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Q: 2 itunes match accounts on same computer

My wife and I just purchased our first iMac (yay us).

We set it up with 2 user id's, both administrator, and began personalising our profiles.  She set up her music match on her profile and I discovered that when i logged in under my profile and tried to do the same with my seperate account music match account that I could not.  I got a message saying that the device was already associated with another music match id.  What can I do, I would have thought that it would be a relatively simple thing to associate two seperate accounts with two seperate profiles, not so I guess.

 

Any and all help would be appreciated.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 24, 2013 10:48 AM

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  • by judysings,

    judysings judysings Jun 26, 2013 12:22 PM in response to dpscannell
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    Jun 26, 2013 12:22 PM in response to dpscannell

    Hi dpscannell,

     

    Welcome to the Support Communities ... and congratulations on the purchase of your new iMac.

     

    iTunes Match can only be applied to one Apple ID on one authorized computer.

     

    iTunes Store: Subscribing to iTunes Match

     

    It sounds like your best bet to access all of the music between your two user accounts is to use Home Sharing.

     

    Understanding Home Sharing

     

    I hope this information helps ....

    Have a great day!

     

     

    - Judy

  • by Tom Von Lahndorff,

    Tom Von Lahndorff Tom Von Lahndorff Nov 21, 2014 2:59 AM in response to dpscannell
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    Nov 21, 2014 2:59 AM in response to dpscannell

    I have this exact same issue. I think it's appalling that Apple would allow this to happen.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Nov 21, 2014 3:05 AM in response to Tom Von Lahndorff
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    Nov 21, 2014 3:05 AM in response to Tom Von Lahndorff

    Have you considered moving to Amazons music service as you are 'appalled' by Apple's ?

  • by Tom Von Lahndorff,

    Tom Von Lahndorff Tom Von Lahndorff Nov 21, 2014 4:08 AM in response to Csound1
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    Nov 21, 2014 4:08 AM in response to Csound1

    I use multiple services including Amazon. I also have a right to find something appalling without being mocked. Thanks for your valuable contribution to this discussion.

  • by Bobsax,

    Bobsax Bobsax Dec 8, 2014 4:05 PM in response to Csound1
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    Dec 8, 2014 4:05 PM in response to Csound1

    Thanks for suggesting this I' think I'll try the Amazon music cloud

  • by alligatorsbite,

    alligatorsbite alligatorsbite Aug 22, 2016 11:25 PM in response to dpscannell
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    Aug 22, 2016 11:25 PM in response to dpscannell

    I've been having this same issue and after searching around for ages have finally figured out how to do this! If you  set up the payment information on both apple accounts to the same credit card, it will let you authorize on both admin accounts. This seems a bit arbitrary, though I suppose they want to ensure it's truly from the same family(?) Either way I wish this had been made more clear.

     

    I'm not sure if this will matter, but for the sake of thoroughness: I updated the account that was presently registered to the computer (my husbands) and changed his credit card information to my own (which was listed on my un-working apple id). Once I updated his payment information to my card info, I could then switch to my computer account and authorize the iCloud library!