Allowing Others in the Mathbio Group to Listen to Your iTunes Music Library

If you enable iTunes music sharing, you will be able to listen to other mathbio group members' shared iTunes libraries as well as let them listen to yours.

You can't steal other peoples music using this. If you're a music pirate go back to your Napster/Morpheus/iSwipe/Grokster/Limewire thievery of Britney Spears b-sides.

These instructions are for Mac OS X 10.3 and iTunes 5, but similar steps should work for other OS's and iTunes versions. To make this work you'll probably need to be on the Mathbio WIRED network, NOT the Utah WIRELESS network.

Step 1

With iTunes open and active, choose the "iTunes" menu and select "Preferences".

Step 2

Choose the "Sharing" preference pane.

Check "Look for shared music" and "Share my music".

Choose the playlists that you want to share. You may want to be selective. No one wants to listen to your Wang Chung remixes.

Step 3

Give your shared music an identity that will let others find you on the network. Don't use "Jon Forde's Pretty Pony Tea Party Tunes". It's already taken.

Set a password if you're a music bully.

Step 4

The Mac OS has a built in firewall that blocks all but a few ports. You'll need to open up the correct port to allow iTunes sharing.

From the menu, choose "System Preferences...".

Select the "Sharing" panel.

Choose the "Firewall" pane.

Your firewall should be on by default. If not, turn it on.

Scroll down the list and check "iTunes Music Sharing" i.e. port 3689.

Step 5

If others have enabled sharing, then you'll see a list of available iTunes servers in the left source panel of iTunes.

Select one, input a password if necessary, choose a playlist, and play songs.