Multiple Accounts, one computer, one itunes

I have tried to research this in help without success! I am wondering if my wife, 3 children, and myself can all have our own itunes account, but continue to share all purchases in the same itunes folder, and if this is possible, how is this accomplished. I understand I can make account for my children who cannot get a credit card using a allowance, but can their purchases go into my itunes folder, so my wife or I can also use the music they purchase with their allowance? If any one can help, thank you tons!!

I believe iTunes can only authorize to one account at a time. So it is best to make ALL purchased on the same Apple account. This is not to say that you can not each have your own library and make purchases from your own library. You just need to make sure you authorize each library to the same iTunes account for purchasing.
Although now that I think about it, with ALL iTunes tracks being "Plus" (DRM free) I guess it doesn't really matter any more. Anyway...
There are a few ways for all accounts to use the same downloaded music. One is to simply copy the new tracks from the account that purchased it and then add the track to each library as needed. This will make a new copy in each library so if you guys buy a lot of stuff it could end up being a bit of storage space wasted. Since you would have five libraries I assume, you could end up with 5 copies of each track you buy.
Another is to put the purchase track in a shared folder and then change your iTunes preference on each account to NOT copy to the iTunes folder, add the tracks to your libraries, then change the preferences back. This would make the libraries all use the same media file from the shared folder. But it requires a bit of manual work each and every time you want to add new tracks to all the libraries.
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My wife and I both have iTunes accounts, and we have material, including apps, from both accounts on our main home computer.
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Bleep, bleep, BLEEEEP!
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judge2001 wrote:
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judge2001 wrote:
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merrynightmare wrote:
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