Same Mac - Two Users - Two iPhones

My wife and I have a MAC with different profiles and we both have an iPhone. Is there a way for us to share our music purchases (like we can do if we bought a CD or DVD) without having to purchase items twice?
We would both like to listen to our music on our iPhones similar to sharing music in our house on our children's PC from our MAC.
It is one household for use on personal devices - a DVD license allows us to use the DVD in our player plus make copies for playing on a Mobile device within our household so why wouldn't we be able to do this within iTunes as well?

You shouldn't have any problem. Just sign in with the same iTunes account on both, yours and your wife's accounts, and it will allow you to copy purchased songs or apps, or ask if you want to download a free copy of an app that you already bought.
Sharing the music library is a little tricky. iTunes always keeps its essential files in the same location (user-music-iTunes) no matter where you store the actual songs/library, which means both accounts will have separate library files, so I am not sure if it will work when you move the library into the shared folder: it might not automatically update the database on both accounts when you add or delete a song. I don't know if there is a workaround, someone will most probably chime-in if there is.

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