Sharing non-itunes music

I have 100GB of music ripped from CDs. I want them to be available to my iTunes library and my wife's iTunes library.
What is the best way to achieve this? In the past when there was only one iPhone in the household, I would just drop folders in the "automatically add to itunes" folder which worked well, but I'm sure there must be a more efficient way than doing this twice - once for me and seperately for my wife.
I'm happy to recreate both libraries from scratch if necessary (we don't have any iTunes purchased music - just this 100GB).
I'm using Windows 7.
Thanks

I was hopeful I could use home sharing to sync my iTunes libraries,
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I'd have a check through the following user tip instead:
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device

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BiancaTheMan wrote:
I put lots of music that I did not purchase on iTunes (downloaded online) onto my iPad but recently, my whole computer crashed
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4623
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