itunes sharing (4) – the final chapter.
¶ by Rob Friesel
CONCLUSION: Something about that version. Well, maybe it’s not a conclusion b/c I can’t say that I was 100% thorough or exhaustive in this troubleshooting process. Sometimes you just have to take things on faith, I guess…
Based on the fact that KetelOne and BloodyNinja could talk the talk to each other and share music … and based on the fact that I’d disabled my software firewall, anti-virus software, and half the system services known to man, the only route I could see left was with the version. So I uninstalled iTunes from Detonator-3 (much to my chagrin) and re-installed the most recent version from Apple.com/iTunes (after a reboot) and breathed a sigh of relief when it still recognized all my songs with all their metadata. However (comma) still no dice on the Library sharing. So I took a gamble on the iTunes installer app I had stored from a while back — totally unsure if (1) it was the 4.5 version I needed and (2) whether/not it would need to hot-D/L anything from an Apple server to run at all. Crossing my fingers, I re-installed the “old” version and … got … exactly … what … I … needed:
Finally, the musical lovin’ I deserve.
Let that be a lesson to you: Don’t fucking upgrade.
Let that be a lesson to Apple: Fucking up the Windows version isn’t going to sell more G5s.
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