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cz9h3d

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Nov 10, 2009
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Is there a "simple" way in which to manage music in a share library, with multiple computers, when you have multiple iTunes accounts in the household? Just bought my daughter an iPod Touch, so of course I created a new iTunes account for her. I already keep all media in the "shared" folder, so it can be accessed from the multiple accounts on my iMac. Also have a MacBook Pro, so I'm flirting with using Home Sharing - but of course I'm unsure how that will work across multiple iTunes accounts.

Sometimes it just seems that in Apple's quest to make things easy, I continue to run into issues. I certainly don't want my kids using my iTunes account - when they want music or apps, I'm not going to log in for them and/or give them access to an account with my credit card linked to it! But it just seems to be "messy" as soon as you want to actually use multiple accounts (on the computers and in iTunes).

Ah well...they probably don't have much interest in all my 80's and 90's music anyways....
 
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