Can we share media on one computer between multiple apple ids?

I recently purchased an imac for our family. I'm new to the apple world and have many questions. The most important deals with itunes though. My wife and children have had ipods for some time, adding media to them using a windows pc (under one apple id). I'm wondering, first how do i get the songs from my wife's ipod/pc onto our new computer (she has an ipod touch)? And secondly, can each of us have our own seperate apple ids but share songs and other media purchased under each other's accounts? We need seperate id's to use things like "chat" on our ipods.

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You can check it out on computer iTunes, select the song, right click and choose "Get Info"
You can see Purchased by and Apple ID used to obtain them.
If it's only a few, your choice is to delete them from computer and buy them again with the correct Apple ID

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