One Mac, one User, one library, two Store accounts possible

Is it possible to buy with two different store accounts?
It's one user on the computer, one Music library but I would like to shop for my daughter without adding another account. She's on an imac G3, so I can't fill her iPod nano there.
Joachim

Hi Joachim,
Yes, you can create two or more accounts to use on the same computer at the same time. For example, in my case, I have one US and other Portuguese account.
Just make sure you authorized your computer to play content from both accounts.
Hope this helps!

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When I set up my iMac I used one of two iTunes accounts I have, I now need to change it to the other one......any ideas?! Thanks in advance

When I set up my iMac I used one of two iTunes accounts I have, I now need to change it to the other one......any ideas?! Thanks in advance

Hi Pompey Woody,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If you need to use a different Apple ID (iTunes Store account) with iTunes on your Mac, you can sign out and then back in with the other account:
Open iTunes. ...select Store > Sign Out, then select Store > Sign In and enter your current Apple ID.
These steps are found in this article:
Apple ID: What to do after you change your Apple ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5796
You may also find the information in this article helpful:
Using your Apple ID for Apple services
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4895
Best,
Jeremy

One library, two users question

Hopefully I can explain this clearly. My wife and I share our macbook and we each have our own user accounts. In my account I have an itunes music library. (My account is the administrator account btw.) While she is logged into her account and using iTunes, there doesn't seem to be anyway for her to play songs in the music library in my account. From my account, I've tried to set up sharing the music library folder. I've also tried to point her itunes preferences to my library but the folder is blocked with a red slash. Is there some way for her to play songs in my library while logged into her account?

The iTunes sharing preferences are for sharing music on several computer across a network.
To allow different user accounts on the same computer to use the same iTunes library, the iTunes folder has to be in the Users -> Shared folder.
This shows you how: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/How-To-Share-An-iTunes-Library-Among-Several-U sers-Video

One library, two Macbooks...

Hi all! First off, thanks for your time and support! Now on to my question...
I was wondering what is the optimal way to share an iTunes library between multiple Mac computers?
Here's some info:
On the same network at home, my wife has 1 Macbook, I have 1 Macbook and 1 Mini. How can we share our library without putting all our songs, etc. on to each Mac individually? My Macbook only has a 60 gig drive and I have about 50 gigs worth of music. We have a NAS on our network too. I tried changing "iTunes Media Folder Location" (under Preferences) to the NAS but if my wife adds music to the library, it's not in my library, and vice versa. I have to actually re-import everything on my computer to get any additions to show up! That can't be the right way to do it! I was hoping I could use the same "fix" you guys could give me for our iPhoto libraries as well, but that's a different thread, right? Someone please help!
Thanks!

you need to copy the entire iTunes folder (not just the iTunes media folder) to the NAS, then, on each Mac, launch iTunes while holding the option key, click on +choose library+, and select the iTunes folder you copied to the NAS.
only one instance of iTunes @ a time can access the library but changes made on one Mac will be available on the other(s) right away. also, if you and the wife use different iTunes store accounts to purchase stuff, iTunes on all Macs needs to be authorized for both iTS accounts.
finally, you need to make sure the NAS is mounted on the desktop before launching iTunes on either Mac.
JGG

My wife and I have seperate itune accounts, but want to merge them into one account or at least merge our seperate purchases into one library. Is this possible?

Basic problem...my wife has her own iTunes account which she purchases music with, I have my own that i have been purchasing music with...however, married now as we have similar tastes in music and dont want to be duplicating albums etc.
Was wondering is it possible to merge the two accounts into one account? Or if not, that we carry on purchasing music but have one shared library. Is this possible, any help appreciated.
Thanks

"Was wondering is it possible to merge the two accounts into one account? "
No.
Just put all of your music/apps/etc on one computer/library. Authorize the computer for both ids.

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Now all works fine except the iPad, every couple of days one of the two email account stops receiving email, I'm able to resolve this by deleting and re adding the account.
The email works fine for a day or two then just sits on "checking for mail", needing me to delete and read account.
I have tried a hard reset and reset all settings but none have permantly fixed the problem

So after months of frustration & three visits to the apple store, the 'genius' finally agreed that it was a hardware issue and swapped the ipad over.
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Hi all,
I have a 2010 Mac Pro and have always had my itunes library on a separate internal drive. Recently I noticed my boot drive had been filling up and discovered that mobile apps have started to be stored in the Mobile Applications folder in an identical itunes library folder on the boot drive.
I'm assuming at some point I did an itunes update and it switched over to the default file location, "Music" on the boot drive.
In the itunes preferences my itunes media folder location is still listed as the separate internal drive, not the boot drive. Newly imported music is still going to the designated location.
Please see the attached image. The top panel is from my boot drive, the second is the separate internal hard drive. There's some minor differences in the way the two are organized. For example, in the boot drive "Automatically Add to iTunes" is under "itunes Music", but in the selected location-- the separate internal drive-- "Automatically Add to itunes" is directly under "iTunes".(just an example of one of the small differences in the way the folders are organized)
Again, the bottom panel is my selected itunes folder location from the itunes preferences and where I've always stored my music. The top panel is from the "Music" folder on my boot drive— an iTunes folder that I don't remember creating and where my mobile apps are now going.
Any way to get this smoothed out?
Thanks very much in advance for any help anyone may have

If you set both accounts to store files in the same place this can work. Each user will still have separate playlists, playcounts, etc.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300432
Files added by one user will be available to the other user but must be added to library using add folder or add file option. It is not automatic, there is no iTunes option for it to be made automatic.

