Bulk songs authorization

I have had to rebuild my machine and lost my apple id details. I had to create a new apple id and now I cannot play any of the 1600 songs I have bought from the apple store. I have to authorise every song...PANTS!
Is there an easier way of doing this? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP.

I had to create a new apple id
How did you "lose" the details?
You don't remember the email address you used?
That's all you need to recieve all the "details".
I had to create a new apple id
Why? The songs are played under the account they were purchased on, not this new account.
and now I cannot play any of the 1600 songs I have bought from the apple store. I have to authorise every song
You should only have to authorize the computer one time using the account you purchased the songs with, then they should all work.
You don't authorize a song. You authorize a computer only one time, not multiple times. And you can only authorize up to 5 computers.
Deauthorize your computer completely and then authorize it once.
See here -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300161

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To anyone else who is having this problem, mine was finally resolved.
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At the first opportunity, upgrade your old DRM "protected" songs to iTunes Plus, so that you will not be dealing with authorization problems for the rest of your life.

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Update
I'm still not thrilled with the proprietary hooks, but I did get more helpful insight from iTunes support. I will never know why two cuts on an album wouldn't behave properly for a 2-user-family situation with several computers and two Apple IDs, but it may have been the universe reacting to my wife's unpleasant music tastes ("The Music of SMASH"). Nevertheless I have left the situation with a slightly better understanding of my situation from helpful Katie in Apple support, this business with the 90-day lockout.
Bottom line: think of it as two different things, authorization versus association. Or more specifically, iTunes song authorization versus computer association with your Apple ID.
Key concept: Association is required to use certain iCloud features such as automatic downloads, re-downloading songs, and iTunes Match. I was deep into iTunes Match when I first recognized the no-play problem and got stuck inside a reauthorization loop. And part of my solution to straightening out my SMASH cuts <wince> was re-downloading, apparently thrusting me hip deep into the Association policy.
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You can get more info on your situation from your iTunes..
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Next to each device or computer name, you will be able to see when each was associated to your Apple ID. You will also be able to track how many days are remaining before your associated devices. More info: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4627
Hope that helps the next guy trying to re-download a malfunctioning iTune and exasperated with this 90-day lockout threat.

Front Row problems with NAS drive (2 of them)

OK... having 2 problems with Front Row...
Background
First, I should say I'm new to Mac OS X, had early Macs, but went PC a long time ago.
I burned all of my music from CDs (I own) on my WinXP box, then copied them over to a NAS drive for easy access between computers.
The NAS is an Infrant ReadyNAS. The drive is shared on my network. The keychain app has the password information to the share. Though I should note, it doesn't matter if I remove the password from the share.
The ReadyNAS has a nice feature whereas it will act as an iTunes server, this is enabled. I do not have AFP or NFS enabled on the NAS since I regularly access the drive on WinXP machines. All access is SMB/CIFS.
I mounted the drive and created a link between the iTunes home folder and the network share. Thus, iTunes automatically mounts the share when started and seems to be comfortable that the files are accessible.
Everything works fine in iTunes.
Not so in Front Row.
Problem #1
Front Row will not read the "Shared Music." When I go this route in Front Row, it finds the NAS iTunes Music Server, but insists on being given a password to access the "Share." Of course, you can't enter a password.
Again, everything works just fine in iTunes. It shows the server fine under "Shared," and immediately brings up all music and plays it readily.
Just doesn't work in Front Row.
Problem #2
Front Row stopped auto-mounting the NAS share which is linked to the iTunes music folder. iTunes will mount it, if it is not mounted already when it first is asked to play a song. Up until this morning, Front Row would automount it too. This AM, after getting the Apple security update, Front Row would not automount the share. Note, if I automount the share manually, or go to iTunes (which properly automounts) before launching Front Row everything works fine from Front Row.
It took me a second to figure this out, as Front Row's terribly missleading error message is, you are not authorized to play this song - authorize it (well, that is the point of the wordy message). Of course, this confused me, since these are not iTunes store songs and of course, this worked fine yesterday.
Anyway, what is really happening, (I surmise) is it is not automounting the share and cannot read the song, and seemingly defaulted to the assumption it is a DRM problem.
I have to say, this is one out of the old Microsoft handbook. Missleading error messages and broken functionality from (it would seem) rushed out security updates.
I'm gonna have to tip my hat... some of those Microsoft developers that made the move from Redmond to Cupertino brought their game with them!
LOL
Anyway... anyone that can offer a hand would make my wife very happy. She likes Front Row... and now she has to start iTunes to make Front Row work. Sheesh.
Thanks in advance for the help.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8) Nah

Hi,
same thing here: I have 3 LCD-screens (30,26,20 Apple Displays) on two graphic-cards (ATI X1900XT, NVDIA7300GT). Front Row does not display any pictures or movies. Menus work like they should, Music also plays fine, but images are not shown. It only shows a white screen on the main screen (30") and the other two are dimmed to black. If i type ESC i get back to the menus...
Any hint? Regards - Peter

Transfer trouble!!

