Sharing music and videos but not mobile apps btw 2 accts on same Mac

My wife and I each have accounts on our Mac. When we sync our iPhones, I want each of us to be able to sync our own music and video playlists (from a common repository) but *keep our iPhone apps separate*. We are kind of doing it now, but I'm not quite sure how (or why) it's working. I made a network share on a NAS box for our iTunes libraries and also a Shared library supposedly for Music.
Can anyone outline a definitive way of organizing the folders in the finder and through iTunes? No speculation please: it's too hard to go back.
Thanks in advance

Hmm... this is a bit technical,
Try posting in the iTunes Match forum, you'll probably find more knowledgeable folks there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

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