One library - Two or more computers

I recently got a NAS device and I'm now running my iTunes library on it. However I have several computers and I would like for them all to use the same libary. I'm not sure if it's even possible, since the files for itunes playlists and such are saved localy?
I don't want just to share my Libary. I want to be able to edit playlists and such from other computers aswell.

As an alternative, and you may find this primitive, but you might be able to remote into your computer, modifying your playlists or the like, from other computers on your home network. If you're running Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 7 Ultimate (not the Home editions or the Starter edition), you can control you machine remotely via "Remote Desktop". And if you've got Macs that you want to connect to your Windows machine via Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac 2. Using these apps, you can log into your Windows 7 machine from another computer, and it looks like you're sitting right there at your Windows 7 desktop machine.
I gather this isn't applicable for you, but Windows machines can connect to Macs using a VNC client (such as VNC Viewer Free Edition). You can also connect from one Mac to another using Screen Sharing.

One iMac, two OSX-accounts and one iTunes Match, how do I get it to work?

I have one iMac to work with and two different User-Accounts for my daily business. I use iTunes-Match and I would like to use it on every User-Account. On the forst Account I already acitvated iTunes-Match succesfully. But on my second User-Account it refuses to work. If I start-up Match in iTunes it compares the files (at least iTunes tells me so) and after that I am back at the beginning, where I shall click "start".
Something doesn´t really work here. Is it because it is impossible to use multiple User-Accounts on a Mac with the same iTunes-ID and iTunes Match? I am not talking about different iTunes-Accounts! I am talking about the same iTunes-Match-Account on two different User-Accounts of Mac OSX

There we go...
On the first user-account iTunes Match is working fine. No problems on that.
What I did on the second User Account:
1. I logg on to the second user account
2. starting iTunes
3. selcting iTunes Match and then "activate"
4. after I enter the corresponding Apple-ID, iTunes Match starts to compare the lokaly saved music with iTunes Match which takes about 10-15mins (Step 1 through Step 3)
5. after that, it shows me the button "finished"
so far so good
If I press the button "Finished" it jumps back to the initial Screen, where it starts over with Step 1
That loop never stops.
So there is something not quite working at all.
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I have two windows user accounts on one computer. Each user has a separate ipod. I want to keep all music files in one place if possible. Currently all music is in iTunes music folder located in shared files. Each user has their own iTunes folder, iTunes music library, and the iTunes library in their directory. I thought each user account would be able to access the shared music files and rate the songs, etc., without disrupting the other users iTunes. Everytime one user uses Add file to library or use Add folder to library, the other user gets a ! next to the song and gets an error saying the song cannot be found do you want to search for it. I cannot figure out how to fix this or if it is even possible. I thought it was by the instructions on the iTunes website: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer. Any information would help thanks.

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One library over multiple accounts-how to

Hello
I was wondering how you can set up an iTunes library so that it can be accessed by any account on your computer.
Would using the shared folder to store the library allow such access? Also, would iTunes automatically find it, or would you have to reassign the library it uses?
My computer currently has no music on it, and the library in question is on an external drive, brought from my old computer (which only used one account). If that makes a difference.

See if this helps: iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer

One or Two ITunes Account? -- Own both iPod Video & iPhone 3GS

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I've just bought an iPhone 3GS (this is my first iPhone, so everything is new to me). I also own an iPhone video, which I bought a couple of years ago. My question is, do I need to set up two different iTunes accounts (i.e. a new a/c for my iPhone, separately from the a/c I've been using for my iPod video)? I cannot imagine using the same account for two different devices... maybe it's possible, I don't know. I have lots of podcast downloads and also movies on my iPod video account. I'm afraid of messing it up. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I have one account and an iPhone, an iPod Touch, and 4 other iPods. iTunes recognizes each as a separate device and I can select the sync options I want for each. I don't do any manual management. I select the playlists I want on each device.
See this Apple article about multiple iPods with one computer: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495

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Technically, yes. You can log out of your current ID and log in with his and them download his past purchases. However you will have to log back into yours when you update your stuff. And when ever you sync it to your computer it will erase his stuff from it.

One Mac, one User, one library, two Store accounts possible

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