AppleTV + Homesharing + 2 iTunes Accounts?

Aaron Adams wrote:
Which means that iTS content I don't want, from someone else's computer, gets duplicated to mine, using my disk space and adding the extra step of copying from A to B.

you don't have to enable the feature. you can selectively transfer content from home shared libraries to yours.

J GG

Methinks, all these separate kinds of authorisations are at best confusing, at worst...

And that's the point I'm getting at. The fact that this thread exists shows that this whole home sharing thing is more complex than it needs to be. There was nothing wrong with the way libraries were shared with ATV1.

Alley_Cat wrote:
Methinks, all these separate kinds of authorisations are at best confusing, at worst...

maybe.

yet, it's good to know the options are there in case some one needs them ...

J GG

Let's face it, one of the reasons for a lot of confusion with ATV1 was the changing sync/stream model that to many just didn't make sense.

Home Sharing has the same problem.

Alley_Cat wrote:
Home Sharing has the same problem.

i humbly but forcefully disagree 😉

it is the lack of understanding of home sharing features that makes folks shy away from it.

my usual hunting grounds, of course, are the iTunes forums and i may be lucky that i have been able play around with three iTunes libraries since home sharing was introduced. i have tested home sharing intensively and once you get the hang of what it does, it's ... brilliant.

J GG

Max Stanley wrote:
Just because you got used to signing in and out of various accounts

again, it's only necessary once.

the only caveat is for apps. you will have to sign into the different accounts to update apps.

J GG

Max Stanley wrote:
How come i cant have my computer/itunes library/home sharing account and my mates computer/iTunes library(account)/home sharing show up together on the appletv home sharing

but you can - by way of cross-authorizing each others iTunes.

it's a matter of seconds, a few clicks, and you're both good to go.

J GG

i give up 😉

_*iTunes feedback*_

best of luck !

J GG

You don't have to do any signing in or out. Look at the home sharing email address as like a Master Account in your home that ONLY manages sharing. If you enable home sharing on someone else's computer by using your iTunes account, they still only have their own iTunes account attached to their computer. They can't purchase anything using your iTunes account or change your iTunes library or anything like that.

I admit it is kind of confusing. Maybe Apple should have required people to create an entirely new "home sharing" account so they wouldn't feel like they were putting their own account on someone else's computer. Regardless though, the result would be the same.

My wife has her own iTunes account under her own email address. I have my own iTunes account under my own email address. We used my iTunes account to enable Home Sharing between our computers and our new Apple TV. We both still use our own iTunes account on our computers. Just to clarify for those not paying attention, *she still uses her OWN iTunes account on her computer as if we never turned on Home Sharing.* Both of our iTunes libraries show up under "Computers" on the Apple TV. No signing in or out needs to be done at all. It all works exactly as you would think it should work.

Understood, but now the problem is that my login name and password exist on the machine of someone who shouldn't necessarily have it (presumably stored in the keychain), and that login name and password give that person access to my MobileMe mail and other services.

Except it DOESN'T. It does not give access to anything of yours. I thought I explained that already? I don't think it is stored in the Keychain either but someone would have to confirm that.