If I delete a song off my personal computer iTunes while using Home Sharing will it delete that song off of anyone else's iTunes or just mine?

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Posted on Apr 12, 2015 2:19 PM

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Apr 15, 2015 2:21 PM in response to 24fantrue

Hi 24fantrue,

When you are using Home Sharing, you are streaming your music to the other devices that you've set up on your home network. Your music does not reside on any other device or computer unless someone copies a song to their device.

So, if you delete a song from your iTunes library, the other users in your household will no longer be able to play or copy the song. Does that make sense?

The resource below will explain how Home sharing works.

How to share music and video with iTunes - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201779


iTunes 12 for Mac: Use Home Sharing to import items from another iTunes library
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH19614?locale=en_US

Import items from other libraries using Home Sharing


  1. Click the Sharing button near the top left of the iTunes window, and choose a library from the pop-up menu.


  2. Click the button for the type of content you want to import (Music, for example) near the top left of the window.


  3. Click the Show pop-up menu at the bottom of the iTunes window and choose “Items not in my library.”

  4. Select the items you want to import, and click Import.


Hope that helps ...

- Judy

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