How do I share music between user accounts on the same computer?

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How do I share music between user accounts on the same computer?

My wife and I have separate user accounts on the same MacBook Pro so that we can both sync our phones to this computer. My account is the primary user account, and my iTunes library is stored in this account. My wife would like to put music on her iPhone so she can run, but I can't seem to access the music library thru her account. I know the files are all on the hard drive regardless, so I just need to know how I can make iTunes on my wife's account access the library that's there. I've tried the steps I could find on Apple's website, but I can't seem to make it work. I'm running the latest versions of everything - even tho the post says I'm running 10.9.1, I'm actually running 10.9.4

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), iTunes 11.1.3

Posted on Sep 1, 2014 8:58 AM

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Linc Davis

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Sep 1, 2014 10:37 AM in response to tolwyn

To give other users read-only access to your iTunes library, use the Sharing features of iTunes. Sharing works over the local network as well as on the same computer. See the built-in help for details.

If you want to give full read/write access to more than one user, see the support article linked below.

iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer

There is a way to share the library without moving it to a secondary volume. If you really need to do that, ask for instructions.

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