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Can my husband download music onto his PC from our Home sharing that I have set up on my Mac? If I turn off my computer he is unable to access the home sharing library. He would like to access the music in our home sharing library when my computer is not on. Hope this makes sense.
MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.15
For Home Sharing to work the computer that holds the shared library, must be turned on. Otherwise, there's no way to access the shared Library.
However, yes, he can download items from a home shared library and import them into his own library. In which case those items no longer need to be accessed through home sharing but can instead be accessed directly in the recipient library without requiring the other computer be turned on.
See here: Import media using Home Sharing in iTunes on PC - Apple Support
For Home Sharing to work the computer that holds the shared library, must be turned on. Otherwise, there's no way to access the shared Library.
However, yes, he can download items from a home shared library and import them into his own library. In which case those items no longer need to be accessed through home sharing but can instead be accessed directly in the recipient library without requiring the other computer be turned on.
See here: Import media using Home Sharing in iTunes on PC - Apple Support
The steps are in the link provded above. Here it is again: Import media using Home Sharing in iTunes on PC - Apple Support
on your PC, choose a shared library from the pop-up menu at the top left.You should also be able to right click on an item and then on Import on the context menu.
Family Sharing and Home Sharing are different services. See If you don't see your family's shared content - Apple Support for more on Family Sharing issues. Thinking about it the reason you may not have seen the import options might be that you are using simple network sharing rather than Home Sharing, where both computers would need to have been signed into the same Apple ID.
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Thanks for the info but all of this is old information for the way Apple has it set up now. It took us a few hours but found it in the apple account then in the drop down to choose the family member you can see the purchases and import them. You choose one and view the music however you choose by artist or album etc. Then right click on the download cloud icon.
Thanks everyone for the info but the directions are outdated.
Sounds like you were trying to share Apple Music subscription music, and not purchases.
Songs and albums from the subscription service are not shareable over Home Sharing, you need Family Sharing and a Family Plan to the Apple Music subscription service for that and its access the way you describe.
2 different things, for 2 different purposes.
He has no "Show pop up menu at the bottom of the iTunes menu" When we try to right click on an album - there is no option to import.
Thanks! So how do we do it? We went through everything in iTunes on his computer and can not find how. I also have googled it and nothing.
Make sure the computer is authorized for your Apple ID as well as being signed into it. I get Import and Add to Playlist > at the top of the pop menu you've shown.
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iTunes home sharing
