My wife and I just got new iPads.  We also have an iPhone 4s (wife) and iPhone 5 (mine).  With these iPhone we each have our own appleID.  My question is that I want to set up iTunes on our desktop and share media (songs, movies etc) on all our devices.

We want to keep our separate ID's.  How can I accomplish this?  Do I need to set up a family appleID for the desktop or use one of the existing accounts?  Thanks for the help.

If you don't mind sharing everything, you can share the same apple ID. I do think it limits your ability to facetime, but I'm not sure on that.

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