Share music with my husbands ipod

Hi! I hope that someone can help.
I want to be able to share my music with my husband and vice versa. We both have Ipods and we both have itunes on our computers, How can we do this without wiping out my library or his library?
Any suggestions??? We still want to keep our individual libraries intact.

My husband and I share the same computer ...
In that case ...
Unfortunately, the Apple Knowledge Base article about sharing music is a bit confusing.
Basically what you and your husband both want to do in each of your Windows XP accounts is go to the iTunes Edit menu > Preferences > General tab and change the location of the iTunes Music folder to something like Documents and Settings/AllUsers/Shared Documents/Shared Music.
You then each go to the iTunes File menu > Library > Consolidate Library ... option to copy your Library contents to the new location you chose for your iTunes Music folder.
Now you have one common place for your music, videos and such and will be able to add stuff from each other's Libraries by using the File menu > Add File to Library ... option.

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