Two iTunes accounts on Macbook, but syncing music to two iPhones from one?

My wife set up her iPhone up on her account on our Macbook, but all of our music is in my account. i want to put music on her iPhone, but iTunes warns that all content on her phone will be lost if add music manually. She has no music on there, but has apps. Will they be erased? if so, is there a way around this. I don't want to copy all of the music over to her account as that would, it seems, double the HD space used...

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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