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Tip: How to share iTunes music on different librarys

Posted in the Apple forums was a question from a user who owns one Mac but has a login for himself and another for his wife.  He wanted to know how to transfer some songs from one library to the other.  Sharing the library was not a viable option for them, so this is what was suggested:

Go to your HD in finder.
look for the Users folder.
There you will find a folder called Shared.
Make a new folder there called music or whatever you wish to call it.
Now, navigate to your Music folder, open the iTunes folder and there you will see folders with your music, TV shows etc..
COPY the files you wish to the shared folder you made above.
Now, log in to you wife's account and open iTunes. Select File>Add to library.
Navigate to the shared folder you made (Typically Macintosh HD>Users>Shared>new folder
iTunes will add the music! Then to save hard drive space, delete the contents of your shared folder.
He reported that this worked just fine, and it may work for you too!

There are many uses for shared folders, have you discovered a unique way to utilize this feature?
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