jenniferp417
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Q: Home Sharing - No Import Button?

I have three computers in my home, three different itunes accounts. All authorized with each other. I can view and play songs from other libraries, but there's no import button on any of them, as I understand there should be.

All computers have Itunes 9. Two are XP machines, one is Leopard.

What am I doing wrong?

Imac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM

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Q: Home Sharing - No Import Button?

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  • by BillF,

    BillF BillF Sep 9, 2009 6:17 PM in response to jenniferp417
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    Sep 9, 2009 6:17 PM in response to jenniferp417
    I just used drag and drop and it seemed to work just fine.

  • by jenniferp417,

    jenniferp417 jenniferp417 Sep 9, 2009 6:19 PM in response to BillF
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    Sep 9, 2009 6:19 PM in response to BillF
    That does nothing either.

    I know this has to be something simple, but I'm stumped.

  • by Lauren L.,

    Lauren L. Lauren L. Sep 9, 2009 6:43 PM in response to jenniferp417
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    Sep 9, 2009 6:43 PM in response to jenniferp417
    Did you set up the home share using the same ID on all of them? I learned that earlier today, even though they are all authorized, you have to use the same account on each one to setup the Home Share. It won't change your buying methods, just sets up the share.

  • by jenniferp417,

    jenniferp417 jenniferp417 Sep 9, 2009 6:46 PM in response to jenniferp417
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    Sep 9, 2009 6:46 PM in response to jenniferp417
    That is exactly it.

    For anyone else reading this - I just went in to the advanced menu and turned off home sharing. Then I went back in and turned it back on - I chose the user/pass of another one of my computers, then clicked into that library - and the buttons I needed were immediately there.

    I knew it'd be easy, if I knew what to do. Thanks so much!

  • by richard grant,

    richard grant richard grant Sep 12, 2009 7:46 AM in response to jenniferp417
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    Sep 12, 2009 7:46 AM in response to jenniferp417
    I'm having the same problem. But both of my computers are logged into the same iTunes account, both are Macs, both have been updated to iTunes 9. One is running OSX 10.5 and the other 10.4. Current versions of Quicktime, etc.

    Drag-and-drop doesn't work either.

    Any ideas? Thanks!

  • by northerndancer64,

    northerndancer64 northerndancer64 Dec 12, 2009 1:16 PM in response to richard grant
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    Dec 12, 2009 1:16 PM in response to richard grant
    Same issue.

    Advanced/Disable home sharing

    on each computer

    Advanced/Enable home sharing

    on each computer

    and it will eventually set up properly.

  • by jpmoriarty,

    jpmoriarty jpmoriarty Feb 23, 2010 2:33 PM in response to northerndancer64
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    Feb 23, 2010 2:33 PM in response to northerndancer64
    My home sharing network drive (the hopeless western digital my book world edition "piece of junk") is sharing the music fine, but I can't copy music from that drive to any other computers through iTunes (and consequently can't add them to ipods etc even though it's not apple songs).

    I don't think I can set an itunes account on the my book itunes server (which I think is Twonky - yet another piece of junk) - so can I do the import / copy thing or do I have to do it through copying the files through windows explorer?

    basically the import button doesn't show up, and attempts to drag and drop files fail miserably.

  • by mdpatsfan,

    mdpatsfan mdpatsfan Jan 6, 2011 9:03 AM in response to jenniferp417
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    Jan 6, 2011 9:03 AM in response to jenniferp417
    Lauren, your the woman. A year and your post helped me out. Many thank you!

  • by Nicque,

    Nicque Nicque Dec 25, 2011 1:57 PM in response to northerndancer64
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    Dec 25, 2011 1:57 PM in response to northerndancer64

    Turning homesharing off and then on (in Advanced) eventually worked for me (I couldn't get it to work for a couple of hours).  It finally did the trick, though!

  • by texn,

    texn texn Dec 28, 2011 11:14 AM in response to Lauren L.
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    Dec 28, 2011 11:14 AM in response to Lauren L.

    Thanks so much for that EASY answer. I have looked all over for the answer to why I couldn't import songs from a shared library (including no import button) and here is the answer. I see I'm not the only one thanking you for this!!! THANKS!!!!

  • by yeseniafromastoria,

    yeseniafromastoria yeseniafromastoria Dec 31, 2011 11:41 AM in response to Lauren L.
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    Dec 31, 2011 11:41 AM in response to Lauren L.

    Thank YOU!!!! I had the same problem and the button is now there.  Thanks so much.  For all of you out there on Windows 7 PC's this will work for you.

  • by 4345,

    4345 4345 Dec 22, 2012 12:00 PM in response to jenniferp417
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    Dec 22, 2012 12:00 PM in response to jenniferp417

    very nice, thanks

  • by DustinV2013,

    DustinV2013 DustinV2013 Aug 27, 2013 11:20 AM in response to jenniferp417
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    Aug 27, 2013 11:20 AM in response to jenniferp417

    Toggling home sharing off and on resolved the issue with Home Sharing between Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines. The "Import" button did not appear initially but after turning home sharing on and off a few times it finally appeared in the bottom right.

  • by Finder alum,

    Finder alum Finder alum Nov 14, 2014 11:03 AM in response to jenniferp417
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    Nov 14, 2014 11:03 AM in response to jenniferp417

    I had this, also, but your trick didn't work for me, so I'm posting for anyone else reading this thread. To solve the problem, I had to go to iTunes Preferences->Sharing->Share my library on my local network (on all computers), and switch that off. Then I turned Home Sharing back on everywhere and it started working.

     

    (Make sure you give the same iTunes account on all computers when turning on Home Sharing.)

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