HT204053 We just got a new computer and one of us may lose our Itune account.  Help!

Both my husband and I have had separate ITunes accounts on our computer that we download and purchase our own music into.  Now we also each have IPhones and separate apple IDs for downloading and purchasing music.  We just got a new computer which only allows one Apple ID.  What do we do?  Will one of us have to give up our account and lose our music library? 

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