Help required sorting out an iTunes Library...

Hi,
I desperately need help sorting out my current iTunes configuration. Since 2008 when I purchased my current iMac my partner and I have had one main library for iTunes stored in the 'Shared' folder. Both iTunes were authorised with each others accounts which worked perfectly well. Since then we have both purchased iPhones, both have iTunes accounts/Apple IDs and I now have an iPad and MacBook Pro. I also have an iTunes Match. It's become apparent that due to the complexity of how iTunes works this is no longer a good set up, as when my partner tries to download previous purchases he gets the 'This computer is already associated with an Apple ID'. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to sort this out???
Basically we both want to have iTunes Match accounts but want the ability to share our music. Is there any way to do this? Would it be better splitting the library into two?
Please, please help - this is really doing my head in!
Ben

What you are asking for is not directly possible in Aperture for several reasons - you will have to accept a work-around.
Aperture is a Single User Application - the Library must not be accessed by more than one user at a time.
Aperture is not a network Application - the Library ought to be installed on a local volume, not a remote drive.
Using the referenced masters to access the edits to your images will not work, since the masters always stay in their original pristine state. All edited versions are included in your Aperture Library. You will not see any edits when you inspect the masters. And any change to the master image files by external programs is extremely risky and may result in broken references.
All these arguments together don't leave you much leeway for an easy solution. One workflow - the one I adopted - is the following: keep a small Aperture library on an external drive; that drive can be small and easy to carry. This Library contains only the last recent projects that still need editing with all master image files as managed masters, and for older projects only good previews to allow to browse and to grade and tag those images.
All other masters are stored on an external drive connected to my desktop computer.
The small drive is easy to carry and does not bother me much.
All other solutions - sharing the Library over the network are not save and have caused trouble.
To back up your master image files you can create a disk image of the volume the are on from time, and also back them up right on import - their is a setting in the import panel.
Regards
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