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    From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 5 10:43:10 2025
    Apple seems to make it incredibly difficult to renew a family Apple
    Music sub.

    My son is subscribed to AM using my payment details, and everyone else
    gets access to it. That's a bit messy, so we wanted to migrate the
    subscription over to me.

    That's not apparently possible, my son has to stop the subscription and
    then I have to start it again. Okaaay, except there's no way to do that seamlessly: I cannot start a subscription while another one is active. Apparently things like playlists disappear when a subscription lapses,
    so yay data loss.

    There's a certain amount of facepalming going on.

    Tips or tricks welcome!

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    Chris

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  • From Jaimie Vandenbergh@21:1/5 to Chris Ridd on Mon May 5 18:17:56 2025
    On 5 May 2025 at 10:43:10 BST, "Chris Ridd" <[email protected]> wrote:

    Apparently things like playlists disappear when a subscription lapses,
    so yay data loss.

    I don't believe this is the case. I specifically grabbed a free month of
    Apple Music in order to dump a playlist from Spotify to Apple for a
    friend, and despite that lapsing almost a year ago the playlist still
    exists in some nebulous manner.

    I can't do anything with it, but the URL still works - see if it's valid
    for you?
    https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/j-metal-2024/pl.u-DdAN8lquGqz4y

    If that's okay, then your lad can share playlists, note the URLs, and
    you can add them back to your account that way. Clumsy but functional.

    Cheers - Jaimie
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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Jaimie Vandenbergh on Mon May 5 21:14:28 2025
    On 05/05/2025 19:17, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
    I can't do anything with it, but the URL still works - see if it's valid
    for you?
    https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/j-metal-2024/pl.u-DdAN8lquGqz4y

    That still works, so yay (in spatial Apple Lossless).

    If that's okay, then your lad can share playlists, note the URLs, and
    you can add them back to your account that way. Clumsy but functional.

    I've got him to export his playlists from his Mac, so if it all goes
    pear shaped he can import them again.

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    Chris

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  • From Chris Ridd@21:1/5 to Chris Ridd on Wed May 7 10:21:18 2025
    On 05/05/2025 21:14, Chris Ridd wrote:
    On 05/05/2025 19:17, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
    I can't do anything with it, but the URL still works - see if it's valid
    for you?
    https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/j-metal-2024/pl.u-DdAN8lquGqz4y

    That still works, so yay (in spatial Apple Lossless).

    If that's okay, then your lad can share playlists, note the URLs, and
    you can add them back to your account that way. Clumsy but functional.

    I've got him to export his playlists from his Mac, so if it all goes
    pear shaped he can import them again.

    Things seemed to work out. One subscription lapsed, and a new one
    created. Barely a blip.

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    Chris

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