2 kids, 2 ipod touches

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2 kids, 2 ipod touches

Hi,

I currently have 2 iphones and 2 ipods in my house. me and my wife have the phones and our children have the ipods. My kids mainly use the ipods for watching tv shows which are downladed from itunes and facetime. I have downloaded several shows already and there memory is pretty full.

Is there a way for them to download shows from one itunes account, and have both ipods be able to retrieve the shows from the cloud, this way they can delete and add shows as they want? i think right now I have them each with there own apple id, and they can only get the shows downloaded from their apple id off of the cloud.

I also want them to be able to have different facetime acccounts as well.

if this is not possible, what are your thoughts on trying to get a external harddrive that can be accessed over the web, and have them watch shows like that? does apple make a product for this?

Thanks,

iPod touch, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Aug 27, 2012 12:54 PM

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Ky C.

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Aug 27, 2012 1:07 PM in response to trevor256

What you want to do is possible but it requires that only 1 Apple ID account is accessed over iCloud therefore consolidating the entire library. I guess you could authorize various devices and computers for several different account and redownload past purchases to every device (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519) But that seems overboard. I thought that iCloud could access hard drives connected to the network, does it not?

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Aug 27, 2012 1:12 PM in response to Ky C.

if i have them use the same apple id, can they have 2 different facetime accounts?

i am not sure if the cloud can access hard drives connected to the network.

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Aug 27, 2012 1:17 PM in response to Ky C.

if i have them use the same apple id, can they have 2 different facetime accounts?

i am not sure if the cloud can access hard drives connected to the network.

my library doesnt consist of many tv shows, how do you consolidate the library to just one apple id, if the purchases were made under 2 or 3 apple ids?

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Ky C.

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Aug 27, 2012 1:20 PM in response to trevor256

Well this is where it gets a little bit more complicated, but the best option that occurs to me is that you consolidate all the music to one library that is accessed by various devices over iCloud (that is what you are currently doing right) And this way you can keep the apple IDs but you need to authorize the different devices so that they can play content purchased with other Apple accounts...

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Aug 27, 2012 1:28 PM in response to Ky C.

ok that sounds good.

All my songs and tv shows are currently on one computer, all in the same itunes. they were purchased across 4 apple id's, but all in one location on my computer. So I believe my whole library is already consolidated?

How do I -

"but you need to authorize the different devices so that they can play content purchased with other Apple accounts..."

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Ky C.

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Aug 27, 2012 1:42 PM in response to trevor256

well you when you are in itunes on a specific apple id account you can try to watch a tv show downloaded by another account and it will ask you to authorize the computer, but here is the default way.

Open iTunes > Sign in (specific apple ID) > Store (on the tab bar up top) > Authorize This Computer

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