Is there and FAQ for SHARING Itunes library on one computer?

I know this has been discussed, but my SEARCH queries seem to be coming up short.
There are two of us here, on one Imac. My wife and I. We both have itunes accounts and seperate logins. I have the itunes library in the SHARED folder on the imac.
What I don't really see is the new music that I DL from itunes, when I login on her side of the computer.
I want to be able to share this music, authorize it on the IMAC and on MY MBP.
Where are MY playlists stored? Is that still in my users itunes folder?
There is a bunch of music in MY itunes folder, it looks like Duplicates of a lot of stuff that is on the shared folder. Why would this be?
Is this the best way to share an itunes library?

See if this helps: iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer

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Hans Henrik,
I am not sure what article recommend you create a folder called iTunes.
Typically, the iTunes folder is created by the iTunes installation.
Where did you create the folder?
Was it on a local drive or and external drive?
Again, typically it should exist in My Music.
See these articles for information for the what and where on the files iTunes handles:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93358
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93732
Did you search for and/or find songs anyplace on your drive(s)?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1364
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1. Figure out which library is larger, and start with that one. I'm going to guess it's Mom's. Log in as Mom.
2. In the Finder, make a folder called /Users/Shared/Music.
3. Move the folder ~/Music/iTunes (that's your iTunes library) to /Users/Shared/Music/iTunes.
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6. At this point, check your work: start iTunes while still logged in as Mom. Mom should see her iTunes library, just as before, as if it had never been moved.
7. While still logged in as Mom, go to /Users/Shared, select the Music folder, and give Mom and Dad read and write permissions on that folder and all its contents.
8. Log out as Mom, and log in as Dad. In the Finder, move Dad's iTunes library from ~/Music/iTunes to the Desktop.
9. As Dad, repeat steps 4 and 5.
10. Now Dad should check his work, by starting iTunes. Dad should now see Mom's library instead of his own.
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But Dad's content is still in ~/Desktop/iTunes. You'll have to add it to your shared libary:
11. Log in as Dad, and in iTunes, turn on the preference iTunes->Preferences->Advanced->Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library.
12. Still in iTunes, choose File->Add to Library and start adding all the files in ~/Desktop/iTunes. They'll be copied from Dad's desktop into the shared library. Try importing a couple of tracks, and log in as Mom and confirm that both Mom and Dad see the imported content. (I myself have never done this, so I can't give you much guidance about importing, since I started our iTunes library as a single shared library from the very beginning. For all you know, you can just select every folder in ~/Desktop/iTunes and import everything at once. I would imagine you might have to futz around re-organizing everything nicely once you've imported all Dad's stuff, but once that's done, it's done.) Once everything is imported you can trash ~/Desktop/iTunes.
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