Sharing an itunes account with my hubby's new phone

I got my hubby and Iphone a few days ago but have not sinced it yet because I was told that I needed to get him an icloud email account first.  I was told that he and I could share the same Itunes library... is that right?  Please help me through the steps.  Apple care is closed.

Items purchsed through one iTunes account are permanently associated with that account and cannot be transferred. 
Now be careful to be exact when using terminology.  An iTunes account isn't on your computer.  An iTunes account is an Apple ID and purchases at hte online store.  Items purchased are downloaded to your computer but the account is online.  On your computer you have your iTunes library which is a set of links pointing to media and purchases stored on the computer.  Different users of a computer may also have their own user area or computer accounts, each of which may have an individual iTunes library, or can share a common library, or alternatively a common set of media pointed to individual libraries.  You can see why it is essential to be specific in asking questions about his.
If your daughter is now going to start syncing to her own iTunes account through her own library in her own user space you can do a limited amount of file moving.  The media will still be associated with the old iTunes account but as long as she is careful about not misplacing themedia there will be no need to go back through that account.  There's probably a lot more detail but I use an old iTunes and have no devices so I am just reporting on what I have read.

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    You can't currently transfer content from one account to another account. As long as the tracks are on the computer's iTunes that they use/sync to, and your account is authorised on that iTunes, then they should be able to continue to use them.

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    Now be careful to be exact when using terminology.  An iTunes account isn't on your computer.  An iTunes account is an Apple ID and purchases at hte online store.  Items purchased are downloaded to your computer but the account is online.  On your computer you have your iTunes library which is a set of links pointing to media and purchases stored on the computer.  Different users of a computer may also have their own user area or computer accounts, each of which may have an individual iTunes library, or can share a common library, or alternatively a common set of media pointed to individual libraries.  You can see why it is essential to be specific in asking questions about his.
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  • HT1473 My girlfriend and I both have iTunes account with our own music libraries and we want to combine our two libraries into one icloude accounts so can both then access our one shared libary at anytime in the cloud.  How do we do this?

    My girlfriend and I both have iTunes account with our own music libraries and we want to combine our two libraries into one icloude accounts so can both then access our one shared libary at anytime in the cloud.  How do we do this?

    No it is not possible.  Content purchased from the iTunes Store is permanently tied to the account from which it was originally purchased, and Apple does not provide a way to change it.

  • HT4859 I shared itunes account with my daughter, had never synced my phone with computer, synced with computer and chose daughter's phone instead of create new phone, all phone contacts are now gone replaced with daughter's - is there no way to get contac

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    When one or more family members who have been sharing one iTunes account wants to create their own iTunes account can they each upload the music/apps from the shared iTunes on their devices to the new iTunes account? 

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  • TS4097 we have multiple users in our family and multiple devices all sharing one itunes account.  i think we are all synced to one icloud account and it is a nightmare....contacts lost, text messags showing up on multiple devises etc.  how do we fix this?

    We have our family sharing one itunes account.  we have 3 iphones, 2 macbook airs, 2 ipads and 1 mac.  I am not sure how we even got started on the icloud but somehow we did and everything is a mess.  The ipads are showing the text messages, the contacts are all combined, the apps that my duaghter downloads are appearing on all devices.  how do we fix this so contacts are not shared, messages are not shared and apps are not automatically synced to all devises?

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    When finished, to un-merge the data in your accounts you will have to go to icloud.com on your computer and sign into each iCloud account separately and manually delete the data you don't want (such as deleting the other person's contacts from your account, and vice versa).

  • How do i share my itunes account with a second computer

    how do i share my itunes account with another computer in my home?

    There are instructions for setting up home sharing on this page : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620
    If you want to copy your content onto another computer then see this page : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527

  • HT204053 I share an iTunes account with my daughter, I just got an ipad and need to set up with my own I'd for iCloud sync  how can I keep my apps and music?

    I share an iTunes account with my daughter, I just got an ipad and need to set up with my own I'd for iCloud sync  how can I keep my apps and music?

    ColleenMcG wrote:
    You can continue to share the same iTunes account ID with your daughter and set up a separate iCloud account with a different ID.
    => is this a different iCloud account for each device?  I thought iCloud account ID had to match some iTunes account ID, for which we only have one i Tunes account?
    You need to set up a separate iCloud account for each person that does not want to share their iCloud data.  If you share an iCloud account with someone, any data you both sync with the shared account is merged, and you end up with each other's data on your device(s).  If, for example, you owned two devices and someone else in the family also owned two devices, you would both want your own iCloud accounts, and you would each set up your personal iCloud account on the two devices you own.  In other words, you want a separate iCloud account for each person to be used on the devices they own.  Each iCloud account has to have a separate Apple ID.  The ID does not need to be the same as the ID used for iTunes.  Many families perfer to share the same iTunes account/ID, but maintain separate iCloud accounts with different IDs to keep there data separated.
    ColleenMcG wrote:
    It does not need to be the same as the ID used for iCloud.
    => what ID, iTunes?  So I can have a separate iCloud account "only" ID which I also assume must be some [valid] email address?  The children currently do not have email accounts anywhere.
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  • I have an iTunes account with my own music library.  My wife wants to have her own music library.  Is there a way of setting up a sub account for her, or do I have to set of husband playlists and a separate set of wife playlists?

    I have an iTunes account with my own music library.  My wife wants to have her own music library.  Is there a way to set up a sub account for her, or do I have to set up a set of husband playlists and a set of wife playlists?

    Sorry, but that's not possible.
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