[Bulk] Re: OT: Common iTunes Library

[Jeffrey Lomicka]

What would happen if you aliased the iTunes folder to the one on the 
server, so that the INDEX is also shared.

I suspect that the last one to write it would win.  Perhaps 
protections can be arranged so that only one "master" user has write 
access, and that user be savvy enough to never log in on more than 
one machine at a time.

I may have to experiment with this, as it could solve a nasty disk 
space problem on my PowerBook.  I could have one copy of the music at 
work on the four terabyte disk array in my office, and another at 
home on the XTension server (it "only" has 40GB), and a third on the 
server at church, so everywhere I play music I would have it, but not 
have to carry it.

>t I do - works fine. Use the finder's "connect to server" option to 
>connect to the system with all the music, go into itunes preferences 
>and change where it thinks the music is store to be the itunes music 
>folder on that connected server. Then to get the music to appear in 
>your library, to itunes file menu and select add to library function 
>and point and the same directory where the music already is - it 
>will populate your library database and not actually have to move 
>the files at all since they are already where it thinks they belong. 
>Keep in mind that using this approach, if you add songs through one 
>computer, while they will be added to the servers music folder, they 
>will not show up in anyone else's library until they repeat the add 
>to library step.
>Bill