How do I share music with my husband who has his own Ipod without deleting his music and so he can view his music too on my itunes?

He has music on his Ipod but his computer broke. So he wants to use my mac book to buy music which he signed in and we have not bought anything yet. Plus how do we see his music on it itune on my computer. I already did home sharing but nothing yet. He wants to be able to use my computer like its his to get and share music. Please help Thanks.

The best way for him to share your computer is to set him up with his own user account on your macbook. I'm not talking about iTunes account or email account, I'm talking about a login to the computer itself. Go to System Preferences -> Users and Groups and create a new user there for him. You will see your user account while you
are there. Once you have set him up with his own computer account, have him sign in and open itunes and log into the iTunes store with his own account and it won't mess with yours. You guys will be sharing the disk space on your mac so try to keep that in mind.

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