I switched to iCloud and all of my music is gone

I switched to iCloud and all of my music is gone and itunes is empty!!!! Also problems with calendar

Here's my problem - somewhat same topic I think. My kids on their devices have inadvertantly up until about a year ago purchased music with an email address I had briefly. A lot of it... And in past years I, on our itunes account have changed my email address as employment or the need arose.
The problem here is that the primary itunes account [email protected] for example, is what I setup all our devices to use itunes-icloud service yesterday that touts "access ALL of your music from your devices anywhere, anytime". OK. That's not true. It ONLY shows with the icloud icon in all of our devices the music either burned manually or associated with the itunes account we are logged into ([email protected])  Anything purchased from any of 3 other or more addresses (which none of us use or even have access to anylonger) are just not accessable.
I thought this was FINALLY going to be the ultimate sync across devices without wasting storage space needlessly.
What the heck?? I can't consolidate the accounts (the sensible approach here) and I can't see anyway to "alias" those to associate with the [email protected] or anything remotely making this a single library.
So...
I'm PAYING for a service that says I can get to all my music. NOPE. It DOES NOT DO THIS!!!
How about letting me add them to my appleID when managing my ID from apple.com? Nope. Doesn't work either. That's shortsighted Apple!! Come on!

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