I guess that depends on how much content you have tied to that ID. For
me I would keep it the same.
CB
On 2/6/12 3:34 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Ah, now you two gents are just to clever. See I had not really had a
need for fast user switching, but now knowing this I can have my cake,
doughnuts, and coffee as well. Now the only final question is since I
use my Apple ID, does that other user have to be me or can I make it a
test user if I wanted?
THanks,
On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:34 PM, TIM KILBURN wrote:
Hi Scott,
If you turn Fast User Switching on in system Preferences, then you
can actually have two users logged in at the same time. You should
then be able to run iTunes from both accounts like Chris mentioned.
When using Fast User Switching, you can just go between the various
logged in users by selecting them under the Users menu which is
accessed in the Status menu, VO-M-M.
Very ingenious idea, much better idea then using up so much memory
running a second OS.
Later...
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On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com
<mailto:scottn3...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Chris,
Yes I understand that is possible, but unfortunately and unless I am
missing something here, the issue is I would have to log in as that
user and launch iTunes. THis means I could not be logged in as
myself because it would not be possible to effectively have two
instances of iTUnes running.
On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I'm saying you can have two different users both logged into the
same Mac and both with their own instance of iTunes running. Give
it a try by creating a second account and then switching to that
user without logging out of the current user. If you launch iTunes
you'll find a pristine library with settings all its own.
CB
On 2/6/12 10:45 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Chris,
Yes a Mini would work in this case, but not looking to go that
route. I'm done buying computers for a while. :)
So, with that said my wife is a user on my Mac. I could obviously
log in as her and setup iTunes and that would work great. However,
I do not know how I could have us both logged into the same
machine and I think what you are saying is you have two different
Macs in this scenario?
Seems to me the problem is that iTunes has to be running and that
library active. If I could get around that I probably would solve
my problem. :)
THanks,
On Feb 6, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Chris Blouch wrote:
As an aside, an old MacMini would also make a nice media computer
if you want real storage and more than what an AppleTV will get
you. The headphone jack is actually a digital optical output
which you can connect to any typical surround-sound stereo to get
the full 5.1 output from DVDs and such.
That said, I did try just duplicating the iTunes app to try and
run two instances, but no luck, they share the same preference
files. What did work was setting up another user on my Mac and
having that second user logged in running iTunes. That instance
had it's own library and preferences so I could share two
libraries from the same machine with two users logged in.
CB
On 2/6/12 10:11 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi Scott,
If you had a 1st Generation Apple TV with the built-in HD, this
would work as once the Apple TV is synced, you wouldn't need to
have the iTunes Library actually active. Now, of course,
they're hard to find now and you need sighted assistance to set
them up, but after that, you'd be golden. I was also thinking
about iTunes Match on the 2nd Gen Apple TV, you'd be able to use
a matched Library in that situation except, at the moment, it
only applies to iTunes music files, not movie and TV shows. You
might also have volume restrictions from your ISP that could
interfere with this idea as well.
Not helping much, am I?
Hmmm, you could stoop to putting Windows on your Mac as well so
that you could run Fusion or Parallels, thus having two
Libraries running simultaneously from the same machine. I don't
particularly care for Windows though, even though I have to use
it at work sometimes.
I'll think some more and let you know if I come up with anything.
Later...
On 2012-02-06, at 4:34 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
Tim and Ricardo,
I figured out how to do this, but sadly I ran into one problem
that I suspect there is no solution for. In order to make this
Home SHaring thing work you have to have iTunes running and
that library active which means I cannot use my library. So,
it amounts to all or nothing. So, that idea ain't gonna work.
THanks,
On Feb 6, 2012, at 6:02 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
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