One computer, two users, two different libraries

We have one laptop with itunes loaded. One user has library with songs and ipod syncd and can transfer songs. The other user mistakingly logged on to the other account on this laptop and bought songs and they show up only on that account,but the ipod is not synced with it.
How can I transfer those five songs to the other laptop user account to be able to download them.Can I transfer one library to another from different user accounts on the same computer?
dell laptop, xp pro.

or can you have more then one itunes account on the same computer

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Hello
My family shares a single Mac via Fast User Switching. We all have separate iTunes libraries. I had some difficulty getting TV to be able to use all of the iTunes libraries as alternate sources for streaming music. I'm posting this here as I've noticed a couple of questions here about it with no solutions.
The symptom is that you are able to add the multiple libraries to TV by entering the passcode in iTunes but when you try to the new source, it fails to load the library. 'Loading <library> name ...' goes on forever or eventually gives up and then the library appears grey in the source list and you have to go through the registration process again. Music sharing appears to work between copies of iTunes running on the same computer.
It's a firewall problem.
It seems that iTunes choose a new TCP port to share each different library. For me it seems to allocate ports in the 4915x range. I can't find any documentation about this. The ports are not listed in the well known list for Apple products. I discovered it because the Windows version of iTunes has an informative error message that tells you to check that a particular port is open in the firewall for the particular library when it fails to load it.
To fix it you just need to open these ports in the Mac's firewall. After that, provided all the users remain logged in with iTunes running, you will be able to stream their libraries.
I hope this helps others to get it working more quickly than I did.
I see that there are some Apple employees participating in these discussions. If you see this, maybe you could modify the documentation? Or add the solution to the How-To pages? I'll submit some feedback anyway.

I wrote a simple shell script that executes each time a user logs in (well, actually, each time I log in, coz' it's not really applicable to other users). It syncs my work and home addressbooks and iCal calendars to one another.
I named it "sync". Then I read somewhere that if you wanted to make it double-clickable (to launch it from the Finder), I appended a ".command" filename extension (so it's now named "sync.command"). I also did a chmod 755 to that file so that it had execute privileges. Depending on whether you give each user their own copy of this thing, or keep a single copy in, say, the /Users/Shared directory, you may have to play around with chmod. Whatever, just so long as the user that has just logged in has execute permissions to the file, and to the entire path to the file, you should be good.
Then, in SysPrefs > Accounts > Login Items, I added that "sync.command" file to the list. So, really the only difference is I'm not wrapping mine inside an Automator script like you are.
I had tried adding it to ~/Library/LaunchAgents and make a launchd plist for it, that would kick it off at login. But I didn't get that to work. Don't know why. But just adding the double-clickable executable unix script to the Login Items list did the trick. Whether the plist has to hang out there with it, I don't know. I still have it there, though, in case I ever get motivated to figure out what's wrong with my launchd plist file. So, if just adding it to the Login Items list doesn't do it for you, you could try making a (functional?) launchd plist for it and plopping them both in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, too. That's how I am now, and, like I said, it launches at user login as that user's process (not as a root process like the above referenced article said how login hooks worked -- although, you may want it to run as root since you want this to work with multiple users...in which case, you might want to listen to Cole and not me...).

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i have two users with different music on each itunes and i can only use one library, how do i use both for one iTouch?

Chris, I believe this link may have the information you're looking for. Welcome to discussions!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432

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Hi dbricetyler,
Welcome to the Apple Support Communities!
If you are trying to move the iTunes Media folder from two different computer user accounts to a single user account on your new computer, there are several different ways you can accomplish this. Please read over and use the following article as a reference to help you accomplish moving the content over to your new computer.
iTunes: How to move your music to a new computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Have a great day,
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You do not need two accounts to have two libraries
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Ive recently bought my wife and iPhone 4, and we have a shared library. But she clearly downloads her own apps and music choices direct from the store to her phone, so wants to maintain her own log in etc. How can I share the library in my iTunes on my log in on the same PC to her iTunes on her log I'm on the same PC. its windows Xp machine with latest itunes version.
Ive followed the online instructions for sharing thus far, and the share library does not appear in either iTunes. ie It aint working!
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When you say you have a shared library... you mean you have a networked external hard drive that you are sharing?
In iTunes, generally...when the term Shared Library is used, it's speaking to sharing a specific computer's library over the network with different computer.
I would think it would be better to do what ya'll have been doing (one log in acct/one computer) and have her create her own Apple acct and each of you log in and out whenever purchasing music apps etc. and then setup individual playlists and pick specific playlists to sync with each individual iPhone.
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You can either add an additional Palm device to the single account you likely share on this one computer, or you can create a second Mac OS X user account on your computer and synchronize the second Palm device with it.
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I assume that you each have an iTunes folder in your own Music folders. This will contain iTunes lIbrary.itl - the library database - an iTunes Music folder which should be empty as you have all your music in shared music.
Also I assume you have your music folder in your shared music folder and all your music is there.
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Now move the folder containing your music folder into your iTunes folder so it replaces the one you deleted/moved. Rename it "iTunes Music" if that is not already its name.
Now do a shift key start. Hold down the shift key and start iTunes. Keep holding the shift key until you are prompted to choose/create a library. Select choose and navigate to the iTunes folder in Shared Music and choose iTunes Library.itl.
Check to see if it has worked.
Repeat the shift key start for the other user to connect to the shared library.
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You can try the "help" button if you like. I think it's still active.
I'm somewhat surprised at the likelihood of confusion you anticipate - the folks synching using the wrong accounts. I guess it's just me - being signed in to someone else's account is something that would simply never occur in my world. Some folks are just not as attentive to details, I understand.

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Does this mean we cant use iTunes on the same computer? I am so confused, I dont know **** about computers and I dont understand what is going on..
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