Share music Library with 2 itunes users???

There are two people who use the same iMac - can we both have our iTunes looking at the same music library.... So all of our songs are combined in the library but we can use our seperate log in details and seperate iTunes. Dont really want to have to upload everything twice to each user..... Thanks

Thanks - I dragged itunes music folder to the shared folder from the first user and that was ok, however it says do this for every account, when i try it it says folder called itunes music already exists do you wish to overwrite, which i dont as id loose all the songs from the first user..
I seem to want to mix the songs together and both look at the same folder from our separate itunes accounts...

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