{"id":45,"date":"2007-07-06T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-12-20T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T04:18:37","slug":"share-your-itunes-library-with-other-computers-on-your-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/share-your-itunes-library-with-other-computers-on-your-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Share your iTunes library with other computers on your network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a computer on your home network that has a lot of music that you wish you had access to from your other computers?  Well, you can have access with just a few clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure that you have your computers set to share files on your network.  Then, all you have to do is on the computer that has all of the music, do the following:<\/p>\n<p>01.  Open iTunes on the machine that has the music you want to share<br \/>\n02.  Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES (PC) or iTUNES>PREFERENCES (Mac)<br \/>\n03.  Click on the SHARING tab<br \/>\n04.  Check the box next to SHARE MY LIBRARY ON MY LOCAL NETWORK<br \/>\n05.  You can opt to share your entire libary or just certain playlists<br \/>\n06.  You can even require a password if you want by clicking the box next to REQUIRE PASSWORD and entering the password<br \/>\n07.  Click OK<br \/>\n08.  On the computers that you want to access this library, go into PREFERENCES above via Step 2, and check the box next to LOOK FOR SHARED LIBRARIES<br \/>\n09.  Click OK<\/p>\n<p>*iTunes must be open on the machine that has the music library that you are sharing in order for the other machines to be able to view and access it.<br \/>\n10.  Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a computer on your home network that has a lot of music that you wish you had access to from your other computers? Well, you can have access with just a few clicks. Make sure that you have your computers set to share files on your network. Then, all you have to do is on the computer that has all of the music, do the following: 01. Open iTunes on the machine that has the music you want to share 02. Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES (PC) or iTUNES>PREFERENCES (Mac) 03. Click on the SHARING tab 04. Check the box next to SHARE MY LIBRARY ON MY LOCAL NETWORK 05. You can opt to share your entire libary or just certain playlists 06. You can even require a password if you want by clicking the box next to REQUIRE PASSWORD and entering the password 07. Click OK 08. On the computers that you want to access this library, go into PREFERENCES above via Step 2, and check the box next to LOOK FOR SHARED LIBRARIES 09. Click OK *iTunes must be open on the machine that has the music library that you are sharing in order for the other machines to be able to view and access it. 10. Done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-stuff","category-networking","category-tips-and-tricks","category-wireless-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ianbrown.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}