How do I authorize music purchased on a different appleID account other than mine?

Question

Long story. Here goes:
I was married for several years and during that time my now ex-wife and I purchased music from iTunes. Being married and foolishly adhering to that old adage that once two people are married they become one, we set up OUR Apple account using my then wife's (now ex-wife's) e-mail address and created OUR apple ID account under her name. Fast forward eight years, it has now been two years since my divorce and I have tons of music that was purchased using my ex-wife's Apple account. During the last two years, playing the music that was purchased with her account has not been an issue. I select my music that I want to listen to, hit play and it played. But ever since the latest update from iTunes, I now have a HUGE issue. The latest update requires computers to now be "authorized" to play purchased music and any purchased music must now be verified by the account ID and password used to purchase the music. This has created a catastrophe because my ex-wife has now of course changed her Apple ID password which means I no longer have access to about $1000 worth of music because of this new authorization bull crap!! WHY APPLE IS REQUIRING THIS I DO NOT KNOW BUT I DO KNOW I CANNOT AFFORD TO RE-PURCHASE  UNDER MY ACCOUNT THE  $1000 WORTH OF MUSIC I ALREADY PURCHASED UNDER MY EX-WIFE'S ACCOUNT. This has made me livid to say the least because this seems to be an arbitrary and completely random bull crap requirement from Apple. I have tried to resolve this through Apple support but since it is now nearly impossible to speak to a human at Apple, the email method of communication has yielded diddly squat. I doubt this "forum method" will be any more productive but I have to try. I have begun a social media campaign against Apple's methods of burying random and arbitrary requirements deep within their regular software updates. I've already paid for the music once. I won't pay for it again. HHHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

Lotsapples77 wrote:
If you are in the process of getting divorced, put it in your agreement that the old ID gets frozen and nobody uses it going forward and then set-up new IDs for future purchases.  That way, nobody ever looses the old stuff. 
Bad suggestion.
If you  freeze the ID (simply meaniung each agrees to not make new purchases) then you both have two iTunes accounts to deal with - the old one and a new one.
Also, you legally cannot both use the content.
Just give the iTunes account to one or the other then each has only one iTunes account.
Make a deal. - You get the dishes, I get the iTunes account.