Share 2 itunes account 1 database

Hi,
I'm looking for help on how to share 2 apple accounts.  Its hard to describe in 1 sentence so lets break it down. 
Me - 3 kids - Share 1 itunes account (4 apple id) for apps and music - 4 computers (still windows ), 1 ipad, 1 iphone, 3 ipods
using a NAS to store all the music. 
New Partner - 1 computer, 1 ipad, 1 iphone - has their own itunes account and 1 apple id.
This revolves around just music.  We had 100s of CDs that we have imported etc.  I have copied our songs, then imported them in to the itunes account.  LOL, I am still deleting all the duplicates because we had similar music tastes.  Thats a big task and it worked to duplicate our songs, playlists in each of our own library and on our own computer.
However, we continue to buy songs (which we typically both want) but as you can guess its only in one of accounts.
We don't use iCloud because we are managing our bandwidth usage to avoid streaming - its expensive so we still opt for computer hard drive storage, large ipad storage etc.
What would be ideal is that we could log on with 1 main computer, perhaps log in to 2 different itunes accounts and newly purchased songs are added to a common itunes folder and update libraries.
Is this possible?

Not really, iTunes will only stay signed into one account. As long as you only use one account for purchases everything is straightforward. You can authorize the computers for multiple accounts, and for media that isn't much of an issue. App updates across multiple accounts is less easy. The new Family Sharing system may make everything easier, but I've not tried it out yet.
tt2

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