ID on home sharing

My husband and I have had our iphones for a while but have only just got round to setting up home sharing. The only thing is we have had separate apple IDs but can only use one for home sharing. Will we lose everything that's been bought on one of the IDs?

Home Sharing only works with one Apple ID but you can authorize iTunes on the computer with more than one Apple ID using the 'Authorize This Computer…' command from the 'Store' menu in iTunes. I don't know if this will suit your needs but it is safe to try.

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    Understanding Home Sharing
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
    Setup Home Sharing on iPad
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4557
    Troubleshooting Home Sharing
    http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2972

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    post edited to correct spelling errors

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  • Should we share itunes store account if we use home sharing?

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    Considering a family of 4, each of us having between 2 and 3 devices. Can all of them use music through Home Sharing or is the limit of 5 applying?
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    Hi,
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    Goal
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    Attempt
    -I turn on home sharing on my PC with my PC iTunes account, it then shows up on the "Computers" list as PC
    -I turn on home sharing on my Mac with my Mac iTunes account, it then shows up on the "Computers" list as Mac, but it deletes the PC share
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    whew... I'm out of breath... I hope there is an Apple Genius out there that can help.
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    After retrying the home share with the SAME ITUNES ACCOUNT ON HOME SHARING I finally got it to work.

  • Can you use home sharing across continents

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    -  if my husband has a separate account - can we still share existing purchases or future purchases on our joined account or not?
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    have a look at this support article.

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    As  Winston Churchill wrote, however you might want to do a factory reset on the Apple TV.
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  • Can I use home sharing on separate accounts on same computer?

    We have iPods (one 3G and one 4G) and separate accounts on our Mac and on iTunes but would like to share some but not all of the same things through home sharing. Is this possible? I haven't found a way to do it. The information I found available only says for different computers. Am I not looking in the right place? I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me how to do this or where to find that information. Thank you.

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