Multiple iCloud accounts on one computer

We would like to have two icloud accounts on our imac. One for music and other apple purchases, and one for calendars, addresses etc. How would we set that up, both on the imac and on our separate ipads and iphones so we can all access the same itunes info, but keep the other stuff private. my husband has most of the music, but some of it is under my account and my son's. I also need to know how to combine all music under one account (most likely my husband's). Thanks.

To share your purchases and music, you could set up family sharing, and use separate Apple IDs for all other purposes.
See: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201060

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@Sjazbec
I'm having some unexpected issues with aliases and can not wrap my head around it.
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Set up your mac.com account again on devices. Turn off Mail and other data syncing with this account on your wife's devices for data that you want to keep separate. Then set up a second ("secondary") iCloud account on your wife's devices to sync Mail.
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