Despite my hopes yesterday, I didn’t get a chance to try sharing music between Mac and Windows iTunes last night, but I did copy a few songs I bought from the iTunes Music Store using my Mac to my Windows machine this morning. When I asked it to play the first track, it prompted for my music store account information, connected to authorize this machine, and then played that track and the others that were brought over in the same way.

So the downside is that moving tracks from one machine to another is not seamless, requiring you to dig up the files and physically copy them over; the upside is that once they are there, authorizing the other computer is painless.

I posted three new mixes over at the Art of the Mix last month that I neglected to point to, partly because I was trying to keep them a secret from the birthday girl. Now that she’s had them for about a month, no reason to hide them any longer. For those who received these mixes on CD from me, here are the missing band names (sorry):

• Your Favorite Scary 80s Songs: A set of stuff that I’m alternately ashamed to admit I listened to and still gleefully do the white man dance to.
• Your Favorite Not-Scary 80s Songs: Stuff that it’s still hard to believe was actually released in the 80s, some of it on major labels.
• a page I was meaning to send her: like the description says, a mix of stuff I happened to be listening to at the end of the summer. One of my favorite mixes to date.