Multiple Accounts On Same Computer

Ok my brother and I are now going to use the same computer for our iTunes libraries since we found out you can have more than one. I was wondering if we could also have both of our accounts on here so I can buy things on mine and him on his. Any help is appriciated.

In addition to ed2345's excellent advice, you also might want to set your preferences to used a shared folder for the music, so you don't have duplicates of the same song files on one hard drive.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203
Make sure you do what the section *To listen to another account's music files* says:
+Deselect the "Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library file" option.+
Also, since itunes doesn't have a watch folder feature like Windows Media Player does,
+When another user of the computer has imported new music from CD, repeat steps 6 through 8 to add the music to your library.+

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"If you share your computer with other people, you can maintain separate user accounts for each person who uses the computer. This is useful especially if each user has different tastes in music or other media; users can maintain separate, personalized iTunes libraries and can customize their devices' sync settings accordingly."
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Back in 2000 when you bought a DVD you could take this DVD with you to your friends house and pop it in their player and enjoy the movie.
Fast forward to future where no-one wants shiny disc or any other physical medium you go to your friends place and log into your account and watch the movie that way. Simple easy... till the 90 day rule.
I fully understand the logic behind it (protecting their IP), but it breaks the system for legit users. Copyright has always stood in the way of progress. There isn't a single copyright protection on shiny disc that has not been broken. All that engineering effort, time and money and you can download a free app to break it.
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There are many ways to get around the 90 day rule for people that do want to pirate someone elses library, but it does completely block someone who is just trying to use his own purchased media in a legit way. Stupid...
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