My 2 children share an itunes account. now that they are older and receive lots of itunes gift cards, it's very difficult for them to each redeem cards fairly! how do i set up separate accts

Question

can anyone tell me how to go about setting up a separate account for one child without messing up the original account?  or can anyone give suggestions about redeeming gift cards so each child does not have to keep track of the others purchases.  its' causing a lot of stress around here and potential inequity.  my daughter wants her own acct.  i assume i would set that up under a separate email and will she lose everything?

Answer 1

You will indeed need another email address, but you just then set up the account as you did your current one. You can use your daughter's gift card to set up the account. I'd suggest you give each child his/her own user account in Windows, if you haven't already. That will give them each their own iTunes library and keep each child's purchases completely separate.
As to the existing content, once you've set up the user account for your daughter, just copy the content you want your daughter to have from your current iTunes library to a shared location (either on the computer or on removable storage such as a USB flash drive or an external hard drive), log into your daughter's user account, launch iTunes, and drag the content into the iTunes window. Then just authorize that copy of iTunes to that iTunes Store account (Store menu -> Authorize) and she'll be able to continue to play and sync that content. Log her into her own iTunes Store account for future purchases.
Regards.