How to manage playlists with multiple devices?

We have multiple devices in our household that use the same Macbook Pro. We all like different kinds of music and we are now having a difficult time trying to manage the playlists on the different devices. How do we manually manage playlists for each separate device? We have iPhones, iPads and iPods.

How to use multiple iPods, iPads, or iPhones with one computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495
How to Share a Family iPad
http://www.macworld.com/article/1163347/how_to_share_a_family_ipad.html
Using iPhone, iPad, or iPod with multiple computers
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1202
iOS & iCloud Tips: Sharing an Apple ID With Your Family
http://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-5-icloud-tips-sharing-an-apple-id-with-you r-family/
How To Best Use and Share Apple IDs across iPhones, iPads and iPods
http://www.nerdsonsite.com/blog/2012/06/07/help-im-appleid-confused/
 Cheers, Tom

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Edited by: gibi_31 on Aug 19, 2010 3:08 AM
Edited by: gibi_31 on Aug 19, 2010 3:11 AM

Hello,
Upon a user action on V1:
1. M1 change
=> add UndoableEdit to current CompoundEdit
=> notify V1
=> notify M2
2. M2 change
=> add UndoableEdit to current CompoundEditWhy?
Do you need to be able to undo the M2 change alone in any other case than undoing M1's change?
And if you don't add M2 change to the compound edit, doesn't the M2 update triggered by undoing the the M1 undo the M2 state automatically (thus performing the M2 undo)?
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A solution might be to inhibit M2 listener if we're inside a undo/redo, but I feel it's not clean and not sure it will always work...I agree it looks unclean (and quite dangerous actually if the app ever needs to support some form of multi-threaded model changes).
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J.

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