HT202213 Can multiple Apple ID's share one computer and music?

My husband and I want to share music but have 2 separate apple ID's. Is there any way for us to share music?

The easiest way is for each user to have their own iTunes library in their own Windows user account on that computer.
To create a new user account: Start > Control Panel > Add or remove user accounts. (That is the Windows 7 version; it may look slightly different in another version of Windows.

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HT202213 How do I manage multiple Apple ID accounts to one computer?

My husband & I travel a lot and both have our own Itune accounts & apple ID's, Ipads & Iphones but share one MAC when we are home.
We no longer seem able to download all our various purchases to the one computer. Any idea how we bypass the message that keeps coming up?
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This is the confusing difference between "authorization" and "association".
In order to play content on a computer, you need to "authorize" the AppleID used to buy the content. This can be done for many AppleIDs on one computer.
However, in order to *redownload* content on a computer, including
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- autodownloading purchases made on another device
- running iTunes Match
you have to "associate" the computer to that AppleID, and this can only be done for one AppleID *per computer* (NOT per user account). This user can only change every 90 days.
There is no workaround for this. They'll reset the counter for a one time error (like when my son locked me out of Match by redownloading a TV show), but if you want content from more than one user, you'll have to copy it there by some other means.
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Multiple Apple ID's on one computer - it says we have to wait 90 days to add the 2nd one?

I deauthorized our computer using my applie ID - I did not know it would deauthorize my husbands account as well.
I reauthorized it using my AppleID. Now my husband cannot authorize his account until 90 days go by. We share the computer, is there a way around this?
He is the one with the itunes match on his account & most of the music. Now he cannot access it for 90 days? Is that right?
I will forfeit my account on this computer if we can put his on.

A computer, as far as I know, can't have more than one iTunes library at a time. I could be wrong, since you seemingly did so previously? Either way, I'd say you will need to deauthorize your account and authorize his. If you still have trouble, then you will need to contact Apple support to reset the account or you might be better to just wait and contect them right away, get the "rules" of your situation and then see how they can help.
Oh, I think actually I found what might be your problem, yes you will need to contact Apple directly. The problem is a legal issue due to the addition of iCloud. So, it seems your computer accessing both accounts was a sort of grandfather glitch that you "fixed" when you deauthorized your account. Now, again due to legal reasons related to iCloud, you cannot authorize your husband's computer because otherwise what's stopping you from downloading all of your music, then downloading all of his music, then get a few friends together and download all of their music. Sure, you could copy the files over manually and add them (and that may be what you have to do for the next 90 days) but they can't allow it to be so easy as just downloading multiple accounts to your computer(s).
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The easiest way is for each user to have their own iTunes library in their own Windows user account on that computer.
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