Checking for Purchased Music

I recently lost all of my music due to me crashing my hard drive...don't ask! Anyway, I went to go check for purchased music on iTunes and it gave me 149 of my 160 songs. I want those other 11 songs, but when I go and try to check for purchased music, now I'm getting 25 random songs that I've never even heard of! How do I get these 11 songs back? iTunes does not recognize my iPod anymore, so I can't plug it in or anything, but I do have a copy of the library.xlm copied on to my hard drive if that helps any. Let me know if anyone knows what to do, because I have also tried repurchase them, but it says I would have a duplicate, but that's not the case for me! Thanks.
Ashlee

I had to unauthorize my computer and authorize it again. I was then able to transfer my purchased music to my iTunes library.

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Hi Rickey,
I think you should contact the Music Store customer service agents to get help on this one. To contact them, go to the iTunes Help menu and select Music Store Service and Support and then click "iTunes Music Store
Customer Service" on that page.
Good luck,
Sara.

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unknown error 11502. That's what it's telling me. what does it mean? how to I buy music?

Earlier today I was having problems like many iTunes users with downloading songs and connecting to the music store. Since then my pre-ordered music and purchased music has been downloading fine. I am having that same error (11502) that I am unable to check for purchased music. I had bought a pixar short video and don't see it in videos or in puchased music. When I try to purchase the movie again I get a message that it has already been purchased and just not downloaded. I tries to download and check which leads to the error message. Any ideas?
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Every time I open iTunes I get prompted to check for purchased music. Is there any way I can stop this from happening?
I have the version 7.2.0.34 of iTunes.
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Everytime I launch iTunes, get "check for purchased music" message. Why?

Greetings Everyone,
After I installed iTunes 7.2 (for PC), and upgraded my library to the available iTunes Plus songs I started receiving this message.
This occurred after one song did not download during the iTunes Plus library upgrade. I received an error that was documented by an editor at MacWorld Magazine (it was a numbered error, I do not remember which one it was). I tried again the next day and was able to successfully complete the download.
However, every time I launch iTunes I am asked to input my AppleID and password to check for purchased music. This has become very annoying. Does anyone know why this is happening?
I have taken a few steps to troubleshoot this process. I tried rebuilding my iTunes library as suggested on this support site. That did not work. I deleted everything from my iTunes folder and then launched iTunes. The box asking me to check for purchased music did NOT appear. So I have narrowed it down to a problem with my library/configuration.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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I had this problem and found some interrupted downloads stuck in my download folder. Quit iTunes and move the downloads folder to the desktop. Check inside and make sure you don't need to re-download those songs.
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Downloads
I think that is a temporary folder that gets created during the download, then gets deleted when done. iTunes must be seeing at startup and asks for password to try to finish, but never does.

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So I'm getting a strange message I've never seen. I gifted a video game for my girlfriend and after she clicked on the link and entered the code apparently something happened in the beginning of the download of the game which suggested that she "check for purchases music." I upgraded her ipod to 1.2, upgraded to the new itunes 7, upgraded to the latest quicktime and repaired permissions. We are stuck in this problem now. iTunes can never check for purchases. It keeps saying its busy but I don't think that's it. Is there something we can try? I feel like an idiot now that I bought this $5 game and it won't even download on her computer. Anyone else have this problem???

I was having the same problem, then read here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=6378
to try re-authorizing the computer in iTunes. I did,
then did a "check for purchases" again and it worked.
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i recently purchased many many songs, and i have dial up, so i couldn't finish the downloads all at once. I keep checking for purchases, but this error keeps coming up:
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i'm not really sure how to get my purchases to download, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yes, that will work.
A lot easier than using your iPod as a hard drive.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131

Unable to check for purchases. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable.

