Two libraries on one computer??????

How can I have two seperate accounts w/ two seperate libraries on one computer?? SOMEONE HELP ME

You will probably have to use two different Windows user accounts for their particular iPod. I don't think you could have two different accounts on the same Windows user account.
And each account to there account/iPod, as well. This may be tricky, but can be worked out. But two user windows user accounts is probably a necessity in this kind of thing.
By the way, do you have two iPods, or are you just wanting to have two different iTunes accounts?

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Launch iTunes with the Shift key held down and either create a new library or choose the one on the external drive. Any rented movies downloaded from another computer won't play.
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Can you run iTunes twice on one computer? Run two libraries on one compute

My roommate and I both have iPods and share a computer but we have vastly different tastes in music. How can we both have our own iTunes libraries on one computer?

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Having two libraries on one computer

I have account with my sister and we have all our songs on one library. How can we make it two so we don't have the same songs?

Niel's suggestion certainly works - it's how I run multiple libraries on my computer (although there are at least two other methods). This way you only have one copy of each song on the computer, and each user can select whether or not to import it into their own library.
One further suggestion I'd make (from experience!) is to create a dummy music file in your library (just pick any track or file of small size) and rename it "00 Eric's Library" - ie, one appropriately-named file per library - then, if you sort your library by filename this will always be at the top, so you can tell at a glance that you're in the correct library (not always obvious if you share lots of music); although iTunes warns you before doing so, you can end up in a real mess if you accidentally synch your ipod to the wrong library!

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Whenever I try to enable iTunes Match in the latest iTunes beta, it says "This computer is already associated with an Apple ID." I cannot proceed with scanning my library. In the other account, with their Apple ID, it works.
There are two user accounts on our Mac. Does this mean that iTunes Match is linked to the device itself, and not the unique Apple IDs/user accounts? This means in a family that shares a computer, with unique and separate iTunes libraries within each user account, only one person in the family can use iTunes Match (but strangely, both can pay for it).
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I wonder if the following would work...
For both accounts and itunes libraries, use the same apple id.   This should work on the same machine.
Unfortunately, that means the libraries between the two accounts would 'merge' oncd match does its thing and be the same under that one id in the cloud.
For purchases, one of the accounts would have to sign in with their ID in the apple store which would log them out of match. Logging out of match means you only have access to the files you have downloaded from the cloud or where already in the library.    I think your purchased music would be fine and once downloaded to the library, when you log back into match would be picked up and placed in the iCloud library.
From what I can guess, you would have to be stuck with one shared library and this may not be what you want.
They didn't really make match to be a shared among accounts and instead locked it to the machine - probably because of the music licenses. With purchased/drm music and video thouugh, they can be shared across 5 appleid's. Very confusing. You have 10 devices on one id for match and auto/redownload of purcahses and you have 5 appleid's you can share content with.
I've got 4 machines, 5 apple id's, and one match account so far. Only two machines are using match so far (mine and a server), and just using homesharing for the others for now.   Maybe when I'm bored I'll try to see if there is a way to activate match on all the other machines and also work with the other non-match Apple ID's. In a way, home sharing may be easier for the users of those ID's to pull from the master library matched from the server.

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Hey i was wondering if its possible to make two libraries on one Computer. Im on my laptop and my mothers songs are on here from her ipod and mine are on my desktop. Is there a way where i can keep her itunes songs on there and some how put my songs on there too without them both getting mixed in with each other

Sure thing,
just click on the iTunes icon, immediate (and I really mean immediate ) hold down the Shift-key. You will see the option to shift between 2 libraries or to make a new one. Chose to make a new library and follow the instruction on your screen.

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can you access and store two itunes libraries on one computer?

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HT1451 If I have two iTunes libraries on one computer, how do I know which one is opening when I click on the iTunes icon on the desktop?

If I have two or more iTunes Libraries on one computer, how do I know which one is opening when I click on the iTunes icon on my desktop?

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HT202213 Two Itunes libraries on one computer. Any way to share content between the two libraries?

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