How do you combine two iTunes libraries - my husband I have separate iTunes libraries and want to combine our music

iTunes: my husband and I have two separate iTunes libaries and would like to combine them. I have tried homesharing but as my laptop is not an Apple I can't seem to find advice online with Apple.
Can anyone help.

iTunes- How to share music between different user accounts on a single computer
You cannot merge two separate libraries across user accounts. Photos does not have the function of merging different Photos.library files. If you have Aperture then you can merge the two before migrating over to Photos.

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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3991

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