Sep 19, 2017 You only have to copy the iTunes library to that folder. In order to access there, open a Finder window, select the Go menu - Go to Folder, and type: /Users/Shared. After doing this, open iTunes while holding down the Alt key, and point iTunes to the library saved in that folder. To do this, open iTunes click 'File - Home Sharing - Turn on Home Sharing.' This is going to result in a login screen, which will ask you for your Apple ID and password. Give it a little time and once finished, you'll get the following message.
Q: My wife and I each have an iPhone 3G. We have separate user accounts on the same Windows XP computer. This makes it possible to sync contacts separately and this is working fine. We want to share the same iTunes media. As the original user, I have put my iTunes media folder in D:ChuckiTunes. When my wife logs in, launches iTunes and uses Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced to set the media location for iTunes, in the iTunes Media browser (ex: Music) the music does not show up. Can you help by telling me what I'm doing wrong. I thought that simply setting the Media location to the same folder would make the same music available to both iPhones.
– Chuck
A: When you are using two separate user accounts on your computer, each account gets its own iTunes library database by default. This database is where the list of files in your iTunes library is stored, along with other metadata about them such as ratings, playlists, play counts, and so forth. Your actual music files can be stored anywhere, but unless they've been specifically imported into your iTunes library database, they will not appear in iTunes itself. Therefore, in this case setting the iTunes Music Folder on your wife's account to be the same location as your music doesn't bring any of that music into her database unless she specifically imports it into iTunes.
There are two options for how you can deal with this, depending upon how much of your library data you want to share between both accounts. If you want to continue maintaining separate playlists, ratings and play counts, then you will want to maintain two separate library databases and just store the actual media files in a common location. In this case, after changing the iTunes Music Folder path in the Advanced preferences, as you've described above, your wife can use the File, Add to Library option in iTunes and choose the iTunes Media folder to import all of the files from that location into her own iTunes library database.
Alternatively, if you want to share the same playlists and other library data, you can easily transfer your iTunes library database to a common location on your hard drive, and then point iTunes under each user account to use the library database in that location. You can tell iTunes to create a new library database or choose one from another location simply by holding down the SHIFT key (Windows) or OPT key (Mac) while starting iTunes. This will present a dialog box giving you the opportunity to either create a new, empty library database or to choose a library database that is stored somewhere else on your computer.
More information on managing and transferring your iTunes library can be found in our article on Transferring your iTunes Library.
Part 1. Transfer iTunes Movies to Other Accounts by iTunes Family Sharing
iTunes Family Sharing allows to share iTunes library files like movies, music, iBooks, audiobooks. You can share to 6 members with different iTunes accounts in your family and help you manage your kid's purchases.
Set Up iTunes Family Sharing
You can only be a part of one family at a time. To get started, you can create a family group. You can do that on an IOS device with IOS 8 and later, or Mac with Yosemite and later. Here I will take a Mac Computer for example:
choose 'Apple' top menu > Click 'System Preferences' > Click 'iCloud' > Press 'Set Up Family'
And you can follow the onscreen instruction to initialize a family group as the family organizer. Then you can invite people to join your family:
You can click 'Apple' top menu > Select 'Preferences' > Click 'iCloud' > Click 'Manage Family'
How To Share Itunes Library On Mac Between Users 2017
After that, you can click the '+' icon to follow the screen wizard to invite people to join your family by email. The recipients can input the Apple ID and password on a device to confirm to join the family and share iTunes contents.
Start Sharing to Other Apple ID
When the Family Sharing is set up, all the people in the same family can access to each other's shared media files.
Share Itunes Music Between Accounts
To access the Media files like movies from your family on Mac, you can open iTunes > Click 'iTunes Store' > Navigate to 'Purchased' tab
Share Songs On Itunes
You will see a small downward triangle button besides the 'Purchased' menu, please click it to choose an account from your family. You will see the items under the account and choose the movie files you want to download.
