Two ipods in the family

I recently purchase an IPOD classic for my husband. I have an IPOD Video. I run a windows xp machine and each of us has separate logins. Obviously we want to share our music. When I log on and open iTunes I have our whole music library showing on iTunes. When he logs on he does not. How can he sync his iPod under his logon and still have access to all of the music we have purchased. I was told at the Apple store that this would not be a problem

I think there's a share folder in Windows OS. You just have to drag and drop your iTunes Folder into that share folder. So every account in the computer will be able to share the contents in that folder. After you do that, Open iTunes and probably iTunes will tell you that it can't find its music. iTunes will either ask you to locate it or you have to go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced. On the top, there's the choice to locate the iTunes folder. Just tell iTunes where the new location is at. That's all.

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