Create and share your playlists in iTunes

July 26th, 2007 by Mike King

Are you the type of person that enjoys sharing your most recent musical finds with your friends and co-workers? iTunes makes it easy to create and share your favourite tunes with anyone who's using the same local network as you. Here's a quick tutorial on setting up and sharing a playlist in iTunes.

Step One
Open iTunes. Select New Playlist under the FILE tab.

Share playlists

Step Two
Create a name for your new playlist. Add songs to it by holding down the SHIFT key, clicking on the songs you want to add, and dragging these songs to your new playlist.

Share playlists

Step Three
Select PREFERENCES under the iTunes tab.

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Step Four
Click on the Sharing icon and create a name for your Shared Library. Then click on the box next to 'Share my library on my local network.'

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Step Five
Click 'Share Selected Playlist', and click on the box next to the playlist you have created. Click OK and you're done. Now your playlist is available to other iTunes users on your network!

Share playlists

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5 Responses to “Create and share your playlists in iTunes”

Adam
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:43pm

I am on a Windows network and I've tried everything to get this working. It's a wireless network between a desktop computer running Windows XP and a laptop running Windows XP. Neither computers have firewalls except for the default Windows XP Firewall program. Maybe I should disable that. Argh! I am going to buy an iMac when Leopard comes out though.

admin
August 24th, 2007 at 3:26pm

Maybe see what programs the default XP Firewall might be blocking? By memory you can see what is being blocked and unblock individual applications.

ADALI
March 7th, 2009 at 11:29am

COOL AND GOOD

Royce Johnson
February 12th, 2011 at 1:13pm

See waht they did with iTunes? Crappy software that is so easy to use you have to buy their overpriced computers to be able to keep using it. As for me, this 'fix' fails utterly on a simple multi-user Windows machine. Totally worthless. Get Win7 and MediaPlayer.

TunesReflex
July 26th, 2011 at 8:36pm

I am using tunesreflex to share desktop itunes to mobile.

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