i Tunes query

Muppet81

Following getting some helpful advice on this forum, I opted for an iPod nano 8GB and love it. iTunes account set up, loaded with all my music and working well.

My partner now wants an ipod of his own to store his own music selection.

We share an e-mail address. Can we each have our own i-tunes account or will this not be possible with a shared e-mail address? I cannot see any reference to this on the i-tunes help.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Red_Rose_Exile

I would suggest that you set up separate accounts for each other and then share the tracks, as per this page

Muppet81

Hi Red Rose exile

Thaks for your response. In our case, we don't want to share our music. I'm not keen on his and visa versa. We want two accounts so we can keep everyhting seperate but as we share an e-mail address on the PC, not sure if I will be able to download another copy of i-tunes and set it up for someone else

lee634

its not the email account thats important as you only need an account to buy tunes and access the itunes store,

Red_Rose_Exile

Do you have separate WINDOWS user accounts.

Might be the easiest way to deal with the problem, but you might want to read this page

Muppet81

Red Rose Exile - I think we have seperate windows users accounts. When I boot up I have the choice of loading Martin's setting or mine.

Lee 634 - we would both want to be able to buy music so would I think need two accounts

gaming_guy

Muppet81 wrote: »

Red Rose Exile - I think we have seperate windows users accounts. When I boot up I have the choice of loading Martin's setting or mine.

Lee 634 - we would both want to be able to buy music so would I think need two accounts

you dont need two (itunes) accounts.

i have my account and my mum uses it as well. i have not had any problems so far

lee634

gaming_guy wrote: »

you dont need two accounts.

i have my account and my mum uses it as well. i have not had any problems so far

yes but as said in the original post their music tastes are different, so yes two separate email account and itunes accounts would be required

gaming_guy

lee634 wrote: »

yes but as said in the original post their music tastes are different, so yes two separate email account and itunes accounts would be required

i was talking about itunes store accounts.

me & my mum also have completely different music tastes, but we still share an itunes store account over 2 different computers.

rare_stuff

You guys should really be checking out amazon.com's MP3 offerings, they're cheaper than itunes, plus you can copy them to different players once downloaded!

Muppet81

Help! I am getting confused now.

I don't know whether we are seperate Windows users - when I log on I can select from 2 users - Martin and myself. BUT, if I go on to Martin's I cannot get an intenet connection so cannot open i-tunes store. He tells me the connection has never worked, he always uses my settings to access the intenet, never bothers to select himself as a user. Also, when i go in as martin and try to connect to the intenet, I then lose my own connection as well and have to shut down and re-start it to get it back.

I'm terrified of doing something which I cannot rectify.

Ideally I would like to set up a completely new account for him on i-tunes as I know if we try to share one we will end up screwing each others music collection up.

I hate times like this ... I realise how little confidence I have with computers.