Transferring albums to multiple devices

Hi,
I hope someone can help please.  My husband purchased an album from iTunes and is having trouble downloading it to his iPhone.  However the album has automatically downloaded to my iPhone.  I am unable to download it to our iPod too.  So I have a couple questions:
1) On iTunes is there a way to have one than one device attached to the account? Where do I go to check this?
2) If the answer to this is no then how do I tranfer the album to my husband's iPhone and to our iPod?
Also we had a MAcBook Pro for christmas so how can we copy all the music we've copied from CD's from our Toshiba to the MacBook?  I though this could be done by the iCloud but am unable to do so.
Many thanks for your time.
Deb

No problem, it is still much the same advice but you'll need to use third party tools to extract the data.
See this post from forum regular Zevoneer for some options.
If there is a chance that you've got some overlap you might want to use my DeDuper script. See this  thread for background.
tt2

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