Does downloading music and films from iTunes use up data?

My broadband internet data plan at home is not unlimited. I have an allowance of 20GB a month. When downloading music and films from iTunes on my PC, will it eat up internet data? It is important that I keep within the limits of my data plan as I am short of money.

Yes. All your Internet traffic is using up that allowance. Each file you download will use up its own size, plus some handshaking data, and the traffic caused by browsing the store to look for it in the first place.
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Cannot download purchased music and films from iTunes to my iPad 4

I have recently bought an iPad 4 but am struggling to download music and films that I have purchased in iTunes. It gets to the processing stage and then a message pops up saying "unable to download at this time". I have retried the action but the same message keeps appearing. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Adam

Hi Hobbys26,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
I would suggest you log out of your iTunes Store account, restart your iPad, and follow the instructions below:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
Judy

HT1373 I have a new Ipad with retina display but two issues with itunes 1) I can not syncronize films&music with the library on my mac and 2) When I download music or films from itunes to my ipad from itunes store the download never finishes. Any help??

I have a two problems with my new Ipad 2 operating system iOS 6.1.3
1) I can not syncronize with my itunes purchaces that I have on my mac book pro (operating system mountain lion)
2) When i purchase items from itunes store the downloads never finishes
I have tried starting and re-starting. Resetting the Ipad to original settings and non of this have worked. Any idea to what I should do?
Thanks a lot, Josephine

That's one of the weird things.. it recognizes it maybe 10% of the time. And usually, only after I do the two-button reset. Problem is.. since it won't charge above 2%, anytime I try to do a restore or anything like that using iTunes, my device shuts off and I lose whatever progress I'd made.
So, an update... after reading through a bunch of similar complaints (there are literally 1000's of them so there's NO WAY this isn't somehow ios7 related, thanks a lot APPLE ) I decided to try a restore in recovery mode. After 3 hours and several disconnections... I ended up having to just set it up as a new iPad, as the restore did nothing. Weirdly though... as I was doing the restore in recovery mode.. I noticed I'd gotten up to a 10% charge.. higher than it's been since September, so after setting it up as a new device, I turned it off and plugged it in using the wall charger. 2 hours later and I was up to 38%. Still not great, as my iPad, before ios7 could've fully charged twice in the amount of time it took for me to now get 28% more of a charge. And that's with a fully cleaned out device.. so that really ***** and I'm now more confused than ever.
But I'm gonna leave it overnight charging and see what I come up with tomorrow. Sadly, when I paid $600 for it in February, I never expected to have to play "wait and see" with it...

Can't download music and movies from iTunes

I upgraded my ipad2 to ios5.1 and after that whenever I open iTunes from my iPad or pc I can only download books from iBooks and podcasts.
Please help!

Unfortunately downgrading the OS on the device is not supported by Apple.
I can tell you this - Google can turn up a whole world of possibilities if you are looking for an answer to something that is not supported.
Before you do anything else - were you able to download other content before you upgraded? Music? Movies? As far as I know - the content in that article was the only content that was available in India anyway and updating the iOS should have made no bearing on what you can download.

How to download songs and movies from iTunes? e top bar...

How to download songs and movies from iTunes? The music and movie tab is not on the top bar at the iTunes store...

To use the iTunes Store in a country you need a credit card issued in that country, billed to an address in that country, and also be physically present in that country when using the store. Basically all you have access to would be anything offered in South Africa unless you move to a different country.
It's the media owners who get to tell Apple where and where they cannot sell their media. I'm sure Apple would be happy to take your money but if the media companies are not happy then they can say no to sales in SA.
Even if there were a way to bypass this we certainly couldn't tell you on this forum because it would violate the Terms of use of this web site and get the whole topic removed.

HT4914 My pc has crashed and lost a considerable amount of music and videos from iTunes the files are still in iTunes but are empty, will iTunes Match restore my content over the cloud?

My pc has crashed and lost a considerable amount of music and videos from iTunes the files are still in iTunes but are empty, will iTunes Match restore my content over the cloud?

