1. Your windows box or server share your itunes libary.
2. Map that as a drive letter to anything running itunes as the same letter “I” lets say.
3. Change the libary path in Itunes on all systems to the map drive.
4. Make a second share, Call ItunesDB (database)on the server
5. Make a folder in that share for every PC, there names
6. Copy the Itunes database to the PC folder you make all the changes to normaly. The one you like add art work on…
7. Remap you my document to the 2nd share, right click on it will get your there. You can map that second share or just use a UNC path, got to be to that workstations folder name.

Still with me?? The XML file will lock if more the one computer uses it…

8. You need to copy the server database to every folder, the use a replication program like “http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp” do make the cops after that. You run it on the server.

The kicker, I run a full AD at home so forgot it a workstation not on the domain can remap the my document folder.

I’m not a Mac guy but maybe it will give someone a idea that know more them me..

I have two laptops, and an external hard drive. I’ve done all the hard work, manually sorting my mp3’s etc into a folder on the external drive that’s being monitored by iTunes Library Updater (H:\Music\Artists), so if I change a song’s filename, location, or even (eventually) bad tags, iTunes won’t get upset and exclaim that everything’s missing.

The only problem is using the library on my other laptop. I’m trying to (shift+) open the library on the hard drive, but none of the music’s found (exclamation marks everywhere).

After reading this, I thought the only thing I haven’t done is the last step on the second computer: going to advanced settings and specifying the location of the iTunes folder, but this is already set to the “correct location” (L:\Music\iTunes\Libraries\Main\iTunes Music.

The only thing I can think is either (more likely) it’ due to the hard drive being assigned different letters by the two laptops (H: and L:), but every post I’ve read says this shouldn’t be an issue…

It could also be that the second laptop has an older version of iTunes? Will try and manually assign a universal drive letter to the drive (any ideas?!) and get the latest version of iTunes on both, but has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?

iTunes Library Updater saved me checking into a mental institution!

Thanks in advance, Jonny

Thank you for your reply. It does not appear that this will be as easy as I thought between different OS’es due to reference of audio files using absolute paths.
Since a path to my shared drive is different on Mac OS X from Win, opening the iTunes library on each causes iTunes to update the XML and ITL files with the OS-specific path.

Having said that,
I am still going to set this up on my Mac machines as this works flawlessly within same OS.

Thank you much for this post.