Step Into My Office Baby... - Louis Gray

I love it when software updates introduce a tool that I actually use :) - Ross Miller

I love that too! - AJ Batac

How is this different from sharing the library the way it used to work? Or is this more useful for when you want to disconnect the network and still have access to all the music? - Benjamin Golub

Benjamin: exactly. It works like the transfer purchases feature on iPods and iPhones: you don't have to be connected to the home network to play them, because the files are copied to your computer. - Mark Trapp

Wait, you can finally use the songs you buy on more than one computer without having to jump through hoops? My boss would've loved this feature five years ago. Explaining DRM to him was not fun, he just wanted his $1 songs to be playable on all of his PCs. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Ben, the main advantage is that you can set it to automatically sync the libraries so that a copy of new purchases is on both computers. I'm just using it to copy my whole library to a new computer. - Ross Miller

So is it possible for me and my wife to share music, on each of our computers, bought on different accounts, before and after we have gotten married? - Rasmus Lauridsen

Rasmus: I doubt it. This feature, and all the features in the iTunes/iPod/iPhone ecosystem, only allow one active account. - Mark Trapp

and of files you haven't aquired via itunes? - alphaxion

But you can activate more than one account in Itunes... I have mine + my wife's two accounts authorized. But yeah it's probably going to be another case of having to still do it manually - Rasmus Lauridsen

Alphaxion, it just copies them over like any purchases from iTunes. When you open the home sharing center, there's a view to 'only see songs that are not on this computer'. You just select which songs you want to copy and hit import. - Ross Miller

On a related note, something I've been wondering about recently is the best way to share a library between two Windows user accounts on the same machine. Seems silly to sync them when the files are on the same machine, but I'd like new purchases to appear automatically. Is that possible somehow? - Tony Ruscoe from iPhone

Tony, I think you can do that by changing the 'iTunes Media folder location' to be the same destination. Just choose which /Music/iTunes you want to use and set them both to that one. You can change the location from the Advanced tab in Preferences. - Ross Miller

Thanks. I think I'll have to try that. I did wonder about doing that but wasn't sure whether that would just copy the files to the same folder, leaving the libraries out of sync though. - Tony Ruscoe from fftogo

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