Sharing iTunes Library & iTunes Match

[macally]

Not really sure where to post this but...

Hope someone can help here.

In our home, my wife and I have a Macbook Pro each, my wife has an iPad and we both have iPhones. My devices are registered under my Apple ID and my wifes under hers.

In our company, we have two iMacs and they are registered under a completely seperate Apple ID.

Basically, what we want to do is store our music on one system (possibly running FreeNas but not yet sure), and then share that library with my iTunes and with my wifes iTunes account. We then want to get iTunes Match (on each Apple ID) to access the music on our phones, etc.

My questions...

1) If we have a central iTunes library that is accessed on both MBP's, is it possible to use the iTunes library on more than one iTunes Match service?

2) If the above is possible, is it possible to access the iTunes Match content on the iMacs in the office even though they have a different AppleID (i.e. can you use one AppleID for the 'system' and a different AppleID in iTunes)? I guess the only issue might be that if we buy apps from the App Store, we'd need to log in with the AppleID for the company.

 

[sbi5ar]

With regards to point 1) you need to point your iTunes on the MBP to a shared location (e.g. NAS drive) and your wife needs to do the same also. The iTunes match service will then do what it does, believing you each own the original material. So this is relatively easy. The problem is when you add something to the NAS drive, it will then need to be manually added to both iTunes accounts (drag and dropping into each iTunes).

2) I'm not sure about this... I do think you can have a system apple ID and an iTunes ID (you can log in and out of the iTunes ID so I'm not sure they'd have this option if you had to use the system ID.

 

[FishFluff]

2) I'm not sure about this... I do think you can have a system apple ID and an iTunes ID (you can log in and out of the iTunes ID so I'm not sure they'd have this option if you had to use the system ID.

This is what my other half and I do. We have separate AppleIDs for our email/calendar/iMessagse/etc and then a 3rd AppleID which we use for store purcahses and which is linked to our iTunes account and iTunes match. That way we can share music but not our emails and texts