Music

When I had the iBook connected to the network at work, I copied the music files from iTunes on my work PC to the iBook and imported them into iTunes just fine. I had been using iTunes at work since I was using Windows 2000 there and only Windows98 and ME at home - iTunes only runs on Win2000 and XP. I had some purchased music and some from a few of my CDs. I just authorized the iTunes on my iBook and I'm good to go. I need to test if the iTunes "authorizations" are really per-computer or per-user. If they are per-user, then I'll need one for me and one for my wife's login as well as the one for work, which would only leave two more, and those would be me and my wife's logins on another computer. I still need to sort out how to do our music library at home. Ideally, each login would point to the same Tunes library in a shared location. The iBook could access this over the network, but it would then not have music files for when you had it away from home, so some kind of library sync would be in order. I've got a similar situation for iPhoto to solve.

Update (31 July 2004): The iTunes authorizations are indeed per computer as it is worded and not per user. So the other accounts on the same computer can play the purchased music from my library.

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