Two iphones, two itunes accounts, one Macbook

Hi,
My wife and I each just purchased iphones.  We each have our own itunes accounts,  We share a Macbook at home. 
We would like to share our music and soon our apps so we don't have to pay twice.  Can we do this and if so, how?
Also, I enabled home sharing as our itunes accounts were originally on different computers. Do I chech the option that says "transfer"?
Thanks for you help

Because you have separate accounts, if you try & sync her phone to your itunes account, yes ALL itunes content(including apps) will first be erased from her phone & then replaced with the content from your library.
What you can do is this: Put all of the content you want on her phone on your phone, from your account. Sign in to her itunes account, disable auto sync, under preferences. Connect your phone, DO NOT SYNC, sign your wife out of her account, sign in to your account , Store>Authorize this Computer, then>File Transfer Purchases(all itunes purchased content on your phone will be transferred to her account, music ripped on your own, won't). For music ripped on your own, use a thumb drive to copy to her account. Once finished, sign out of your account, sign your wife back in & sync what you want to her phone.
I should add, you can share apps, music, etc. between each other using this method both ways: you sharing with your wife, her sharing with you. Sharing of content this way is permitted under the EUSLA.

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