HT202213 How do I get two accounts on one Mac to share the iTunes library?

I've consolidated two macs into one and successfully migraated everything EXCEPT access to the original account's iTunes library. I have turned on sharing on both accounts, but still cannot get the new account linked to the library. Of course apple is no help whatsoever on this - nothing i can find on the support site and unless I want to pay them $50 they won't even try to help. Anyone have any good ideas?/

With POP, there really isn't a good way. POP is designed to download from the server only, deleting messages after they are downloaded. While you can set it to not delete, there's no provision for uploading messages to the server. You need an IMAP account, which allows full synchronization of the server with the mail client, across multiple machines. Note that some mail accounts can be set up as either POP or IMAP... check with BT Connect to see if that's the case with them.

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