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From: Phil Stripling on 12 Mar 2006 16:38 I signed up for .Mac years ago, and I'm letting it go. My wife used the associated iTunes account to download stuff. She's going to sign up her on account, and we want to make sure this doesn't screw up the library of tunes she's already downloaded under the .Mac account details. I have no clue how to figure this out from the Apple site. Any suggestions on where to look? -- Phil Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed The Civilized Explorer | spam and read later. email from this URL http://www.cieux.com/ | http://www.civex.com/ is read daily.
From: Geoffrey F. Green on 12 Mar 2006 16:51 In article <120320061338199492%philip(a)alumni.rutgers.edu>, Phil Stripling <philip(a)alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote: > I signed up for .Mac years ago, and I'm letting it go. My wife used the > associated iTunes account to download stuff. She's going to sign up her > on account, and we want to make sure this doesn't screw up the library > of tunes she's already downloaded under the .Mac account details. I > have no clue how to figure this out from the Apple site. Any > suggestions on where to look? You can keep the same .mac username as your Apple ID even after your ..Mac account expires, and I don't believe they release it even if you choose not to use it. For example, I haven't signed up for .Mac until after the free trial given when it switched over from iTools, and I still use my "mac.com" email address as the Apple ID I use for my iTunes account without problem. Just make sure you change the e-mail address associated with the Apple ID at myinfo.apple.com. - geoff
From: Phil Stripling on 12 Mar 2006 18:47 In article <geoff-usenet2-D1AE29.16514612032006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, Geoffrey F. Green <geoff-usenet2(a)stuebegreen.com> wrote: > I > still use my "mac.com" email address as the Apple ID I use for my > iTunes account without problem. Just make sure you change the e-mail > address associated with the Apple ID at myinfo.apple.com. My apologies for being so confusing. My wife is signing up for her own account after using the .Mac one. We want to make sure signing up for her own account doesn't screw up the library of tunes she's already downloaded. Any suggestions on where to find this out at Apple's site? I can't find it. -- Phil Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed The Civilized Explorer | spam and read later. email from this URL http://www.cieux.com/ | http://www.civex.com/ is read daily.
From: Geoffrey F. Green on 12 Mar 2006 19:44 In article <120320061547028912%philip(a)alumni.rutgers.edu>, Phil Stripling <philip(a)alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote: > In article > <geoff-usenet2-D1AE29.16514612032006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, > Geoffrey F. Green <geoff-usenet2(a)stuebegreen.com> wrote: > > > I > > still use my "mac.com" email address as the Apple ID I use for my > > iTunes account without problem. Just make sure you change the e-mail > > address associated with the Apple ID at myinfo.apple.com. > > My apologies for being so confusing. My wife is signing up for her > own account after using the .Mac one. We want to make sure signing > up for her own account doesn't screw up the library of tunes she's > already downloaded. > > Any suggestions on where to find this out at Apple's site? I can't > find it. I wasn't confused, but now I am. I'll try to clarify. The .Mac account and Apple ID are separate issues. I'm assuming your Apple ID is your .Mac e-mail address. Even if you drop .Mac, you can still use that e-mail address as your Apple ID; going to the above web site, you can change the e-mail address associated with the Apple ID from blahblahblah(a)mac.com to whatever else you want. So long as you still know the password associated with that Apple ID, you can still use music downloaded with that account, no matter what you do from here forward. But you will need to remember that Apple ID (the one with the .Mac e-mail address) and password to keep listening to the music; you can't move it over to another Apple ID account (AFAIK). For example, my Apple ID is geoff underscore green @ mac.com, and even though I don't have a current .Mac account and haven't for years, I still use that as my Apple ID. AFAIK, Apple isn't reassigning .Mac usernames after they've been used. Does this help? - geoff
From: Bill Stevenson on 12 Mar 2006 22:41
On 2006-03-12 18:47:02 -0500, Phil Stripling <philip(a)alumni.rutgers.edu> said: > In article > <geoff-usenet2-D1AE29.16514612032006(a)comcast.dca.giganews.com>, > Geoffrey F. Green <geoff-usenet2(a)stuebegreen.com> wrote: > >> I still use my "mac.com" email address as the Apple ID I use for my >> iTunes account without problem. Just make sure you change the e-mail >> address associated with the Apple ID at myinfo.apple.com. > > My apologies for being so confusing. My wife is signing up for her own > account after using the .Mac one. We want to make sure signing up for > her own account doesn't screw up the library of tunes she's already > downloaded. > > Any suggestions on where to find this out at Apple's site? I can't find it. Multiple Apple IDs can be associated with one iTunes library. So, you purchased all of your music so far as foo(a)mac.com but decided not to renew. Now you have your new account, bar(a)yahoo.com. You can purchase music with this now, and your foo(a)mac.com stuff will still work. But you'll have to track your authorizations separately -- so the abc album you purchased as foo will stay associated with foo, and your future xyz albums will be associated with bar, and you'll need to perform both authorizations on each machine you want to play those sets of music on. I could have worded this better, but I think it answers your question correctly. -- Bill Stevenson Mac OS X Product Release Group Apple Computer bstevenson at remove this text dot apple dot com |