Just to provide an update ... Brad at Apple very quick;ly sorted me out and it seems connected with some weird account to which the songs were registered. All is now well.
What concerns me though is why it happened. Songs that I'd been playing fine for 6 years suddenly became unplayable. The other thing I did that I didn't mention originally was that I'd loaded and played around with Aperture 3 Trial. This wiped all my photos synced to my iPod - because it changed library - and that may have some bearing ... Regards, Stephen On 19 Feb 2010, at 10:49, [email protected] wrote: > Hi all, > > Something weird going on... > > Originally my iTunes a/c was registered against an email of > [email protected]. When I took out my .Mac a/c that was changed to my > new email. > > I have just downloaded a trial of Aperture 3 and to download it I logged in > as the Admin user. My iPod was still plugged in on my normal user's a/c and > it said that it was "in use on another computer" or something so I cancelled > iTunes and ignored it. > > At some point later, as my normal user, I launched iTunes or plugged my iPod > in or something and iTunes went to sync it. Then (I think!) it came up with a > dialog saying that it needed to authorise my computer or it would zap all of > my iPod touch applications from my iPod. Surprised (to say the least!) I > typed in my current Apple ID and password. It seemed happy with that but then > came up with another dialog telling me that my computer wasn't authorised to > play 288 tracks and I had to authorise it or they would be deleted from my > iPod. > > Now the first track it lists is the very first song I ever downloaded from > the iTunes store with the 'elemental' a/c mentioned earlier. I suspect all > 288 tracks were downloaded under that a/c. When I chose to authorise it, the > ID it suggests is [email protected]. This account no longer exists and I > have no idea what the password was anyway. If I Type in my current ID and > password it tells me that my computer is already authorised but then tells me > again that my 288 songs will be zapped if I don't authorise it. > > So, it seems that I will not be able to sync any new stuff to my iPod and > that I can only seem to resolve it by entering a forgotten password to an > Apple ID which no longer exists!! Problem. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might resolve this conundrum or do > I take a trip to my friendly Apple store? I suppose I could export all 288 > tracks as MP3 files, delete them all from iTunes and then re-import them as > non-protectd files but that seems a bit tedious to say the least ... > > All suggestions gratefully appreciated. > > > Cheers, > > Stephen > You never get a second chance to make a first impression - Unknown -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
