Unable to play purchased tracks from old account

am sure this has been asked many times before but...............
I changed ISP provider 18 months ago, i.e. our email address changed and we also changed our credit card details. I backed up all my i-tunes store purchased music in preparation for moving to a new PC. Despite authorizing the new PC (apparently successfully) i-tunes simply refuses to play anything that was purchased under my old email account and, I can't remember the password.
The ironic thing is that CD's that i purchased 10 yrs ago can simply be fed into the blue-ray drive and i can reload them. No such luck on music that was purchased less than 3 yrs ago via i-tunes. groan. we also don't have phone help in the UK. anybody help before i ditch i-tunes store and go back to buying CD's?

it does seem crazy not to have some sort of tag that u can carry with u
What?
that would allow you to easily keep your ligitimately purchase music as your own
There's nothing really to do except copy your music onto CD/DVD/hard drive.
Continue to use the same iTunes account you had.
far too complicated and something that needs addressing.
I believe you are trying to make it much more difficult than it is.
If you get a new computer, copy your files from the old to the new.
If you have the same computer, you need do nothing.
Change the info in your iTunes account if you move or get a new ISP.
That is all you need to do.

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