My wife and I have separate Ids but all our music is in one library. How will this work with iCloud?

My wife and I have separate Ids but all our music is in one library. How will this work with iCloud? i'm trying to download past purchases from her id, but itunes is saying that I can't because the computer is associated with my apple id. Can I associate the computer with both ids for the purpose of identifying all of our music with both or just one of our ids? Is there a good way to do this? I'm sure we're not the only people with this problem...
Using 2 iphone 3gs, ipad, mac mini, appletv, itunes for windows, macbook, and imac.

iTunes- How to share music between different user accounts on a single computer
You cannot merge two separate libraries across user accounts. Photos does not have the function of merging different Photos.library files. If you have Aperture then you can merge the two before migrating over to Photos.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5621

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
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Hi Rysz,
Haven't tried this yet however not sure I understand why I would download my wife's purchases when I log into her iTunes account. my purchases are the ones I am trying to get n our PC. Appreciate your clarifying for me.
Thanks
Guy

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HT4914 My wife and I have separate iTunes accounts can we share music through iTunes Match ?

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SHARING iTunes MUSIC
http://macmost.com/five-ways-to-share-music-in-itunes.html

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Welcome to the Apple Community.
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I have had this issue lately.
I can only put it down to using the one computer to update all our IPads for me and my wife.
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