Should we share itunes store account if we use home sharing?

Right now, my children and I share an itunes store account, but it is getting hard to manage their itunes gift cards this way. Should I just bite the bullet and have them each get their own account? How will this affect home sharing? Do we just have to authorize multiple itunes store accounts on all the computers or does that even matter now that the content is no longer copy-protected. I only have some copy-protected items on the one original account and it is quite a bit of money to upgrade them so I would rather not do that. How would this work with syncing devices?

No home sharing does not delete anything. It does exactly what it says it does, it shares your music library with others and vise versa. I use it all the time in my home, and works perfectly. All it does is wirelessly adds music to your music library that you are able to play. Do you need help setting up iTunes Home Sharing?
Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with,
Cheers,
Allen

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as many as you can other computers with itunes accessing the shared ituned lib
likely the limitation is the network bandwidth more then number of connected devices

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I have an iPad which I need to sync with several (actually 8) different Macs around the country. This is the nature of the work I'm doing at the moment. I plan to set all 8 Macs to the same iTunes Store account. I don't need to authorise them to play music or video, but I do want to be able to transfer content and apps I purchase so that I can backup the iPad whichever office I happen to visit. If I purchase an app in one office, presumably I can download it again for free on any of the other Macs should I need to. Understand that this is purely so that I can sync and backup in multiple locations without losing my apps or content.
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What is not yet clear is quite how the new rules square up with the old rules that one account can be authorized on up to five computers and up to five accounts authorized on any one device.
Unless I'm much mistaken I think you can backup an iPad/iPhone on any computer running iTunes without authorizing it to any of the individual accounts that may have been used for purchased content on it first, although transferring purchased content from the device to the computer does require prior account authorization.
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HT4137 I have two iPad's that use the same iTunes/store account. I want the two devices to play games with with other, but it recognizes them as the same. I have set up two different iCloud accounts, but still not recognizing the users as different. What

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Thank you for your reply. Using your suggestion I was able to authorize the computer but I still needed to find a way to remove restrictions on the music (DRM?)
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You probably could have told me this but I wasn't able to communicate what I really needed to do. It's difficult to address a question you haven't been asked!

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We could not complete you iTunes store request. An unknown error has occurred (5002).
There was an error in the itunes store. Please try again later.
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so I end up with just ONE iTunes store account that my wife and I share.
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