Can i keep my music when I make a new account? my wife and i have different taste in music an it is getting to be too much

My wife and I have different taste in music and I have been using her apple account to buy all my music. Well needless to say we are filling up our ipads, ipods, and iphones with each others music. I just got a new computer for my birthday (thanks to my wife who is sick of me using hers) and would like to keep all of the music I purchased on my new account. I am still using her for this question:) Can this be done? I have spent a lot of money on this music and don't want to lose it all. Please help:(

What does "what was already downloaded to my wife's computer " refer to? If its music that's been bought as digital downloads (e.g., from the iTunes store) then the issue I referred to earlier applies (plus, in the case of iTunes purchase, it may not be playable if you're using a different Apple ID in iTunes). The approach of copying content from your wife's computer to yours is valid if it is the result of importing your music from your CDs into iTunes.

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