be opened by all users and where you can put your iTunes library to be shared among different users. Another option would be to use an external drive. You only have to copy the iTunes library to that folder.