Saturday, September 26, 2009

Home Sharing

From the "where the eff were you when I was in college?" files, iTunes newest update 9.0 brought us something called Home Sharing. With Home Sharing, up to 5 computers on the same network can share their iTunes music libraries with one another. This means all you need to do is click and drag someone else's music into your own library and it's now on your drive ready to be copied to an iPod or just listened to at your leisure.

There are some hitches, of course. Something called "copyright law?" doesn't want you sharing music with other people who aren't you, so you need to "authorize" iTunes with the same user name and password on each device to be able to share freely. But with some creativity and trust this can be just a small hurdle.

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