1 computer, 2 I phones, and an I Pod Nano!

Myself and husband only have 1 home PC, i currently have an I phone and I tunes account that i sync together. My partner is now looking to purchase an I phone as well, and we also have been given a new I pod nano that we wish to run a home sound system from.
how will i need to go about setting up Multiple I tunes accounts and devices? and can music be shared across the i pod nano and I phones? so if i use my account to buy an album can i transfer and sync to both my I phone and the I pod nano?
I'm fairly new user and find it all a little complicated.. thanks for anyones help!

Obviously it's not something that Apple would suggest doing, but if you want to share 1 iTunes account, I would suggest creating a new admin account on your system, or using another computer. You can authorize an Apple ID on up to 5 computers. To do this open iTunes select Store (from the top menu) and Authorize computer.
If you are worried about getting all the content into another user. There are 2 ways;
1. If all of the content is purchased from the iTunes store, you would want to connect up the iPhone to iTunes (in another user) cancel the sync if it starts automatically, or before connecting up the iPhone launch iTunes and go to (Windows Edit/Preferences .. Mac iTunes/Preferences) go to the Device tab and select 'Disable automatic syncing for iPhones and iPods' .. however this does not always work. Authorize computer in the new user. Once the iPhone is connected and this user account is authorized with your shared Apple ID, go to File/Transfer purchases from iPhone. This will bring over any purchased content.
2. If not all the content is purchased, put all the content onto a flash drive, log into the test user, open iTunes, authorize the computer in this new user account and then bring over all the content. Once this is done, make sure that you can play the purchased content in the new user.
Or you can put only the non-purchased content onto the flash drive, and then do step 1 and 2 to get all your data over.
Hope this is helpful, enjoy! ✰

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