Share your music with multiple users on one computer

If you're trying to share music between multiple computers, follow these steps.

If you're using Mac OS X, follow these steps:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Go to your iTunes Media folder. By default, it's in ~/Music/iTunes. (This folder may be named iTunes Music if you created your iTunes library in iTunes 9 or earlier.) 
   Note: "~" represents your Home folder. Other users on your computer can't access these locations.
3. Drag the iTunes Media folder to a public location. For example, you could move it to the Public folder in your Home folder (~/Public) or to a location outside your Home folder that other users can access (/Users/Shared).
   Important: Don't move the iTunes folder, the iTunes library file, or the iTunes library.xml file.
4. Open iTunes.
5. Choose iTunes > Preferences.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click the Change button.
8. In the window that opens, go to your iTunes Media folder.
9. Click Choose or Open.

If you're using Windows, follow these steps:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Locate your iTunes Media folder. (This folder may be named iTunes Music if you created your iTunes library in iTunes 9 or earlier). By default, it's in these locations:
   • Windows XP and Windows 2000: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes
   • Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8: \Users\username\Music\iTunes
   • Note: The Windows version of iTunes doesn't copy all the music you add to your iTunes library to your iTunes Media folder. To copy the Music in your library to your iTunes Media Folder (if you have enough hard drive space), choose Consolidate Library from File > Library > Organize.
3. Drag the iTunes Media folder to a public location. You can use one of these public folders:
   • Windows XP and Windows 2000: \Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\My Music
   • Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8: \Users\Public\Public Music
   • Important: Don't move the iTunes folder, the iTunes library file, or the iTunes library.xml file.
4. Open iTunes.
5. Choose Edit > Preferences.
6. Click Advanced.
7. Click the Change button.
8. In the Change Music Folder Location dialog, navigate to your iTunes Media folder.
9. Click OK.

Repeat these steps for each user that you want to share music with. If multiple users on your computer are storing music in the same public folder, duplicate song files may appear if a user imports music from a CD that another user already imported.

iTunes in the Cloud availability by country

The table below shows you what types of purchases you can download again in each country. If a certain type of content can be downloaded again in that country, a ✓ will appear in the country's row for that content type. If music, apps, or books are available in your country, you can enable Automatic Downloads on your computers and iOS devices to automatically download new purchases made from other devices. This feature is only available for music, apps, and books.

Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Albania					✓	✓
Algeria					✓	✓
Angola					✓	✓
Anguilla	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Antigua & Barbuda	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Argentina	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Armenia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Australia	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Austria	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Azerbaijan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Bahamas	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Bahrain	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Barbados	✓	✓			✓	✓
Belarus	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Belgium	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Belize	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Benin					✓	✓
Bermuda	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Bhutan					✓	✓
Bolivia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Botswana	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Brazil	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
British Virgin Islands	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Brunei	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Bulgaria	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Burkina-Faso	✓	✓			✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Cambodia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Canada	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Cape Verde	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Cayman Islands	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Chad					✓	✓
Chile	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
China					✓	✓
Colombia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Congo, Republic of					✓	✓
Costa Rica	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Croatia					✓	✓
Cyprus	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Czech Republic	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Denmark	✓		✓		✓	✓
Dominica	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Dominican Republic	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Ecuador	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Egypt	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
El Salvador	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Estonia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Fiji	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Finland	✓		✓		✓	✓
France	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Gambia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Germany	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Ghana	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Greece	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Grenada	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Guatemala	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Guinea-Bissau	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Guyana					✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Honduras	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Hong Kong	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Hungary	✓		✓		✓	✓
Iceland					✓	✓
India	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Indonesia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Ireland	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Israel	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Italy	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Jamaica					✓	✓
Japan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Jordan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Kazakhstan	✓	✓			✓	✓
Kenya	✓	✓			✓	✓
Kuwait					✓	✓
Kyrgystan	✓	✓			✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Laos	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Latvia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Lebanon	✓		✓		✓	✓
Liberia					✓	✓
Lithuania	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Luxembourg	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Macau	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Macedonia					✓	✓
Madagascar					✓	✓
Malawi					✓	✓
Malaysia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Mali					✓	✓
Malta, Republic of	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Mauritania					✓	✓
Mauritius	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Mexico	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Micronesia, Federated States of	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Moldova	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Mongolia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Montserrat					✓	✓
Mozambique	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Namibia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Nepal	✓	✓			✓	✓
Netherlands	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
New Zealand	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Nicaragua	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Niger	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Nigeria	✓	✓			✓	✓
Norway	✓		✓		✓	✓
Oman	✓		✓		✓	✓
Pakistan					✓	✓
Palau					✓	✓
Panama	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Papua New Guinea	✓	✓			✓	✓
Paraguay	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Peru	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Philippines	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Poland	✓				✓	✓
Portugal	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Qatar	✓		✓		✓	✓
Romania					✓	✓
Russia	✓		✓		✓	✓
St. Kitts & Nevis	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
St. Lucia					✓	✓
St. Vincent & The Grenadines					✓	✓
Sao Tome e Principe					✓	✓
Saudi Arabia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Senegal					✓	✓
Seychelles					✓	✓
Sierra Leone					✓	✓
Singapore	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Slovakia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Slovenia	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Solomon Islands					✓	✓
South Africa	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
South Korea					✓	✓
Spain	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Sri Lanka	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Suriname					✓	✓
Swaziland	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Sweden	✓		✓		✓	✓
Switzerland	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Country	Music	Music Videos	Movies1	TV Shows	Apps	Books
Taiwan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Tajikistan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Tanzania					✓	✓
Thailand	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Trinidad & Tobago	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Tunisia					✓	✓
Turkey	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Turkmenistan	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Turks & Caicos					✓	✓
Uganda	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Ukraine	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
United Arab Emirates	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
United Kingdom	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
United States	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Uruguay					✓	✓
Uzbekistan	✓	✓			✓	✓
Venezuela	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Vietnam	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓
Yemen					✓	✓
Zimbabwe	✓	✓	✓		✓	✓

¹Some previously purchased movies may not be available in iTunes in the Cloud.

Using Sync Collections with PDFs in iBooks

If you turned on Sync Collections, iBooks will keep your PDFs (and non–iBooks Store books) in the same collections across all your iOS devices and Mac (if you're using OS X Mavericks). For example, if you have the same PDF on all your devices, when you move that PDF to your Sci-Fi collection in iBooks on your iPhone, that PDF will appear in your Sci-Fi collection the next time you open iBooks on your iPad.

If you delete a PDF (or non–iBooks Store book) while you have Sync Collections turned on, it only affects the copy on the device. For example, if you delete a copy of the PDF from your iPad, it will still be on your iPhone.

For more information about iBooks and the iBooks Store, see the frequently asked questions and how to sync iTunes Digital Booklets to your iOS device.

If you attempt to do this using iTunes 11.0, you will see the following error:

To resolve this issue, update to iTunes 11.0.1 or later.

Menus present:

Menus missing:

Additionally, text may be missing from the Settings screen for any device connected to iTunes as shown below:

This issue may occur if some of your default Windows fonts have been removed from your computer. To display this text on Windows Vista or Windows 7, iTunes uses fonts from the Segoe UI font family. To determine if these fonts are in place:

1. From the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2. Open the Fonts control panel.
3. Find the Segoe UI font family in the list, and double-click it to open it.
4. On the Segoe UI font family details page, ensure that Segoe UI Bold and Segoe UI Regular are present.  

If you find that the Segoe UI font family is missing, or that either Segoe UI Bold or Segoe UI Regular are missing, then you will need to reinstall the Segoe UI font family from your Windows installation disc.

Learn more

Verify that photos are in a compatible format. On a Mac, these file formats will sync from your iPhoto Library to your device: JPG, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, GIF, PNG, JPG2000 or JP2, PSD, SGI, and BMP.

On Windows, these file formats will sync to your device: JPG , JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TIFF, SGI, and PNG.

Photos without extensions may not appear on your device.