Can my wife and I share iTunes accounts on different computers?

My wife uses an Apple Airbook, I work on a desktop PC. I've had an iTunes account for a long time and we share music, etc. So can we share the same iTunes account from our different computers?

No. iOS is not designed at this time for multiple account logins. You would be synching over the top of each other.

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LeeDribin wrote:
How can my wife and I share iBooks on each of our iPads?
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http://www.mcelhearn.com/os-x-10-9-mavericks-sharing-your-ibooks-library/

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http://www.mcelhearn.com/os-x-10-9-mavericks-sharing-your-ibooks-library/

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Authorization
Macs: iTunes Store- About authorization and deauthorization.
Windows: How to Authorize or Deauthorize iTunes | PCWorld.
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De-authorizing Computers (contributed by user John Galt)
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Hello everyone,
My wife has had an iTunes account, Iphone, and Ipod for a while. I just bought an Iphone and Ipod and would like to utilize her music library without messing up her phone or itunes account. We'd like to maintain separate apps and stuff on our devices...so when I download music and apps, she doesn't want that showing up on her phone when she pairs it to her itunes account. Can this be done?
I have heard that I need to create my own Apple ID, which I have...so I can download my own apps...but will I have access to her itunes music if I do that?
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My wife and I 'share' an iPad in this way:
My wife has always been 'PC-averse'. She hated using Windows and MS Office at work. She recently retired, and needed 'something' to send and receive email and occasionally browse the web, and shop online. A netbook would have sufficed, but still had Windows. The iPad 2 is perfect for her, because it is 'instant on' in standby with a smart cover, has huge battery life for her occasional use (she checks email once a day, and we charge it every couple of weeks), and still has lots of functionality, (and free apps for me to play with!) well beyond her basic needs.
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She retrieves all her email exclusively on her iPad.
I get all my email on my MacBook.
Apps:
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All apps are available to everyone, but...
we don't usually use social networking apps on the iPad, and I did notice that the Twitter free app stays 'signed-in' all the time, if you let it.
AND... Update requires signing out of one Apple ID and signing-in with the other Apple ID in order to update ALL the Apps. It's not difficult. If you're in one Apple ID and Update requires the other Apple ID, you are simply shown the Apple ID that 'purchased' the App, and prompted for that password. If you cancel, you can let the other person do 'update' when they're signed in.
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I've downloaded apps I'm interested in and put them in folders on additional Apps pages, separate from the 'Home page' that she uses. My apps are a few games, almost 100 photo apps, a few music apps, and one magazine app subscription that was free with a print subscription.
Music, Video, podcasts
All the music on the iPad are her songs. We've downloaded a few free TV episodes, but don't rent or buy movies on the iPad.
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I shoot most photos with a Canon point & shoot and upload everything to my MacBook iPhoto.
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Not really. It took a while to 'grow' organically into this arrangement. Once I accidentally synced to my account, and all the apps I had downloaded moved out of the folders I had created, so I had to re-create and re-arrange them. Time consuming, but no apps or data was lost.
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DIFFERENT ITUNES ACCOUNTS ON DIFFERENT COMPUTERS

I am very new to Ipod and Itunes, so forgive my ignorance on this issue. I have opened an Itunes account and have copied all my CD's (and some purchased songs) to that account. I have synched my Ipod, and that is not a problem. This is on my computer at my office.
The question I have concerns my son's itunes account, which is currently installed on our laptop. When I go onto the laptop under my user name and open itunes, the itunes account looks empty, whereas it looks full of my sons' music when I open itunes under his user name on the laptop. I had previously assumed that you can only have one itunes account on each computer, and that our laptop computer is now earmarked as my son's itunes computer, whereas my office computer is my itunes computer. Is it possible for me to have my itunes account AND my son's itunes account accessible on my laptop computer, or can I just access the one itunes account on that computer? Also, if it is just one itunes account per computer, why am I unable to access his song list when I open Itunes under my user name on the laptop?

I appreciate your response. I'm sure my question wasn't clear. I'm not expecting my music to "magically" appear on my laptop when it is in an itunes account on my office computer. My question was twofold: 1) Why when I open itunes on the laptop under my username do I not see my son's music, since his is the music that is in the itunes account on the laptop? (I do see his music library when I open the laptop itunes using HIS username.) and 2) Is there a way to have two different itunes libraries on the same computer? I'd love to be able to access my itunes library AND his itunes library on the laptop, but my hunch is there's no way to have two different libraries. I don't want to combine the libraries, because I don't necessarily want his music on my ipod and vice verse. Thanks for your input----

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231 Buchanan wrote:
... but we are ideally trying to combine them ... Is this possible?
from this support article:
I have multiple Apple IDs. Is there a way for me to consolidate them into a single Apple ID?
At this time, Apple IDs cannot be consolidated.
so that we have a central iTunes library that we can both pull from
a single iTunes can be authorized for up to 5 iTunes store accounts !
We have 2 iPhones and several iPods.
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