My wife and I each have our own Apple ID's. Can we share music we purchase with each other?

First, Check this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1203

Cheers!

newagemac wrote:

With the new iCloud, I keep seeing people wondering how they are going to be able to keep sharing purchases among their family members using one Apple ID since the way iCloud works encourages you to have your own.

The problem is, people think to share purchases among their family members they have to use a single Apple ID.That is not true at all.

If you set up Home Sharing in iTunes, you can share purchases among family member computers and devices that are using different Apple IDs. Many people don't understand that although Home Sharing requires you to use a single Apple ID to connect everyone, all of your family members can continue to use their OWN Apple IDs in iTunes and in their iDevices. The Home Sharing account just links up multiple different Apple IDs for you.

Edited to Clarify: Home Sharing among family members with different Apple IDs is NOT limited to just music. You can share purchased apps, books, tv shows, movies, etc. too. Basically anything in your iTunes library. And that includes sharing iOS apps.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1167264

It would seem as though it does work with different IDs.

I believe so.. This is an anti-theft service that is put in place in an attempt to detur users from redistributing content. If you have good intentions (like transferring music or apps to your wife) then they figure you can wait 90 days. Sorry.

Are you and your wifes itunes on different computers?

Then Home Sharing works as advertised

1) Authorise each others machine with the other persons Apple ID (Store > Authorise this computer) This will not affect playing of any existing content but will allow you to play the other persons content once it is on your machine.

2)File > Home Sharing > Create Home Sharing. Enter the same Apple ID for BOTH computers.This is essential

3) When you have created the home share you can click on the other persons library shown about halfway down in the Left Hand Sidebar ( View > Show Sidebar)

4) Select what content you want to copy and click the Import button bottom right. It only activates when you have made a selection

5) final step if you want to enable automatic copying of new music, movies whatever click on the settings button and select what categories you want to automatically transfer new purchases for

If you and your wife are using the same computer with different logins. Then this may help

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4620

Your wife should be able to see allthe content she wants to see in her itunes. Will they play on the Computer?

Turning off the itunes Match can result in imported CD content turning up sooner.

Sorry I was only talking about while you import the CD or content. Once on your machine turn it on and it will copy upto the cloud so you could download onto devices etc.

By the way you did not mention this before in the thread so I apologise if my answer was misleading.

Wifi sync is just being able to sync from itunes on your computer without the USB cable

PNB64 wrote:

Hi Steve

Not sure how....I thought iTunes Match was needed for music to automatically update in IPad from the cloud.

The way I understand it is that when you buy a song, the iTunes store / App Store automatically pushes it to all of the devices registered to the same Apple ID, therefore when you buy a song, it triggers the download on all of the similar devices. The problem HERE is that you are attempting to go from ID to ID, which there is a 90 day wait period.