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Sharing my iTunes library - worked, but stopped

I have a mac M1 Max studio, Sequoia 15.3.1, with a 1TB iTunes Library I built over many years, on an external drive. My wife has a macbook and listens to my library when she is working in our home office. It worked fine for a number of years, until Mar 1st, 2025 - and now she can't see my library on the network. I don't see the SHARE button in iTunes. We do not subscribe to Apple Music.

How can I get this working again. I don't see a way to add her "device" to my account. It shows we have 4 devices authorized, but doesn't show what they are.

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Posted on Mar 4, 2025 8:26 AM

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turingtest2
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Mar 4, 2025 8:40 AM in response to thewebgal

If you're running Sequoia then you are using the Music app, not iTunes. Sharing is controlled from System Settings rather than the Music app, and works whether or not Music is running, as long as the computer is active. See Share songs from a shared media library in Music on Mac - Apple Support and the section Share your library with other computers. Note you don't want to use the Home Sharing option, as that would require your wife's computer to be signed into your Apple Account rather than her own.


Authorizations are not explicitly listed anywhere. See Authorization vs. association - Apple Community for some background there.

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