I SHARE ITUNE ACCOUNT WITH MY KIDS BUT EVERYTHING IS MERGING SHOULD I CREATE MY OWN

i share an ituens account with my family.  everything is merging.  Can I change to another Itunes account and merge what i have over?

Floaty111 wrote:
If he purchases new music on the new account then presumably they will be in separate libraries
No. It will be in the same library.
You can have content from more than one iTunes account in the same library.
I did suggest saving the whole music folder to an external drive and then saving to new computer and deleting what he didn't want,he was less than impressed !
As opposed to sitting down now and going through everything before it gets copied over?
Kids...
It'll work but why not do it when you have the time and you are on your own computer rather than having to do it all at once?
Or you can quit iTunes, copy the entire iTunes folder to the external, open it (hold Option, launch iTunes, select Choose library... and select the iTunes folder on the extrenal) then go through and delete what he doesn't want.
Then copy the folder on the external to his computer.

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