If you have two or more computers on a local network, users can share their music collections without copying any songs from one computer to another. iTunes can stream music files over a local area network (LAN) to a computer that has set iTunes Preferences to look for shared music. Streaming files play from one computer to another without being copied to it. Set one (or more) of your computers to share its entire iTunes Library or selected playlists:
iTunes automatically finds shared music on the local network and puts it in the Source pane, as shown here. Click one of the shared playlists to display its songs, or click the shared Library icon ("White iBook" in this example) to see the contents of all the shared playlists. |