Hi David, You wrote: > I > purchased music from iTunes and downloaded it onto a laptop that has since > died, yet I can find no way of re-downloading it as iTunes simply reports I > have downloaded it already. Presumably Apple are trying to make me fork out > for iTunes Match.
I think you can redownload your past iTunes music purchases. Take a read through the Apple Knowledge Base article on this topic. • Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 To download previous purchases onto your iOS device, launch the iTunes Store App, and navigate to "Purchased" tab on the bottom of the screen. On the iPhone, you'll have to first double tap the "More" tab that is the last element at the bottom right corner of the screen to get to this option, but on an iPad it's one of the tabs. You need to select between "music", "movies", or "tv shows" on an iPhone. (By default, the music tab will be selected on an iPad). There are tabs near the top of the screen that let you select between "all" or "not on this iPhone (or iPad)". Then you can select individual songs to download from the alphabetical lists, or the list of most recent purchases to download. If you choose "all songs", there will also be a "download all" button. There's a similar procedure for iTunes on your Mac or PC, but you have to be signed into your store account with your Apple ID, and the instructions are different for iTunes 11 and iTunes 10.7 and earlier. Since I'm still running the latest version of iTunes 10.7 which, by the way, has none of these problems, and still gives me access to the simpler iTunes power search options to browse store content, I can't give you step by step instructions. This is described in the knowledge base document, however. You'll have to bring up the preferences pane (with Command-comma), and after selecting the "store" in the title bar of the preferences, you need to make sure that the box for "Show iTunes in the Cloud" purchases is checked. I'm fairly certain you can download all your purchased music tracks again into iTunes on another computer that is authorized with the same Apple ID. Whether you can download TV shows and movie purchases is set by the copyright laws of your country's store. this didn't used to be an option in the U.S., I think, but all of this works for me. However, I think that for old audiobook purchases, you'd have to contact Apple, since this is not automatic under current copyright restrictions by the publishers. HTH. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
