I have windows vista and there are 4 user accounts. How do we share our music library and only sync the tracks we want individually? I am no computer whizz so my understanding is very basic. Thank you.

Thanks for any help

To give other users read-only access to your iTunes library, use the Sharing features of iTunes. Sharing works over the local network as well as on the same computer. See the built-in help for details.
If you want to give full read/write access to more than one user, see the support article linked below.
iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer
There is a way to share the library without moving it to a secondary volume. If you really need to do that, ask for instructions.

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