• Read Me First
• Introduction
• Quick Start
• Sync Photos and Videos across Devices
• Sync a Photo Library across Devices
• Send Photos and Videos to Others
• Broadcast and Share Photo Albums
• Choose a File Sharing Method
• Use OS X File Sharing
• Sync Files and Folders across Devices
• Sync Folders with Others
• Broadcast Download Links
• Send Files to Others
• Share Documents with Others
• Send Contacts to Others
• Sync Contacts across Devices
• Sync Contacts with Others
• Broadcast Calendar Events
• Sync Calendars and Reminders across Devices
• Sync Calendars and Reminders with Others
• Sync Email across Devices
• Share Optical Discs with Other Macs
• Share Printers on Your Local Network
• Share Your iOS Device’s Internet Connection
• Share Your Mac’s Internet Connection
• Broadcast and Share Your Mac’s Screen
• Broadcast Your iOS Device’s Screen
• Broadcast Audio from Your iOS Device
• Share iPhone Calls and Texts across Devices
• Broadcast Browser Tabs to Other Devices
• Sync Browser Bookmarks across Devices
• Send Web Links to Others
• Sync Passwords across Devices
• Sync Passwords with Others
• Use iCloud Family Sharing
• Broadcast and Share Games and Game Stats
• Send Radio Stations to Others
• Send iTunes Playlists to Others
• Broadcast an iTunes Library in Your Home
• Share Tasks among Devices with Handoff
• About This Book
• About the Author
• About the Publisher
• Copyright and Fine Print

Send iTunes Playlists to Others

A playlist in iTunes is exactly that—a list of songs. Perhaps you’ve created the world’s best playlist for a family road trip, for writing on a rainy day, or for birthday parties in odd-numbered years. You can send that list to your friends so that they, too, can experience the sonic perfection of your curatorial skills.

Unlike mix tapes (remember mix tapes?) or their CD equivalents (remember CDs?), playlists don’t include the actual music—they really are just lists. So, if the recipient happens to have all the same tracks in her iTunes library, she’ll hear everything as you intended. If not, an error message will appear when the playlist is imported stating that not all tracks are available.

One solution is to share the music using Home Sharing (see Broadcast an iTunes Library in Your Home), which works well enough if the other person is on your local network and has one of the (up to) five computers you’ve authorized to play your purchased content. But Apple no longer lets you buy someone else an arbitrary playlist of files—you can send an individual track or an entire album as a gift, but that’s not the same as buying a playlist. The only (more or less) legal option I’m aware of is burning a CD with the playlist contents, assuming your Mac has a SuperDrive.

Send Playlist Tracks with Home Sharing

If your goal is to give someone else on your local network (and already signed in to Home Sharing) both a playlist and the constituent tracks, you must transfer the tracks themselves first. This needs to happen on the other person’s computer:

1. On the intended recipient’s Mac, open iTunes, click the Home Sharing icon in the top-left corner, and select your music library to display the shared iTunes content from your computer (the one with the tracks in question).
2. Select the playlist whose contents you want to copy ①.

   

3. Select all the tracks in the playlist.
4. Click Import.

The files transfer from your computer over the network. Then you can proceed with Send a Playlist.

Send a Playlist

1. In iTunes on your own Mac, select the playlist.
2. Choose File > Library > Export Playlist.
3. Choose a name and location for the exported playlist and click Save.
4. Transfer the file you just created to the other person’s Mac. (How? Look in Send Files to Others for ideas.)
5. In iTunes on the other person’s Mac, choose File > Library > Import Playlist, select the file you just transferred, and click Open.

The newly imported playlist should appear, with all the tracks you just transferred properly associated.

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