Transfer trouble!!

Question

I'm terrible with all this stuff so bear with me!
My sister and I shared an iTunes account for a couple years and have acquired around 2,000 songs (which are on my iPhone and backup cds) during it. She recently went to college and the original plan was for me to set up my own iTunes account with my own Apple ID but with the songs on my Iphone. When I hooked up my phone to my computer and started to transfer my songs, authorization messages popped up for emails I didnt know. So I cancelled the sync and went to my account settings and saw that "one computer is authorized to play content purchased with this Apple ID".
When I try to set up a Homesharing account with my sisters ID it says that the limit of 5 authorized computers have been reached. So basically is there any ways I can set up my own iTunes account with the 2,000 songs and without having to go through Homesharing?

Answer 1

nhnx, if I were you I would use the followingwork-around:
1. Burn the music you have purchased on standard music CDs
[Music CDs are those you can play in a standard old-fashioned music CD player. Maybe you have done this already; you mentioned backup CDs? I know about three ways of back upping (is this an English verb?) in iTunes; let me explain:
(A) you can back up all you media in a special iTunes format on CD /DVD. This is good for rebuilding your iTunes under the same user account (sameApple ID) e.g. after a system breakdown or after migrating to a new computer.
(B) You can do the same much more conveniently using special software like copytrans. It transfers also all iTunes settings, purchased apps, covers, songtexts, bookmarks, etc.
(C) Back up using music CDs, as I propose you to do. With these CDs you are independent from iTunes.]
2. Set up a new iTunes on another computer using your own Apple ID. (I understand that you have started to do this already.)
3. Import the music from those music CDs into this new iTunes.
4. Sync your iPhone with your new iTunes and overwrite the existing music on your iPhone with the “new” music from your new iTunes.
If you are pursuing this way you should beware of the following:
5. If you connect your iPhone with a new iTunes account you can choose whether you want to keep your music, podcasts, audiobooks, contact data, calendar data, apps, photos, bookmarks, etc. or whether you want to sync them with the data from the new iTunes (music, apps, etc) respectively with data from your PC via the new iTunes (contact data, bookmarks, etc.). You can choose for each category separately.
6. If you choose not to sync a category with your new iTunes account it stays connected with the “old” iTunes (the one you shared with your sister). In theory you can sync different categories with different iTunes accounts, e.g. music with one and contact data using the other. But this has close limitations, is a bit tricky, so I can’t recommend this to you. I tried this for good a while but finally centralized all data sync on one iTunes on one notebook.
7. Probably you purchased apps for your iPhone. For free apps you can of cause download again to a new iTunes using a new Apple ID.But as far as I know you can not transfer apps you have paid for to another Apple ID.
8. If you are facing this app issue but your sister not, it might be better if SHE is setting up a new Apple ID and importthe music as described above.
9. Transferring music using music CDs is technically bypassing the digital rights management of Apple. If you mind you might better check, whether this is legal under the law of your country.
Good luck and have fun!