Hm ... I guess I can't edit the post above. Anyway, I seem to have solved it by ...
Quitting iTunes.
Going into Home / Music / iTunes, and renaming the file "iTunes Library.itl" to "iTunes Library (corrupt).itl".
Entering Time Machine, and restoring the "iTunes Library.itl" file from a few days ago. I went back two days, which seemed far enough back to be "before" the problem but not far enough back to have trouble with recent acquisitions.
Re-opening iTunes - and everything seemed to be back in order.
So that's fine for now. We'll see if the solution is stable.
Very, very tentative assignment of blame: I believe iTunes crashed earlier today after I'd synced photos from my iPhone to iPhoto, and then iTunes crashed while iPhoto was closing (and taking its sweet time doing so). If that was indeed the case, that's at least the second time in the past couple of months that trying to sync iPhone photos to iPhoto has caused me significant problems. (The last time led to 80% of my iPhone suddenly being occupied by "Other", and a full restore of the darn thing.)

HT5622 Why I can't download music and video from my computer to my iphone 5s?

Why I can't download music and video from my computer to my iphone 5s?

No idea, since you provide no info at all about your issue.

If My external hard drive went bad can I use iCloud to still have or access all my ripped music and movies from iTunes without starting over?

Can I have access to all my imported music and movies in iTunes even though my external hard drive went bad with the acutal files, if i purchase iCloud through iTunes.

You say "ripped" music. That is not stored on iCloud unless you subscribe to Match. As for iTunes Store purchases:
Downloading (using iOS or computer) past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match Availability by Country - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5085); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this). Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later. Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid. Apple notes it is your responsibility to back up your purchases.
Select the iTunes Store on the left side of iTunes.
Click on Purchased on the right side under Quick Links.
You can re-download your available previous purchases.
Of course if you had a backup of your files you would have been back up adn running iTunes by the time you read all this.

Want to download music and sound from YouTube?

I had used Dirpy to download music and other sounds from YouTube for my personal use only in FCE, so when Dirpy bought the farm this week, I went in search of an alternative.
A lot of searching brought up sites that wanted me to download something - scary - and one even asked for my email addy so that what I wanted could be mailed to my email function.
I found one that did not require me to download anything from its site, was simplicity itself to use and gave exceptional results.
I dragged the site's URL to my desktop, pasted the URL of the desired music clip from YouTube into the site's box, and in no time at all the sound was converted to MP3 and was deposited directly into iTunes.
Before you follow suit, check it to assure yourself that it is legitimate. And be absolutely sure to read up on copyright laws as they relate to music.
I like it. See what you think.
I tried to include the link in this post, but this apparently contravenes the rules of this forum, and it was rejected. The name of the site is Listen To You Tube and should be easy enough to find.
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Piracy: We do not condone piracy in any form. Our goal that this tool be used to obtain legal audio that would otherwise be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find. Youtube is a perfect source for these audio clips.
To combat abuse, we purposely do NOT allow searching of audio files on our site, nor do we present a directory of files for browsing. Additionally, audio files obtained from Flash video are normally very low bitrate - low quality compared to an mp3 you would purchase or convert from a CD.
This site is just a simple tool, and we hope you will find it useful.
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I have tried to download a rented film from iTunes. It definitely downloaded, I watched it. Once it had processed it disappeared.

Having downloaded a film from iTunes and watched it download (for the second time) it did so, processed and disappeared.
It did not show in the purchased section of iTunes and was not in the videos app. It was a rented movie.
I checked restrictions and turned the iPad off and on twice. Still nothing, please help.
I am in Thailand, would that make a difference?

What is important is how much free storage you have on your iPad not how much storage you have on iCloud ( which must be 17.2 GB of 25 GB).
Look in Settings > General > Usage > Storage

This is my first ipad how do i download music and videos from my pc to my ipad air thank you for any help

Hello this is my first apple product, I just got a ipad air. How do i download music and vidos stored on my pc to my ipad air also how do i download videos from youtube? Thank you for any help

Add all you wanna sync to Itunes by selecting a folder.
Then select it to sync in Itunes.
At the End synch your Ipad.
And you will see your IPad experience can start....
Wish you a wonderful Journey to explore wonderful things on a powerful Tool.
Nick.