I'm terrible with all this stuff so bear with me!
My sister and I shared an iTunes account for a couple years and have acquired around 2,000 songs (which are on my iPhone and backup cds) during it. She recently went to college and the original plan was for me to set up my own iTunes account with my own Apple ID but with the songs on my Iphone. When I hooked up my phone to my computer and started to transfer my songs, authorization messages popped up for emails I didnt know. So I cancelled the sync and went to my account settings and saw that "one computer is authorized to play content purchased with this Apple ID".
When I try to set up a Homesharing account with my sisters ID it says that the limit of 5 authorized computers have been reached. So basically is there any ways I can set up my own iTunes account with the 2,000 songs and without having to go through Homesharing?

nhnx, if I were you I would use the followingwork-around:
1. Burn the music you have purchased on standard music CDs
[Music CDs are those you can play in a standard old-fashioned music CD player. Maybe you have done this already; you mentioned backup CDs? I know about three ways of back upping (is this an English verb?) in iTunes; let me explain:
(A) you can back up all you media in a special iTunes format on CD /DVD. This is good for rebuilding your iTunes under the same user account (sameApple ID) e.g. after a system breakdown or after migrating to a new computer.
(B) You can do the same much more conveniently using special software like copytrans. It transfers also all iTunes settings, purchased apps, covers, songtexts, bookmarks, etc.
(C) Back up using music CDs, as I propose you to do. With these CDs you are independent from iTunes.]
2. Set up a new iTunes on another computer using your own Apple ID. (I understand that you have started to do this already.)
3. Import the music from those music CDs into this new iTunes.
4. Sync your iPhone with your new iTunes and overwrite the existing music on your iPhone with the “new” music from your new iTunes.
If you are pursuing this way you should beware of the following:
5. If you connect your iPhone with a new iTunes account you can choose whether you want to keep your music, podcasts, audiobooks, contact data, calendar data, apps, photos, bookmarks, etc. or whether you want to sync them with the data from the new iTunes (music, apps, etc) respectively with data from your PC via the new iTunes (contact data, bookmarks, etc.). You can choose for each category separately.
6. If you choose not to sync a category with your new iTunes account it stays connected with the “old” iTunes (the one you shared with your sister). In theory you can sync different categories with different iTunes accounts, e.g. music with one and contact data using the other. But this has close limitations, is a bit tricky, so I can’t recommend this to you. I tried this for good a while but finally centralized all data sync on one iTunes on one notebook.
7. Probably you purchased apps for your iPhone. For free apps you can of cause download again to a new iTunes using a new Apple ID.But as far as I know you can not transfer apps you have paid for to another Apple ID.
8. If you are facing this app issue but your sister not, it might be better if SHE is setting up a new Apple ID and importthe music as described above.
9. Transferring music using music CDs is technically bypassing the digital rights management of Apple. If you mind you might better check, whether this is legal under the law of your country.
Good luck and have fun!

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I have this really ANNOYING problem where, since I went and got a .mac account and have a new Apple ID, I can't access some songs I bought a couple years ago with my former Apple ID. ITunes keeps asking me to authorize the content, brings up a window with my old ID, I enter the password and it seems to work -- but it doesn't. Every time I try to play the song, it brings the window back up... it's an endless loops and I can't access the songs!
What is the answer, Apple? Can you not correlate older and newer Apple IDs? Why can't I authorize the music with the old ID if I remember the password? Because the account no longer exists? If that's the case, my music is literally being held hostage without any known recourse. Please advise

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This device has been authorized for my apple account for quite sometime, and it says so when I log in to authorize it. But after "authorizing" when I double click my song it once again asks me to "Authorize device" by login in with my apple I.d. This is very frustrating and I want what I have already paid for.

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How do I get a song to play when it requests authorization, I authorize it, then iTunes acknowledges it was already authorized and still won't play?

I have gone through several different troubleshoots and still the problem remains. Inside the "get info" tab on the song it says that it was authorized by my account. The song is part of an album where I purchased the entire album. Out of the 14 songs I purchased on the album, 2 bring up the following screen when clicked on to play:
This computer is not authorized to play "You Reign Alone". Would you like to authorize it?
To play this song you must authorize this computer to play songs using this account. You may authorize up to 5 computers for each account.
So I input the Apple ID and password for the account and it gives me the following screen:
This computer is already authorized.
Including this one, you have authorized 3 computers out of your available 5.
But nothing has changed. I still can't play the song. As I said above, I checked the Get Info tab on the song and it showed the account I had logged in for authorization. Is there something I can do to get iTunes to play the songs I purchased?
(Side question: does anyone know how to email iTunes support. They say on the website that it can be done, but 45 minutes of frustrated screen hopping landed me nowhere but the same FAQs and Express lane call in support options. I just wanted a simple email option.)

Hi there cfarrington18,
You may need to remove and redownload the tracks that giving you troubles. Take a look at the article for more information.
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
-Griff W.

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