Shared libraries AND private music folders?

I have had my iTunes set up using a Shared folder for about three years now with great success being shared across 4 users on one Mac. Each user has their own iTunes folder and their own iTunes library. The iTunes Music folder is an alias (link) back to a folder by the same name in my Shared user account. As content gets added, I periodically run "Add to Library..." from the other accounts to pick up the new content.
Now enter a maturing high school freshman daughter who needs to add a whole bunch of stuff I don't want access to. Namely, she has Berlitz German and Spanish language CD's that provide THOUSANDS of words - each as a separate audio track and each with a photo of that word stored as Album Artwork. So now, not only do I have thousands of 2 second tracks such as "pero" and "nacht", but my Coverflow has thousand of pictures of these objects. In addition, she has also started using GarageBand to make her own music, which also makes it's way into my previously pristine and well-managed shared Music Library.
So, the question is, how can I allow a user to have BOTH read/write access to Shared Music Folder, AND have access to private Music folders within their account?
Thanks for the suggestion

No, but you can make a second copy of the song file, and have each library only see its own.

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My son and I share the same iTunes library on an external drive. Each of us has his own library (.itl) and xml files located in our home folder/music/itunes pointing to the external drive for the physical files.
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No, but you can make a second copy of the song file, and have each library only see its own.

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You could either remove the iCloud account altogether and have him create his own or go into settings->store-> and switch automatically download Apps off. And go into icloud and turn off photostream. Depends on what you prefer.

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Yes, you can use multiple libraries. The directions are here:
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Managing two folders the way you want to do it, is not possible in iTunes itself.
There are 3rd party scripts and applications that might do it, for example iTunes Library Manager.
If you like to have both formats available at the same time, you could do next:
Import all CDs in Apple Losless.
Take care that all info is the way you like; if you convert them, you have to correct wrong info twice.
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I don't care about what's all in the library; it's the main container for my multimedia.
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My C Drive is getting bogged down. I would like to switch both the iTunes application including full library, and all my music folders from my C drive over to a new internal hard drive ("F").
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And, 2. How will iTunes know that now all the songs are there? I mean, doesn't it look for their path as in the C drive? Will the path on all songs automatically change to list "F" instead of "C"? Do I have to manually change each song's path?
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Chris -
OK. I get it. That iTunes folder stays on C. I just have to get over it, right?
So, should I eliminate that same iTunes folder from my F drive? Obviously, the libraries should stay on F (or it that not obvious?).
So, now let me pick your brain on my second question....
My understanding is that all of my music is stored in folders ("My Music" for example). They are located both on my F drive (my songs) and the C drive (my kids' songs). I want all music folders on my F drive - both mine and my kids'.
I've moved individual songs from C to F, and when iTunes goes to play them, it'll say - "Hey, I can't find this song anymore", and I'll have to click Browse and click on the new location (in F) so that it sees the song is there.
So, if I move the entire folder of kids songs to my F drive, will the individual song location paths change from C to F? Or will iTunes totally freak out, trying to locate everyone one of their zillions of songs?
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