Q: Family iTunes match
My family members all have separate apple IDs. Could we pay for one iTunes match service? We don't want to pay $125 a year.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012 10:54 AM
Alright, I think I understand your question and I will say yes and no.
First if all of your family makes purchases with the same apple id then yes you can all use the same itunes match.
If everyone signs in under a different apple store id to make purchases and that is the way you want to keep it then no you cannot share.
I have found this out to be correct by playing with this exstensively.
I have a close friend that I share music back and forth with and I wanted to share my itunes match with so we could easily share our music. When I signed his phone in under my store and then turned itunes match on everything was fine, but when I went back to general>store and signed him back out to make sure that he paid for things with his credit card then it automatically signed him out of match.
The only way for another individual to share your itunes match is for them to keep their itunes store id signed in to the same as the one linked with match and all purchases from that device (included, books for ibook, apps from the appstore and anything else itunes store related) will have to be made with that store id. If you sign out at any time and sign into another account IT WILL delete the match out of the device wether computer or ios device.
My wife and I use the same store id but use different icould ids and we share match.
But Her phone and my phone is signed into the same store id and we make all purchases from that id.
I didn't want my buddy making purchases with my id so He had to pay and set up his account for hiself.
If your family members all use the same computer but all use different store id's for purchases you will not be able to use the same computer and have different match accounts on the same computer. If you sign your computer up with a match account then that computer is linked with your match account and if you try to sign into another match account it will give you a message saying that you will not be able to sign into another one for 90 days or do any kind of downloading from another for 90 days.
Apple set this up to keep people from SHARING/PIRATING files by letting mutiple match accounts be run from one computer.
I know that it's frustrating when you have mutiple family members that use that same computer but different store id's but you have to sacrifice somewhere if your going to share or you'll all have to pay the 25 dollars and all sync your match accounts on different computers unless I'm missing a work around for this.
Unless your a Mac user and have parrelles then you can do it, but it is a little more complicated.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012 2:18 PM