Two accounts on one computer ? Or one account shared ?

Can anybody help ? We have one computer, I have an iphone my wife has a nano. We dont have the same taste in music. Can we have an account each on the same computer or can we share the same account, thereby still have one account ?
Thankyou for reading.

Hi,
This article explains how to share music across separate user accounts.
[iTunes: How to share music between different accounts on a single computer|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195]

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4108
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An "iTunes account" is an online account you use for buying music, like a bank account. An iTunes collection is the media you see when you open iTunes. Which do you mean?
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You have no idea how happy i would be to be proved wrong on this .. there are loads of posts in the discussion forums saying its impossible. If you can point me to where we are going wrong it would be very much appreciated. This is what we have tried ...
1. Create a 2 iTunes libraries on a single computer login (switching with the ALT key when starting itunes)
2. Create a new user account on the computer, create an iTunes library on each individual login.
In each scenario, the same thing happens. We can
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- Log in to the iTunes store etc with each account.
The problem comes as soon as you try to download a purchased item, ie if I buy a song on my iPhone then try to down load it from the "purchased items" of iTunes account it was purchased under. iTunes gives a message saying that if i download something bought under iTunes Account 2, iTunes account 1 will be disabled from downloading or auto-download for 90 days as "this computer is already associated with an Apple ID"
Should probably have put this into the origianl post for clarity, apologies. i didnt really mean "logged in", we can log in to each iTunes account from the different libraries, but we can use the purchasing or download functionality - hopefully this makes more sense.
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