Downloading music and videos from more than one iTunes account

We have ipads for our two granddaughters and each has an itunes account and we give them allowances and gifts now and then to buy videos music and apps.
They have each bought more stuff than they can fit on their ipad. I bought an external hard drive from Seagate to which I can store their music and videos. They can access this drive and the content on it through a LAN the drive sets up so their ipads can communicate with it when they are away from a network and have no access to iCloud.
When I logged into one of their accounts to download content, I got a message that said my computer was registered to a specific itunes account and that if I downloaded content from another account I would not be able to download any content from any other account for 90 days.
What gives. This would mean if one of them downloaded their content, the other wouldn't be able to download anything for 90 days and vice versa. This makes no sense.
What am I doing wrong and how do I deal with this situation?
I spoke with an Applecare person about this and they said yeah, this is the way it is set up. I asked "Why?" because it didn't make any sense and they tried to put me through to an iTunes "specialist" to explain it. I got the "specialist" but he had no idea what I was talking about and went to find out what was going on. He took so long to try to find out that I ended up losing the connection. Thought I would ask this forum.
Can anyone help me. This is a major glitch I don't know how to deal with.
Thanks,
--Kenoli

Julian
I am a bit confused and have heard different things from different second tier Apple support folks.
When you and your wife do as you describe are you actually downloading your content to your computer or just accessing it from Apple's servers via your iTunes software?
What I am trying to do is to download it from the server to my computer. You do this from within the iTunes store by clicking in the little iClound icon next to the item or telling the store to download all of it.
When I do this from one account, I am locked out of doing it from any other account for 90 days.
I'm looking forward to your account as I have Apple "experts" seem pretty much split 50-50 as to whether this is supposed to happen. So far, my experience is that on a given computer, no matter how many user accounts you have, if you download content from an iTunes account, content cannot be downloaded on that computer frm any other iTunes account for 90 days.
This, of course is not a problem if you are logged onto the internet. However, if you are not logged onto the internet, you cannot listen to any music you have not downloaded.
It is the second condition for my two grandaughters that I am trying to address.
Thanks,
--Kenoli

I need to know how to delete downloaded videos and movies from iTunes when the instructions on the support page does not work. I have swiped the selections from left to right on the phone and nothing happens.

Hello.
I need help deleting videos, tv shows, and movies downloaded from itunes. I have followed the instructions to delete from the macbook, I selected the videos I wanted to delete and right clicked to delete. Nothing happens. When I double click on the video it still starts playing. I also followed the instructions to delete the videos from the iphone by swiping from left to right with nothing happening. I opened the videos on the ipad and there is no edit selection like in the instructions on the support page. Can you please tell me how to permanently remove this content so it doesn't try to copy from each device when I want to back up the Iphone and Ipad to my macbook. Thank you.

Hi Shawninglewood,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
How to delete content you've downloaded from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, or Mac App Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5772
Cheers,
- Judy

Downloading music to mac from iTunes/icloud

My music in itunes is uploaded and/or matched via icloud: How do I download (to my mac) all music at once? I know how to download one song at a time, but cannot figure out how to "download all" as stated in the Help section. I know to select all via command+A, but not how to click on "download all". Thanks for the solution !

Same issue with one recent purchase (Midnight in Paris).
My response to Apple below.
Paul
Hi,
Please provide me with a refund. I will purchase the film on DVD instead.
I'm disappointed in your cut-and-paste response to be honest. I understand you must get a lot of support requests but trying to understand each individual case helps everyone ultimately.
I've done everything in your many support documents. It was a waste of time. I explained in the original case a specific problem (partial file download). That in itself ruled out most the support article fixes.
I tried different OS X user account, on different computer, using different network. I've deleted Downloads temp folder. I'm using latest iTunes version. Latest OS X version on iMac and MacBook Pro. I've disabled firewall. My internet connection is perfectly robust, reliable and fast.
I even downloaded another much larger movie from iTunes successfully on same day.
Have you considered that the problem might be with Apple's servers, the actual file, or high demand for the newly released movie?
Regards,
Paul

Can I download music and pictures from 2 different MacBooks onto one external hard drive?

I have looked around for the community, but have not found an answer here. Both my wife and I have 2 seperate MacBooks, but we wanted to put all of my pictures and music and all of her music and pictures onto one external hard drive. I read on another board that we can, but only if we purchase a Mini. Is it possible to do that without having to purchase a Mini? Or is purchasing a Mini the only way to be able to do that? Thanks in advance for any replies!

There is no reason that you cannot use a common external HDD for your communal data. Naturally you would have to disconnect it from one MBP and then connect it to the other when you wish to access the data or perform a download.
Any compatible external HDD will do, but make certain that you format it in Disk Utility to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Ciao.

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