Is there a way to combine accounts and music libraries?

My wife and I got married last year and she has and itunes account and I have one. Is there a way to deactivate her account so that I can take all her music and put it on my computer so that we have one itunes account and library to sync both our ipods to?
Thanks,
dp

06scooby,
Welcome to the Forums. Congratulations on getting married, I hope you the best. As for Combining iTunes "accounts" I don't believe it is possible. You could stop using one of the accounts for future purchases in order to make it easier and smoother. Also note you can activate up to 5 computers per account, meaning you could activate your computer to play your wife's music. I've found that you can move over music in a couple of ways. ex. you could use an external drive copy the music on it and then onto your computer. You could also setup a small network and move it over the network. Or if your up to it move all the iTunes purchases onto your iPod and then on your computer after you've activated your wife's account. Hit transfer Purchases. Then all of her purchases will transfer to your computer. The way to activate your computer with her account goto (Store)/(Authorize Computer) from the menus
Hope this helps.

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