Buying from several ITunes Stores

When I try to buy from another Itunes Store, I get "Your account is not authorized to use this ITunes Store (US)" and it sends me to the authorized one (France). This is crazy! Each store has songs that are not available in the other. Are we restricted to what we may listen to?

The issue of cross store purchasing comes up frequently so I'll just quote one of the most complete explanations (courtesy of Dave Sawyer) from the many given:
In order to buy from any given country's iTunes Music Store you must be able to show some form of residency which would be either:
a) a credit card with a billing address in that country, or
b) a mailing address in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.
If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.
.......this is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice. And this also applies to all the legal download stores that carry major-label content, not just the iTMS.

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You do not.
Unless you have a payment account and billing address in the US you cannot purchase from the US store.
And you will need to physically be in the USA for it to work.

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I want to buy from the iTunes Store, and I can not why?, I want to buy from the iTunes Store, and I can not why?

Most of the people on these forums, including myself, are fellow users - you're not talking to iTunes Support here, we won't know why.
What happens when you try to buy something, does the 'buy' button not work, do you get any error messages ... ?
If you are getting a message to contact iTunes Support then you can do so via this link and ask them for help : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ - click on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then Purchases, Billing & Redemption
If it's a different problem ... ?

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I have an account with the itunes store in Denmark but want to buy some music from the store in the UK (which isn't available yet in DK). This doesn't seem possible - I keep getting directed back to the Danish store - WHY??? (I am fairly new to all this as you can probably tell).

Apple are currently under investigation in Europe over not allowing UK customers to buy from for example the French store which as Zevoneer says is due to the dictates of the Record Industry. However such a policy flies in the face of European rules on free movement of goods within the EU (which is why there is an investigation).
See http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/03/appleitunes_eurocomplaint/
So while Sorers in Denmark (in Europe) might want to buy from the UK store (also in Europe) due to the bigger selection of tracks, despite the fact that the UK store has the second highest iTMS prices in the world, we in the UK would like to buy from the Denmark (or France, or Ireland, etc.) which have the second cheapest iTMS prices in the world.
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Steffen

stapqu wrote:
Am I right?
yes, you are.
*From the itunes store terms of service*:
+to purchase from an iTunes Store in a particular country, you must have both a residential address and a billing address in that particular country. Items on any particular country's iTunes Store are available only for distribution to customers who use a credit card, debit card, iTunes Gift Certificate, or iTunes Gift Card issued in and for that country.+
JGG

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This question is asked frequently so I'll just quote the most complete answer (courtesy of Dave Sawyer) from the many given:
In order to buy from any given country's iTunes Music Store, you must have either:
a) a credit card with a billing address in that country, or
b) a mailing address in that country and a gift certificate or a prepaid card that was bought in that country.
If you cannot fulfill one of these two sets of conditions, you will not be able to purchase from any given country's iTMS.
.......this is due to restrictions placed on Apple by the record companies and other rights holders (who are often completely different from country to country and so all require their own individual negotiations and contracts), not by Apple's choice. And this also applies to all the legal download stores that carry major-label content, not just the iTMS.

Buying from US iTunes Store

Hi all,
Knowing Apple the answer is probably 'NO' or even 'Sod off, your having a laugh', but is it possible to buy from the US iTunes store from the UK?
Thanks
Matt

Keep in mind that you will have to use his iTunes account (and then authorize your computer at home with his account) or create a new iTunes account here in the US for you. But you would have to use a gift card because your credit card has a UK billing address.
Then when you get home, you'd have to authorize that account on your computer also.
Either way, you will have music on two different accounts you need to have authorized on your home computer.
You regular account and the new account.

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My Itunes-Angola doesn´t has any music (songs) at all. I would like to buy songs from itunes store from a diferrent country. but it doesn´t allow me.

You can only buy/download content from your own country's store - to be able to buy from another country's store you will need to be in that country and have a valid billing address in that country on your iTunes account (content is licensed to Apple to sell by the content providers on a country-by-country basis).
In order to sell music in Angola the record companies will have have to grant Apple licenses to do so - until if/when they do that then unfortunately you won't be able to buy music from Apple. You can try leaving feedback for Apple to let them know that there are people there that would like to buy music : http://www.apple.com/feedback/

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When I originally set up my ipod I can't remember a lot of the things I was prompted to do.
I can't remember what was involved in setting up an account.
Now, when I have gone to buy an album it has asked me to sign in. I put in my username and password etc and it tells me: 'To use this apple ID you must first log in to the 'my info webpage' then provide additonal security information'.
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Bikram Suri
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Sir,
I thought So too but then I went to Itunes Library and try and buy a single song from an album for $1.29. Now my Itunes Gift card balance is $ 7.10 as I mentioned earlier. it still did not let me buy and kept trying billing my Visa card.
Should I restart my PC and Itunes and retry. What do you suggest?
regards
Bikram Suri
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It does seem a bit off that the rules are that stringent....
This is not a decision made by Apple.
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