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Q: Having trouble sharing my music with my 11-year old (on his new iPod)

I have:

--Created a new user (my son), on my iMac, for which I am the administrator.

--Enabled family sharing.

--Gotten his iPod up and running using his new iCloud identity.

 

The problem:

I can access my music library in iTunes, from within his user account, on the iMac. (I toggle between "This computer" and "[My name's] Library" .) But when I toggle over to my library, the icons for his iPod (and the subcategories music, movies, etc.) disappear. So there seems to be no way to get any music onto his iPod.

 

I thought I'd be able to drag and drop items from my library into his iPod, or create playlists that he could sync. What am I doing wrong?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), mid-2011 i5

Posted on Dec 30, 2015 5:56 PM