Every time I go to check for purchases I receive this message. Ive been recieving it for a couple weeks now and its reallly starting to annoy me.
Based on what info I found, I tried adding different program and port exceptions to my firewall, and I toggled my virus scanner and spyware. (and I dont have an internet accelerator so thats not the cause).
So then when that failed i just turned my virus scanner and firewall completely off. Still its the same problem.
I have almost 70 downloads that are incomplete (because of an error that apple support has worked out with me), but I have no way of accessing them.
PLEASE HELP / GIVE ANY SUGGESTIONS
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ya....
"I understand that you are still receiving a message about connection error when trying to download your purchases.
I have confirmed that the iTunes Store is functioning and accepting connections. Therefore, the issue is likely related to your Internet connection, local network, or computer. I'm happy to provide some information that should help you connect to the iTunes Store again.
I apologize for any inconvenience you have experienced with this issue and I can imagine how frustrating this could be for you. However, the nature of your question falls outside the type of support provided via email by the iTunes Store team. The iTunes Store team answers non-technical questions about billing, customer accounts, downloading music, and iTunes Store."
Im going to send them my exact connection details and such.. but if anyone knows the solutions to this PLEASE tell. It would save a ton of time and frustration.

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Okay...I have a iPod Video and I also have dialup...so when I try to download tv shows...you might as well rip your hair out its so long. And sometimes when the internet kicks my off wether it was the phone ringing or whatever, it goes to 'Check For Purchases'.
Now my question is, (let's say that we have like, 7 songs &/or videos in the CFP) Is there a way to download only a song in the middle, like the second song on the list and not downloading the rest?
Thanks! This would be a GREAT help!
Liz
ps
Im new so sorry If im really bad!

It is from the Music Store...and 'CFP' means 'Check For Purchases'
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I just got a new computer and I cannot find my purchased music from my other computer. I tried everything apple told me to do in support but it did'nt work. So please somebody tell me hw to find it!
P.S. I use Windows Vista

Gordon, when you open iTunes, click on "store" at the top, there you should see "check for purchases." As the Mimico Kid told you, this function will not load your purchases on to another computer. This function is used when you have a download interrupted for whatever reason, & under most circumstances, "Check for purchases" will restart that interrupted download.
If you are attempting to move purchases to another computer, you will have to use a secondary method such as burning data discs, a flash drive, or external hard drive. Store policy only allows for 1 download even though you can uses purchases on 5 authorized systems.

Unable to Check for Purchases

Hey,
I've bought ALOT of music on iTunes and suddenly, I have trouble trying to download purchased stuff. Podcasts are fine, only music. I had to restart my computer in the middle of downloading songs then when i go Store<Check for Purchases, it won't work. The iTunes support staff are doing nothing. What can I do? The error message says try again later, and I have.... FOR A WEEK!
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Matt

No, the server is NOT down. I downloaded songs fine. It is only when they aren't downloaded and I need to check for purchases is it not working.
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Checking for purchases on second machine

My dad had some strange event with his WINDOWS PC (traitor...) and now it says his hard drive is having a read error (strange thing is, my PC did the same thing... I'm not a traitor though... my Mac mini can't handle parallels.)
Anyways, the hard drive is shot. My dad thinks that PC is a thing of the gods and that it CAN'T have problems (like the hard drive 'disappearing' or whatever...) so he didn't back up the music from iTunes.
My mom also recently got her first iPod, so I have been working that for her from my computer, so we figured that we could put my dads music on my computer and my moms iPod (my dad doesn't have one) until his computer is fixed.
We don't know yet if his hard drive is completely destroyed and everything is gone forever or not.
If it IS destroyed forever, how do we get the music back? Do we have to repurchase it?
I tried authoriing his account on my computer, but 'check for purchases' won't let me do anything...
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Every time I open iTunes 7.2 it asks me for my Apple ID and password so it can check for purchased items. It's super weird. I have no purchased items to download and the "Check automatically for purchased content" is unchecked in the prefs.
I've tried entering my password and hitting "check"... tried hitting "cancel". Nothing works. Tried hitting up the email tech support and was sent articles on authorizing my computer. Thanks Apple.
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I fixed it on my machine. I found a file called list.plist in a folder called Downloads in my iTunes Music folder. After I moved this file to the trash, the behavior stopped.
I first verified that I had no other outstanding downloads before I deleted the file. I don't know what will happen if you do have outstanding downloads and delete this file. It would suck to lose music you paid for so proceed with caution.
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