Sharing your iTunes Library and Database files
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007This post has nothing to do with recording, but I figure if any readers are like me, they have large iTunes libraries that they want to share between computers on a home network. Yes you can just use iTunes built in sharing, but that requires iTunes to be running on both computers, and your actual library and associated files are still located on one computer. In my situation, I have my music files on my home server (which is running Fedora Linux), a macbook, and an iMac. I wanted my macbook and iMac to share the same iTunes library. I listen to most music from my macbook, but use my iMac to update my iPod. Confused yet? Yeah me too! (more…)