An odd scenario with 2 G4's & LW Playlist within iTunes
 

I have an odd situation. 2 mac G4's ("A" & "B") which are not networked but do share the same router. One of them ("B") has never had LW program on it but for some reason the iTunes on comp "B" has the LW Playlist (Let's call this Lotr's Limewire music.) Perhaps a dozen songs have been downlded via LW on comp "A". These were copied across to the other comp ("B") either via zip disk or cd-rw. There is an external HDD which "A" uses only as a backup of music, video & photos. It has only been connected to comp "B" a handle of times ... once for repair via Norton. But no music was copied from "A" to "B" this way (& it hasn't been connected to it since long before the songs were copied across.) There is also an iPod that is manually loaded via comp "B", but this iPod has never been connected to comp "A".

Now here's the confusing part, the LW Playlist which shows up in the iTunes playlist on comp "B" can be played by iTunes. But the songs don't exist on the computer!!! Searches don't find any of the songs on there. How can this be!

The questions are obvious ... how did the Lotr's Limewire music playlist get onto comp "B", & how can it be playable when the songs don't exist on the computer?

If anybody can solve this mystery I'd be much obliged. (We're bamboozled (confused) here!)

Re: An odd scenario with 2 G4's & LW Playlist within iTunes
 

Lord, have you tried to play the songs on "B" when "A" is turned off ?

Et c'est normal, c'est normal! :D

Well, this is DAAP technology implemented by Roger for quite a time now. You can play with the settings in ->options->iTunes->sharing. This is the same principle when you have two iTunes opened on two different computers on lan: you can play music by streaming the other person's playlist. Ah the joys of lan with good softwares....

Ciao ;)

Thanks both RaaF & et voilà, this gives me a better understanding of DAAP. I thought it only applied to computers on a LAN. I guess sharing a router makes them a lan which is not what I'd have thought.

Problem solved ... yes after shutting down "A" & starting "B", there was no longer a Lotr's Limewire music playlist on comp "B". lol ;)