Sharing iTunes with different iCloud accts

My husband and I have an iMac, MacBook, iPad and 2 iPhones. We have a shared Apple ID so that we can share iTunes. We would like to have separate iCloud accounts so that we could use iCloud without our contacts, notes, etc getting mixed together (did that by accident once, big mess). I tried to follow the suggestions in other posts on here about creating a secondary account but it's not really working. I don't want to make this any messier than it needs to be. What's the best way to share music and photos but not everything else? I should mention, we currently share a gmail account for the sake of having a shared calendar
TIA!

iCloud, iTunes, messages, FaceTime and even this community are all services provided by Apple which use an Apple ID to log-in, there is no reason you can't use different ID's with each one. When people refer to their iCloud ID what they really mean is the Apple ID they are using to log into iCloud.
If you and your husband each have an ID, lets say [email protected] and [email protected], you would each use your own ID to log into iCloud, Messages and FaceTime (if you use them) so that everything is separate. However if you have previously used [email protected] to log into iTunes and make purchases, then both of you should use this ID for iTunes, so you can continue to share your purchases.
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settings > iCloud
settings > iTunes & App Stores
settings > Messages
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