Two different iTunes Accounts?... My old Mac and my new Me.

If you were a former .Mac member, your old .Mac account name and new MobileMe account name are one and the same account.

If you had a "normal" (non .Mac) Apple ID and now have a MobileMe account, then no, you can not merge that two accounts and not transfer music from one to the other. You can, however, authorize the new account to play music bought with the old account.

Danielle Marie,

The old email address will still be needed to authorize the old music. You don't have to keep it as an active .Mac/MobileMe account though.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

I have two responses for this.

First, the simple workaround is to just authorize iTunes to play music from both accounts (there's an option for it in one of the menus). You can only log into one at a time to purchase new items from the store, but iTunes itself should be able to play all music from all the accounts that have been authorized on that computer.

HOWEVER, I'm actually in the same boat, and I'm not happy with just that workaround. When I went into the Apple Store to get my 3G, they wanted me to register the phone with my iTunes account right there in the store, but I couldn't remember my iTunes account password (which I created a long time ago with my Gmail address). I had told the sales guy that I recently purchased a MobileMe account, so he told me to just use that instead. So now I have two accounts.

Having two accounts just doesn't sit well with me, so I'm also very interested in the answer to this question.