Consolidating or Merging iTunes (Apple) Accounts

I have 2 iTunes accounts. Is there any way to merge the old one into the new one (and close the old one) so that I don't have to deal with authorization issues relating to music that I bought with the older account? Gotta be a way.

I contacted iTunes Store Customer Support and this is the answer I received:
"I apologize, but it is not possible to join two or more iTunes Store accounts together. However, you can play the titles you purchase with two or more accounts if you authorize each computer on which you want to play those titles for each account.
You may download titles that you purchase from the iTunes Store one time only. All titles are marked with the account name that was used to purchase them. You may then authorize up to four other computers to play purchases made with that account. (You just can't authorize other accounts to play those purchases.)
If you want to play your purchases on another computer, you can copy them from the computer where you bought them to another computer. These articles show you how:
Mac: iTunes: How to copy music between authorized computers
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n93063
Copying music between authorized computers with iTunes for Windows
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n93366
To authorize your computers, follow these steps on each computer for each of your accounts:
1) Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes. You can download it free of charge:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download
2) Open iTunes.
3) From the Store pull-down menu at the top, choose Authorize Computer.
4) Enter one of your account names and the password for the account.
5) Click Authorize.
Repeat steps 3 to 5 for each of your accounts.
If you forget the password to one of your accounts, you can recover it using the Apple password-recovery website:
http://iforgot.apple.com
To learn more about iTunes Store authorization and deauthorization, read this article:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n93014
Thank you for being an iTunes Store customer. Apple appreciates your business.
Sincerely,
iTunes Store Customer Support"
I hope this was useful

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My question relates about merging two apple accounts.
Having two accounts is an issue (for instance when you start setting up Family sharing, or trying to get phone calls on your Mac)
As we know, merging two accounts is alas (still ?) not possible.
But it should be possible to address the issue it my migrating data.
As many people, I have two accounts:
Account A: [email protected], with all my purchases (iTunes, apps, machines)
Account B: [email protected], with my calendar, contacts, bookmarks, photos...
The best possible option seems to keep account A:
- Transfer the data from B to A
- Possibly transferring the [email protected] address into A
- Close B
About the data transfer:
- Transferring iCloud documents is easy (using the Finder)
- Transferring contacts, events bookmarks is also easy as they can be exported (ex .VCF or html)
- Transferring Notes can be done by moving the notes from the iCloud list to the On my Mac List
- Transferring Passwords and Photostreams is difficult (No Export solution for KeyChains, No way to transfer ownership of a photo stream)
- I do not know yet about transferring the iCloud email address [email protected] into the [email protected]
So my questions are:
1) Do you have any idea about transferring Passwords in KeyChain from one iCloud account to another ?
2) Do you have any idea about transferring ownership of a photo stream to one iCloud account to another ?
3) Do you have any idea about the email address transfer
4) Do you have any other way to do this ?
Thanks for your attention
Kind regards

The easiest thing to do would be to use an iOS device, such as your iPhone to migrate the data from one account to the other. You can go to Settings>iCloud on your phone, sign out of account B, choose Keep on My iPhone and provide your password when prompted, then sign back in using ID A to create a new iCloud account and choose Merge when prompted to upload the data. This will not migrate notes, which as you said, can be dragged and dropped between accounts on your Mac.
This will also not move your existing iCloud email account. You cannot move an iCloud email account to a new iCloud account. You would either have to switch to the new @icloud.com email account that goes with your new iCloud account, or continue to use the existing email account as a "secondary account" To do this, you would go to Settings>Mail,Contacts,Calendars>Add Account>iCloud on your iOS devices (and System Preferences>Internet Accounts>iCloud on your Mac), sign back into account B and turn on Mail. Just be aware that, at least on an iOS device, this would not be push email as push is only supported in the primary iCloud account.
Photo stream cannot be moved between accounts either, not can it be enabled in a secondary account. If you want to keep your photo stream photos you'll have to either save them to your device, or add them to a shared album before signing out of the existing account (see http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99). Another option would be to import them to your iPhoto events, then add them back to your new photo stream using iPhoto when you sign into the new iCloud account on your Mac.
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I doubt it, but you can ask Apple.
Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-676-2775 or visit online Help for more information.
To contact product and tech support: Contacting Apple for support and service - this includes
international calling numbers..
For Mac App Store: Apple - Support - Mac App Store.
For iTunes: Apple - Support - iTunes.

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Back up
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