Refreshing iTunes Shared Library

Are you quitting iTunes and restarting it on computer B?
At that time, computer B should reread the updated library info from computer A.

How are you "sharing"? Are you using the iTunes Sharing feature? Or do you just have both copies of iTunes pointed to the same library location on a shared drive?

If the latter, iTunes does not at present have any feature for watching folders and automatically importing tracks you add to a folder. So using strictly iTunes, you'll have to add any such tracks manually, by dragging them to the iTunes window or by using the Add To Library command. Here are a couple of potential solutions from other developers, though:

http://albumbrowser.klarita.net/iTunesFolderWatch.html

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/itunes/hack-attack-automatically-sync-itunes- to-any-folders-175161.php

(Thanks to Meg and Hudgie for the tips.)

Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

How many tracks in the shared library?

Well, that shouldn't be the problem, then. I thought perhaps if you had a great many tracks, that might be the source of the slow performance. But not with only a couple of thousand tracks. With that few, any new imports should appear in a shared library/playlist virtually instantly.

How are your computers networked? And are they all running the same version of iTunes?

What I meant was the network type; Ethernet, wireless, and what speeds. It shouldn't make a difference, but it might provide someone here some clues as to what might be happening.

Just some thoughts to try: if you're sharing the entire library, try setting up a playlist and share only that and see if the refresh is faster when you make a change to the playlist. And of course turning off sharing and then back on (if you haven't already tried that). Don't know if any of that will help, but it's worth trying.