Will itunes allow two ipods to share the same library?

Hello,
My wife is getting an ipod soon and we want to have our entire library on both ipods. Do I need to do anything special or just will itunes just sync our library to both ipods automatically? I really don't want to screw around with multiple users or playlists.
Thanks

No problem. iTunes will recognize each iPod as a separate device. Since you want to have the whole library on each iPod, just plug it in and select your sync options.
If you ever decide you have different tastes in music, here are some options for managing your iPods: How to use multiple iPods with one computer, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1495

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Mac newbie here needs some advice...
I just got a new iMac and have created separate accounts for my husband and me on it. We used to share an apple ID for music, but now I'd like for us to have our own apple IDs especially with the iCloud capabilities I don't want my iPhone stuff going to his Mac account, etc. Problem is that all his music is in my library and he doesn't want to have to re-buy it again. So I figured out that I can share my music library with his account on the iMac, and I have him signed in to iTunes with his separate Apple ID... good so far... but what's going to happen when he buys something? Will it go into my library (as some sort of combined one), or into a separate one?
The other issue I encountered is that when I went to enable automatic synchronization across devices for him, I got a message saying that it was already logged in with another apple ID (I'm assuming it was referring to mine?). That's not good.
I want us both to have totally separate IDs etc, especially for iCloud backups etc, but I wanted to be able to share music libraries. Is that possible? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

If you want to share a single AppleID with a single iTunes Library, then simply sync both devices to that iTunes library using the same user account.
If you want to sync two AppleIDs to one iTunes library, in iTunes on the computer, login and authorize each AppleID, then sync the devices to that common iTunes library in the same user account.
You do not do anything on the device being sync'd itself - it all has to do with how iTunes that you are syncing to is set up and what AppleIDs are authorized there. You can sync multiple devices to iTunes, just be sure that each device gets a unique device name in the iTunes sidebar.
To then use unique AppleIDs for iCloud and iMessage on a iOS device, first, make an iCloud account with the AppleID you want to use (go to http://www.iCloud.com), then set up that iCloud account on the device with that ID and password. In iMessage, just log out with whatever AppleID you are using now, log in with the new AppleID and it will reauthorize, now linking that device with the new iMessage account just created with that AppleID (your iMessage primary account ID is always the AppleID used to initially create and verify the iMessage account).

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I owe one iPod and brought another today, and I just set up the other one. They're both the same model - iPod touch 8GB - and I've set the second one up. I've had the first one for some time, about an year, and I only bought another for a family member. I was wondering why do we need to share the same library and how can we change it. Help would be welcomed since we really like different kind of genres and we disagree on them, so we really really want to change this. I can't even say how much we need to change the setting. Thank you!

Sherlocked, There are a few ways you can solve that problem.
If you do want to share the same library, use the capabililty to "Sync Selected Playlists," so that each iPod will only get the music that its owner wants.
Alternatively, you can set up two separate libraries. This is easiest if you use two different Windows user IDs on the computer. Then each iPod owner can sync to his own library.

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[svn:fx-trunk] 10214: This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList - damageHandler - invalidateDisplaylist - back to updateDisplayList.

Revision: 10214
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-13 07:33:58 -0700 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList -> damageHandler -> invalidateDisplaylist -> back to updateDisplayList. The bug file was for TextArea which is RET but the same bug was in RichText as well.
This example with a renderer exposed it because the typicalItem that is composed to figure out sizes and the actual first item in the list share the same textFlow. It actually has nothing to do with useVirtualDisplay other than it was sharing a textFlow.
It turns out that the TextFlowFactory dispatches damage events every time the textFlow is composed. Unlike when the flowComposer is used, it always considers the flow damaged. It was exacerbated by each of the two components having a damage handler for the same textFlow.
The solution is to use the textFlow generation number. In the damageHandler if the generation is the last known generation number, assume no changes, and return immediately from the damage handler.
QE notes: There are 1 TextArea, 6 TextInput and 2 NumericStepper failuers, with or without my changes. The common link seems to be DispatchKeyEvent. Most were testing maxChar, displayAsPassword and restrict. I tested these and they seem to be working correctly.
Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-23002
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests, TextArea, TextInput and NumericStepper
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Ticket Links:
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Modified Paths:
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Revision: 10214
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-09-13 07:33:58 -0700 (Sun, 13 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
This fixes the problem that if two text components share the same textFlow there is an infinite loop involving updateDisplayList -> damageHandler -> invalidateDisplaylist -> back to updateDisplayList. The bug file was for TextArea which is RET but the same bug was in RichText as well.
This example with a renderer exposed it because the typicalItem that is composed to figure out sizes and the actual first item in the list share the same textFlow. It actually has nothing to do with useVirtualDisplay other than it was sharing a textFlow.
It turns out that the TextFlowFactory dispatches damage events every time the textFlow is composed. Unlike when the flowComposer is used, it always considers the flow damaged. It was exacerbated by each of the two components having a damage handler for the same textFlow.
The solution is to use the textFlow generation number. In the damageHandler if the generation is the last known generation number, assume no changes, and return immediately from the damage handler.
QE notes: There are 1 TextArea, 6 TextInput and 2 NumericStepper failuers, with or without my changes. The common link seems to be DispatchKeyEvent. Most were testing maxChar, displayAsPassword and restrict. I tested these and they seem to be working correctly.
Doc notes:
Bugs: SDK-23002
Reviewer: Gordon
Tests run: checkintests, TextArea, TextInput and NumericStepper
Is noteworthy for integration: no
Ticket Links:
    http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-23002
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/RichEditableText.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/RichText.as
    flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/spark/src/spark/components/supportClasses/RichEditable TextContainerManager.as

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