No iTunes Network Sharing with Prev Version!

Calvinatir

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 28, 2004

• #1

Arg! Im on my school network and I used to be able to access THOUSANDS of songs on peoples libraries, but now i only see the select few that have upgraded to 4.5...Hopefully the rest will upgrade soon...thats kinda weak

 

grapes911

Moderator emeritu

• Apr 28, 2004

• #2

I feel the same way. It sucks.

 

Calvinatir

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 28, 2004

• #3

and i really dont think the students at my school will be wildly updating their itunes to 4.5 either...long..slow process 🙁

 

Le Big Mac

macrumors 68030

• Apr 28, 2004

• #4

Calvinatir said:

and i really dont think the students at my school will be wildly updating their itunes to 4.5 either...long..slow process 🙁

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Can't you keep the previous version around as well, for this purpose?

 

baby duck monge

macrumors 68000

• Apr 28, 2004

• #5

this has happened with every new version of itunes since sharing was introduced. kinda apple's way of dragging you along for the ride. keep an older copy around for a while to connect to other users. and if you're lucky, maybe someone will put up a local download site so it will be faster for everyone to upgrade (that's what always happens here - our campus rep is on top of his game)

 

Doctor Q

Administrator

Staff member

• Apr 28, 2004

• #6

Apple's iTunes on Campus program might help spread the new version a little faster.

 

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nesbitt_a

macrumors 6502

• Apr 29, 2004

• #7

I found this too. Quite annoying, but I can live with it!

Just gotta wait for people to update their iTunes.

 

grapes911

Moderator emeritu

• Apr 29, 2004

• #8

baby duck monge said:

this has happened with every new version of itunes since sharing was introduced. kinda apple's way of dragging you along for the ride. keep an older copy around for a while to connect to other users. and if you're lucky, maybe someone will put up a local download site so it will be faster for everyone to upgrade (that's what always happens here - our campus rep is on top of his game)

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How do you keep an older copy? The new version just overwrote the older one.

 

Sabbath

macrumors 6502a

• Apr 29, 2004

• #9

You can try changing the name of your shared library to "update your iTunes" or something similar. However if there's 1000's of users people may not notice unless you can get a co-ordinated effort together.

 

baby duck monge

macrumors 68000

• Apr 29, 2004

• #10

grapes911 said:

How do you keep an older copy? The new version just overwrote the older one.

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ah. i have my folders organized a bit differently. my itunes lives in a "media" folder within the "applications" folder. and i also keep a backup copy on an external.

 

Koodauw

macrumors 68040

• Apr 29, 2004

• #11

Sabbath said:

You can try changing the name of your shared library to "update your iTunes" or something similar. However if there's 1000's of users people may not notice unless you can get a co-ordinated effort together.

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But if the other people are not using the latest version of iTunes, they won't be able to see his library name, Right?

 

rueyeet

macrumors 65816

• Apr 29, 2004

• #12

baby duck monge said:

this has happened with every new version of itunes since sharing was introduced.

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Yeah, I noticed that sharing didn't work between my iBook (running Panther and a newer version) and my TiBook (running Jaguar and an older version).

That will end tonight when I upgrade them both. 🙂