So you think it might be as easy as simply pointing two iTunes installations at the same set of files? I guess that makes sense. If I updated the library from one iTunes instance, I assume it would update the library (it's an XML file, isn't it?) and the other iTunes instance would see it the next time it was started up. Am I thinking correctly here?
It should be exactly that easy. It's worked for me in the past. What I had issues with was pointing both a Mac and a Windows machine at the same library. Since the pathing uses a different syntax on the two platforms, iTunes would eventually not be able to find the music files on one of the systems.
Conceivably this could be gotten around if the paths were shares for both systems and ended up using the same syntax. In my testing I was storing the files locally on the Windows box and things just wouldn't work out no matter what I tried. You shouldn't have this problem with two Windows machines or two Macs.
The library file is in some database format. The XML file is only a backup as far as I recall.
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