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How to import items from another iTunes library?

I have have home movies in my iTunes on my iMac which my wife wants to import into iTunes on her Macbook. Both macs have Home Sharing turned on. She has my library showing under Shared in her iTunes and she can see my entire library. She selects the item she wants to import but there is no way to import it. It cannot be dragged and there is no Show menu at the bottom of the iTunes window as iTunes Help says there should be.

She is using OSX 10.6.8 and I'm using 10.7.2. We both are using iTunes 10.5.

Please explain how to do this import.

iMac 22.5, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Safari 5.1 iPhoto 8.1.2 Time Capsu

Posted on Nov 16, 2011 12:57 PM

19 replies

Feb 12, 2012 7:13 AM in response to kathleenfromprovidence

After turning off iTunes sharing and when you go to turn it back on, MAKE sure you have both (or) all iTunes accounts for sharing logged in to the same Apple ID and password.

Feb 13, 2012 7:16 AM in response to kathleenfromprovidence

i have tried this, turned on home sharing on both computers, and I still only have the stack of CD's icon, no home sharing icon, what am i doing wrong?

kathy

Feb 16, 2012 8:57 AM in response to Kathy Nell

Kathy, definitely make sure that you are signed into iTunes on both computers with the same Apple ID. I thought I was, I was getting really frustrated because the Home icon was not showing up no matter what I did, and then I realized that my old computer was still using my old Apple ID log-in. I turned off Home Sharing on my old computer, turned it back on and logged in with my NEW Apple ID log-in, and the Home icon popped up instantly on both my old and new computers. Hope this helps!

Feb 16, 2012 11:47 AM in response to halofriendly

thanks I finally did get it, was missing the part about the same apple ID on both computers

kathy

How to import items from another iTunes library?