Purchased songs on an account that doesn't exist.

Question

I'm trying to transfer songs from iPod to iTunes but there's a few songs that aren't transferring over. When I click them to authorize the "ID" block is auto populated. I click on my "forgot password" it opens up a browser and takes me to a page where I can recover my password. However I receive a error "User ID isn't valid". How do I find out what account that song was purchased on? I thought the auto populate did that. If so how come a song was purchased from a user ID doesn't exist?

Answer 1

If you changed your AppleID, it will still show the old one (as that is embedded in the song file) but you must change it to the new one when you enter it to authorize the computer.
As an example....
You create an account with the ID of [email protected]
When you purchase a song, this will be embedded in the file so when you try to play it, it will autopopulate the ID field.
Later you move and change the ID to [email protected]
When you try to play a song, it will pop up with [email protected]
You need to change it to [email protected] and it will work.
The error you received is because the AppleID was changed so the old one does not exist, even though it shows up on the songs.
If you go here -> https://iforgot.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/DSiForgot.woa/19/wo/E914DBZn8dX7zoi gjCkLpM/0.11.3.0.0.1
you can find out the correct/current AppleID for the old songs.