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Has anyone figured out a way to copy over playlists using the new home sharing feature in iTunes? It's looking to me that it isn't supported (like with music and movie files) but I'd be glad to hear otherwise. I have a ton of playlists....
Thanks for the suggestion but I'm talking abt. the new iTunes 9 feature to "copy" music over to your itunes. I know how to share. iTunes 9 lets you drag and drop movies and music into your own library and makes an actual copy of each. I still see no way to do this with playlists.
I was able to turn on my home sharing and add my roommate computer as well but as soon as I finished that, the Shared tab completely disappeared on both of our computers.
Sharing is enabled on them to, and also look for shared as well.
This worked for me and I see the shared libraries now on the other computer. The MAC menu steps:
Itunes
Preferences
Sharing
Look for Shared Libraries
Share my Library
How does using old old form of sharing help? You still can't drag the playlists from the remote machine to your machine. And if you select a playlist on the remote machine and drag the files to a playlist, Home Sharing starts to copy all the files! The "File->New Playlist from selection" option is greyed out when you select files on the remote machine.
I want this as well. I had bought Tunes Ranger before iTunes 9 to copy/sync my Library and it did not do it as well as Home Share does. But I want my Playlists copied as well.
Alright so I was wondering the same thing as everyone else in this forum... I don't think it is possible to just drag and drop the playlist... but I found a relatively easy way to accomplish the same thing.
First make sure that you have shared all the music that you want in that playlist to the computer that previously did not have that music.
Next (on the original computer) while in the playlist you would like to share go to file, library, export playlist.
Then either save this .txt file to either an idisk, flash drive, shared folder, or however so that then you can move it onto the computer that you would like the playlist on.
Once the .txt file is on the new computer simply go to file, library, import playlist.
If all of the songs are in your library then they should be put into that playlist.
I know this is cumbersom but it was the best way I could find. Let me know if there is a better way by all means.
That should work for most people although doing it one by one is a slow process. I think I'm stuck because I managed my music directory myself on my windows box. If you look at the playlist export file, it has hardcoded C: drive paths in there. I don't think it'll upload into my Macbook Pro where the directories are managed by ITunes (default when you copy with home sharing) because of the paths.
I think the functionality would be 100% more useful if you could do the following:
1) turn on home sharing on a computer with a nice library (remote).
2) go to another computer with a different library (local).
3) create playlists on the local computer using songs located on the remote computer WITHOUT copying physical files over - so the playlist is just "pointers" to the files sitting on the remote computer.
4) use those local "pointer" playlists on local machine just like any other playlist - listen, sync to ipod, etc.
I don't want to make duplicates of my files all over my house (and some older/smaller computers simply don't have the HD space to do this), but I would like my kids to be able to create playlists of songs on other computers, sync to their ipods, etc.
The copying is good if you have to take the computer off the network. Like a notebook you carry around with you. I like this feature but wish they would have completed it by allowing the playlists to copy. Using something like Supersync to do this does not work as well as Apple's in house solution.
