Authorizing computers and playing purchased music

Hi,
I think I do not understand what authorizing is.
What I would like to do is to be able to play music I have purchased on multiple computers -- it seems like I can't download the music a second and third time, so I assume that I would have to put songs on a flash drive or email them to myself to put them on another computer.
So then do I need to authorize those other computers in order to play those transferred songs? Is that how this works?
Thanks,
Matt

If those other computers are not authorized, you won't be able to play them in their original form anyway. Burn them as an audio CD & import them that way. You can have 5 computers authorized.
See these documents:
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Some of my iTunes Music Store purchases won't play in iTunes

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