Two iPhones, same iTunes, different Apple ID. Can they both sync some elements?

Hi,
I recently upgraded to a new iPhone, passing my old 4 to my wife. She created a different AppleID and manages her phone with a separate laptop/iTunes. She'd love to be able to sync photos and music with my iTunes library (specific iTunes playlist and subsets of my Aperture library). Is this possible, considering that:
I'd prefer not to create another user on my Mac to do that, and
Only music and photos are to be shared; apps, contacts and everything else must stay separated
I'm under the impression that I can add my wife's iPhone to the "manageable" iOS devices on my Mac and set the sync items as to exclude contacts, apps, calendars and whatever else I don't want to sync, but I'd love to be sure of that before trying anything that could wipe my wife's stuff and replace it with mine...
Thanks in advance,
Edoardo

An iOS device can only be synced with one iTunes library at a time. So if you try to sync it with yours the content will be wiped. So, doing what you want to do really isn't possible.

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