HT204053 changing two apple ids into one

My husband and I have two different Apple Ids and we are finding extremely difficult when we are trying to download all the music we want into our IPad Air. I made the mistake of creating a new ID not knowing I could have used the main one weve been using for years. How can we go about combing our Apple IDs and just having one account?

You can't merge/combine accounts, nor transfer content between them - content will remain tied to the account that downloaded it.
If both accounts are authorised on the computer's iTunes that you sync to (Store > Authorise This Computer menu option) then you should be able to sync content from both to it.
If some content is currently on a different computer then you should be able to copy it over : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Or you can add it to that computer's library from your backup of your downloads/library (File > Add To Library menu option)

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