Share iTunes music over the internet in 3 easy steps

posted on May 15th, 2006


A few hours ago I was searching for a way to share my music itunes library with some friends. After trying some different options I think I found the best one. Hamachi allows you to share your iTunes library with a few mouse clicks (and only with people you know so it won’t destroy your bandwidth).

The requirements:

- iTunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/)
- Hamachi (http://www.hamachi.cc/)

Preperation:

1. Install and open Hamachi.

2. After following the brief on screen tutorial and create a new network by clicking on the bottom-middle button.

The guide:

1. Open iTunes and Click Edit>Preferences>Sharing.

2. Click the ‘Share my music’ checkbox.

3. Now give the name of your network along with the passowrd to someone you know, let him join your network and start iTunes. If he or she also follows the previous two steps (not the netwrk creation) you will also be able to listen to his/her music!

Troubleshooting

Q: I cannot see any shared music?
A: Two solutions:
1. restart iTunes (simple, isn’t it?)
2. In iTunes click Edit>Preferences>Sharing and click the ‘Look for shared music’ checkbox

    CLICK HERE TO READ PART 2!!!
    Disclaimer

    Of course you need to respect copyright. I think you know that it is illegal to share songs that contain a copyright. Use this guide only to share your homemade music.

    16 comments:

    1. [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News said on May 16th, 2006 at 7:09 pm :

      Hamachi works great, but I was always too paranoid about security to install it on my PC, but apparently, it supports some of the best security algorythm out there.. I’ll try it out, just to satisfy my curiosity.

      Kiltak

    2. hamachifan said on May 17th, 2006 at 1:43 am :

      For anyone that would like to learn more about Hamachi, check out: www.grc.com/securitynow.htm and scroll down to episode 18. It is a security related podcast by Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte and they love Hamachi. No affiliation with either GRC or Hamachi, just a big fan now.

    3. Josh said on May 17th, 2006 at 5:20 am :

      Anybody know a working program that’ll let you download music from these shares?

    4. Robert said on May 17th, 2006 at 9:28 am :

      Google search MyTunes Josh

    5. Kristian said on May 17th, 2006 at 10:20 am :

    6. Jonathon Fung said on May 18th, 2006 at 12:03 am :

      Your Browser Error for Internet Explorer is pretty funny. However you misspelled “beleive”. It would be cool if you fixed that. Thanks!

    7. Leowys said on May 18th, 2006 at 1:08 am :

      It doesn’t work for me. Maybe i have to open an specific port in my linksys router? Please help.
      Thanks.

    8. timelf said on May 22nd, 2006 at 4:09 am :

      been around for a while now, LAN gaming is also possible with this

    9. PJ said on May 23rd, 2006 at 1:16 am :

      Anyone have any suggestions for streaming from a Mac to another Mac over the internet?

    10. keith fletcher said on June 6th, 2006 at 4:59 am :

      Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!

    11. Angela said on September 21st, 2006 at 4:54 am :

      I’m new to this whole Hamachi thing, but I got as far as sharing libraries. My mom wants to be able to listen the music I’ve got on my computer on her laptop, and I’ve set it up so that she’s sharing my library, but when she clicks on a song, it won’t play. Any ideas?

      (Her laptop is kind of old and slow, but the songs are at least showing up, so it should play them.)

    12. guccie said on November 19th, 2006 at 3:15 pm :

      how about when you don’t have the music files in your desktop, how can i share my music from the iPod?

    13. Jameson said on November 28th, 2006 at 8:26 pm :

      I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skipping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If someone could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appreciate it because its driving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.

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