Storing iTunes Library on External HDD

[daveyw]

Hopefully someone can help.... I have a 500gb Drive attached to my Airport Extreme and my iMac and Macbook see it fine. I have used the method on the Apple website to transfer the actual music files to the drive and I have shared my library so I can play the music from both computers. If I turn off the iMac though I cannot play the music from the Macbook. I assume that this is because the iTunes library info is on the iMac.

Is there a way I can have this also on the external drive or something else I can do so that regardless of which computer is switched on, I can play my music library? I hope that makes sense!

Thanks
Dave

 

[mad jew]

If you turn off the iMac and open iTunes on the MacBook whilst holding OPTION, can you then select the library on the external drive and play the tracks?