I am trying to share a single library across my MBP and iMac. The difficulty here is that I want to access this library when not connected to the home network where a network share or device might normally live.
Scenario:
Finally to the question: How do we share an iTunes library that we both can listen to at any time and sync our phones against.
My solution (not working too well):
- mattb
Scenario:
- I have an iMac and a macbookpro (MBP). My wife uses the iMac and syncs her iPhone there. I use the MBP and sync my iPhone against the MBP. I usually sync my phone at the office (not on my home network).
- I listen to the iTunes library on the MBP at work.
- It is that listening to the iTunes library and syncing at work that prevents a simple network share of an iTunes library on the home network.
Finally to the question: How do we share an iTunes library that we both can listen to at any time and sync our phones against.
My solution (not working too well):
- I put all our music (25GB) on mobileMe in an iDisk and pointed iTunes at the iDisk on each mac. I setup the iDisk to sync a local copy of the iDisk on each mac.
- I am starting to see sync errors and worry that changes to the iTunes library may get lost if changes are made on both the iMac and MBP and then sync, as the sync utility must pick a version of the file, one version will get lost
- mattb