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Can an iPod be loaded with songs from a shared library? - macphanatic - 11-09-2008
I got my wife an iPod touch. She like to manage it using her work laptop (which has iTunes installed). I have a 90gig plus library on my Mac Pro. Library consists almost entirely of music that I've ripped from our cd's. Can she load her iPod using her computer and this library? If so, how? The main goal is to minimize the loading of music on her laptop hard drive.
If I can get this to work, I've got some iPhone/Touch apps she'd like to load as well.
Re: Can an iPod be loaded with songs from a shared library? - raz - 11-09-2008
you could make the folders that contains your music 'shared', and she could mount that drive when she wants to sync.
but, the lat time i tried to load from shared playlists, i couldn't
Re: Can an iPod be loaded with songs from a shared library? - kj4btkljv - 11-09-2008
Nope. That's part of Apple's anti-copy mechanism.
If you want to share music, the best ways that I have found to do it is through the Shared folder on your Mac in the Users folder. This would have to work though if she was a user on that same machine, not another machine.
The other is to make your iTunes music folder available as a shared folder on your network. She mounts this folder on her Mac's desktop, then sets iTunes to NOT copy files to her music folder when adding them to iTunes. However, your machine needs to always be available when she wants to sync her iPod, or listen to the music.
I've found the easiest way to do this is to just copy the files over to the second machine. But, you don't want to take up all that space on her hard drive. You're kind of stuck...
Jeff