The Black Family Weblog

We had a good discussion on Apple’s iTunes last night at small group.  We discussed sharing your tunes with others on the network.  I made the statement that you can share with up to 5 authorized computers on the home network.  Here is Apple’s official take on it (italics is my emphasis):

If your computer is connected to other computers in your home or office using a wired or wireless network, you can share your iTunes library with up to five of those computers. iTunes can also look for shared libraries on your network and display them in iTunes.

You can listen to a shared song or watch a shared video, but you can’t add it to your library or playlists, copy it to an iPod, or burn it to a CD.

You can also share audiobooks purchased from the iTunes Store, but you can’t share Audible spoken programs downloaded from Audible.com or QuickTime sound files.

To share music or video you purchased from the iTunes Store, you must authorize the computer to play the purchases; you can authorize up to five computers at a time.

You can also share a playlist with friends by publishing it as an iMix on the iTunes Store. Store visitors can see the songs in your iMix and listen to a preview of any song available on the iTunes Store.

Sharing is intended for personal use only, and is possible only with computers in the same network subnet.

Take special note that you can take your iPod to work, authorize your work computer, and sync from your iPod to your work computer.  You would have to use one of your authorizations for this, but really…who has 5 computers at home?