Itunes 10 Homesharing Can't Drag and Drop between computers!

This feature is only available for the Mac (I believe).

This was perfect, thanks! It appears that 'home sharing' and the airplay option can't be on at the sames time in version 10.2.2? Seems like it might be a bug.

I was having the same issue and followed 19GeoReo56's advice and it worked. Cheers!

I just solved this problem in the most ridiculous way. I had the same problem many of you are mentioning. I wanted to access my brother's iTunes library to Home Share our music. When I started the process I activated both computers to share with each other. His library appeared in my iTunes and vice versa, but I could only listen to the music, not drag and drop. When I opened the Advanced bar and looked down at the Disable Home Share option, it had my brother's iTunes account name in parenthesis, Disable Home Share (brothershareaccount1032@whatever.com). I clicked it to disable and re-enable like some of you said, but this time it prompted me to enable Home Sharing with MY OWN account. I enabled home sharing with my account, now changing the Disable Home Share option to read (myaccount@whatever.com). I expected his library to disappear, but it didn't, and I could click and drag his content into my library. Hope this helps somehow. Don't know why it worked.

Thank you. In retrospect it is such an easy solution but I did not think of it.

Works great!!!

hi al

first post in this forum because Home Sharing just started to mess around with my head. i read and tried all that was nicely detailed on this thread, but no avail

1) i tried authorizing/deauthorizing, signing in/out of home sharing.

2) i can see the other computer (macbookair) from my win7 PC, and vice versa

3) i can play music with the SHARED list on the left.

playing music is fine, but whenever i try to drag a file it says it's not a member of homesharing, and drops this relationship link immediately ! why does it do that! (i have to sign into home sharing again, try again and same result)

would someone please help> it used to work, but now not anymore!

IT WORKS NOW !!! thanks! Sometimes the most ridiculous things solve problems. In my case what I brought upon myself was switch email carriers and never updated my HOME SHARE INFO. In any event your thread reminded me to update my home share information. KUDOS !!!

Hi, all.

I had the problem with the Import button missing, and finally figured it out.
There are two different methods of sharing an iTunes library:

a) Home Sharing (Advanced => Turn On Home Sharing). This method allows you to Import.
b) Old-style Sharing (Edit => Preferences => Sharing => Share my library on my local network). This method does not allow you to Import.

If you have both Home Sharing and Old-style Sharing active, you won't be able to Import.
If you want to Import music from one computer to another, use only Home Sharing.

1) Turn Off Home Sharing (Advanced => Turn Off Home Sharing) on all computers.

2) Turn off (uncheck) Old-style Sharing (Edit => Preferences => Sharing => Share my library on my local network) on all computers.

3) Turn On Home Sharing (Advanced => Turn On Home Sharing) on all computers. Use the same Apple ID when you turn on Home Sharing.

4) ***DO NOT*** turn on Old-style Sharing on any computer.

5) Go to the computer where you want to import songs.

6) Go into the Home Sharing area (left-hand side: SHARED => Home Sharing => your shared library => Music).

7) Select the music you want to copy (or Edit => Select All).

8) Click: Import (bottom, right-hand corner of screen).

We just spent an hour on this... and it's so simple. I'm guessing by now you have authorized each computer? Well, turn home sharing off on every computer. Go back and turn home sharing ON, but they ALL have to be signed in with the same itunes account. EXAMPLE: Our family wanted to share/copy/ click/ drag songs that we purchased between Mom, Dad, & Son. So on Mom's computer, I clicked "turn home share on" and signed in with mom@itunesaccount.com. Then walked to Dad's computer and clicked "turn home share on" and signed in with mom@itunesaccount.com. Then went to son's computer, clicked on "turn home share on" and signed in with mom@itunesaccount.com. We all still have our original itunes accounts opened with access to all three accounts. WHEW! took us long enough. No need to remove firewalls or other stuff like that. Good luck!

Grand42, you are MY HERO. No, seriously. I've been losing sleep (I know, sad, but I couldn't give up) because I was so darn determined to do what should be working. I think the magical and missing step was to uncheck "Share my library on my local network" just as you critically pointed out, because after I did that, PRESTO!, I was able to select all and drag to my new library. (I followed your other steps exactly, too.) Thanks to you, I can still get a couple of hours in before I have to get ready for work. You're the best!!! 😀 Now I don't need to wait the 45 minutes to speak with Apple tech support, I don't need an appointment at the Genius Bar and I can get some sleep. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

I have turned my sharing off and rebooted, all the suggestions here, but have never seen the Settings or Import buttons at the bottom, nor can I drag songs from shared computers into my Library. Very frustrated, trying all of the tutorials and trouble-shooting suggestions.

Update: Now get the Settings & Import buttons with one shared computer but not the other, older one (a PowerPC G4 tower), and naturally the latter is the one I wish to pull all of the songs from so we can move it out. Any ideas?