HT204074 2 itunes match accounts on same computer

My wife and I just purchased our first iMac (yay us).
We set it up with 2 user id's, both administrator, and began personalising our profiles.  She set up her music match on her profile and I discovered that when i logged in under my profile and tried to do the same with my seperate account music match account that I could not.  I got a message saying that the device was already associated with another music match id.  What can I do, I would have thought that it would be a relatively simple thing to associate two seperate accounts with two seperate profiles, not so I guess.
Any and all help would be appreciated.

Hi dpscannell,
Welcome to the Support Communities ... and congratulations on the purchase of your new iMac.
iTunes Match can only be applied to one Apple ID on one authorized computer.
iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match
It sounds like your best bet to access all of the music between your two user accounts is to use Home Sharing.
Understanding Home Sharing
I hope this information helps ....
Have a great day!
- Judy

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