What's the best way to share media between iTunes libraries?

I just got my wife her own MacBook, and we definitely want to share media. I know she can set up her own itunes account and we can HomeShare but I am not sure if this is better for some reason than just logging her in with my itunes account. Is it better to separate the mac accounts like this? Put another way, will the macs get 'confused' by having 2 computers driving the same itunes?

Hi,
If you share your media, it is probably best to have just the one Apple ID. If you are using home sharing, you use the same Apple ID. You can use more than one computer with the same Apple ID.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3819
Jim

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