Family iTunes Acct. Sharing

Hi Apple Gang. Long time mac user, stuck with question. Over a years I have iTunes acct and build my music library, which we are enjoying. in past few years we have purchase over 50 movies stored in iTunes. My wife use same iTunes library, and time to time is asked for password for iTunes acct, which is my iCloud password. Soooo..... my question is :
Can I have separate password for use with iTunes to be more family friendly, and not allowed my wife to go trough my iCloud emails. Don't get me wrong, but, just for sake of happy marriage, I don't won't anybody to go trough my e mails. Do I have to create new email for iTunes library only. any help will be appreciate.
Best,
Dan.

Items purchsed through one iTunes account are permanently associated with that account and cannot be transferred.
Now be careful to be exact when using terminology. An iTunes account isn't on your computer. An iTunes account is an Apple ID and purchases at hte online store. Items purchased are downloaded to your computer but the account is online. On your computer you have your iTunes library which is a set of links pointing to media and purchases stored on the computer. Different users of a computer may also have their own user area or computer accounts, each of which may have an individual iTunes library, or can share a common library, or alternatively a common set of media pointed to individual libraries. You can see why it is essential to be specific in asking questions about his.
If your daughter is now going to start syncing to her own iTunes account through her own library in her own user space you can do a limited amount of file moving. The media will still be associated with the old iTunes account but as long as she is careful about not misplacing themedia there will be no need to go back through that account. There's probably a lot more detail but I use an old iTunes and have no devices so I am just reporting on what I have read.

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And here for > How to Use Multiple iDevices with One Computer
Also have a read here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18409815?ac_cid=ha
And you may find this Video Link of Interest...
http://macmost.com/setting-up-multiple-ios-devices-for-messages-and-facetime.htm l

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TLate wrote:
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Eick family wrote:
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