It can be (mostly) done but it can be painful. I had this problem too and the dealings with Apple to resolve it nearly drove me insane - "Hello, my name is Jarel and it's my pleasure to help you today". Aaarrgghh!
If you know the details of your previous Apple ID you can logout in iTunes, login again with your new user and then authorise your Mac to play it. You can then return to your current account. This method worked a few months back - this has happened three times so far, but sorting it the first and second times were awful. I still have some of Apple's support emails if it may help ... Stephen On 27 Feb 2014, at 14:31, Phil Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > It's a long time since I've set off iTunes to play my entire music library > with "shuffle" engaged. There's so many tracks I'd forgotten about, which is > nice, but I'm also finding quite a few that were bought when my Apple ID was > associated with a different email address (long since unused and password > long since forgotten). iTunes of course says that the computer isn't > authorised to play them. So how do I transfer them to the "new" Apple ID. Is > there any way or do I just have to accept that it's one of those occasions > where Apple shrugs its corporate shoulders and I take the hit? > > Phil > > -- > Phil Ward "It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing." ~ Climate Scientist Elizabeth Kolbert in Field Notes from a Catastrophe -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
