DuFF commented the other day on joehungry.com with a possible solution to the 5 users per day restriction on iTunes music library sharing:

# DuFF Says:
August 21st, 2005 at 4:24 pm e

I’m assuming they don’t have this restriction if you add a password. The easiest solution to me would be to add a password and then just put it in your share name so everyone knows it. I haven’t tested this though.

So, here are the steps you can take to test this:

1. Open the iTunes preferences. (In MS Windows, Edit->Preferences)
2. Click on the Sharing tab.
3. Check “Share my music”.
4. Check “Share entire library”.
5. In the “Shared Name” field, type: password: no5userlimit
6. Check “Require password”.
7. In the “Require password” field, type: no5userlimit

Now, the password no5userlimit is just a suggestion. Feel free to use your own creative password. Make sure to tell all your friends to do the same, if this solution actually works. I will get around to testing it next week and report back.

Anyone else up for testing this and reporting back?

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