HT204053 I have two Apple ids, how can I get all music I have purchased in one library?

I have used two Apple IDs to purchase music. I want to consolidate the music to one library. How can I do this?

Wooookay ..... I need to slow down some here.
OK. Thanks for this. Yes I was confusing two things.
Forget the Store.
In my iTunes Library there are some songs I purchased (with ID2) along with those from ID1. There are a few songs with a "!" in the first column on the left of my songs listing. When I click on those songs I get a message which says "can't play this song as itunes cannot locate the file, then it gives me the option to locate it. Once I take that option I am in finder but cannot find the song. it is not in the location other "playable songs" are.
somewhere in frogging around i did see a location that looked something like //file/xxxxx/xxxx/user/etc. but I cannot find this location. somehow a few songs from a specific download have been sent to this eroneous location which itunes cannot find. I want to get them moved to where itunes can find and play them.
I can later deal with ordering music with two different IDs.
Thanks for helping

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