Every time I purchase songs from iTunes I lose my playlist
When I purchase songs from iTunes I get the new songs but all my previous songs disappear. This is getting frustrating and makes me not buy songs.
Who have you tried to contact (these are user-to-user forums) ? You should be able to copy iTunes purchases from your iPad to your computer's iTunes via File > Transfer Purchases. The 'cannot be copied' error implies to me that the 'pointer' to the song is on your computer's iTunes but the actual music file doesn't exist anymore - can you play that track on your computer ? If not then do you have a copy of it in anywhere ? If it's an iTunes purchase and it's on your iPad then you should be able to delete the 'pointer' from your computer's iTunes and File > Transfer Purchases should copy it back ; if it's a non-iTunes purchase that's on your iPad then you will need to find a third-party computer program that can copy it back.
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I purchased songs from iTunes Radio on my iPhone, but now the only place they will show up is in the iTunes Store app on my phone, even after syncing to my computer a million times, the songs do not show up in my library or anywhere else. My phone is not syncing properly, I wanted to add another playlist to it that I created on my Mac. I pluged in my phone and made sure the playlist I wanted to add was checked to be on my phone when I synced.
The playlist I wanted to add was "Country." It is clearly checked. I also wanted to add the "Recently Added" playlist, which I also checked before sycing. Currently, my phone only has the "Purchased" playlist and my "All Songs" playlist on it. When I hit sync, iTunes added another playlist automatically added another playlist to the list above and checked it. It was titled "ALL SONGS 1" and had ten fewer songs in it than the playlist I had created, "ALL SONGS" had. This playlist, however does not show up on my phone after syncing, nor does "Country" or "Recently Added." (Every time I sync, another playlist is created as "ALL SONGS 2, 3, 4, etc.") One of the songs (I have not, yet checked the other songs) that I purchased from within iTunes Radio shows up in the "ALL SONGS 1" on this screen:
But does not show up anywhere else. This playlist does not show up anywhere but the two screens above. The ALL SONGS 1 or 2 playlists do not show up here:
When I search for those song in my library, it shows that I do not have them:
But if I go to the iTunes store, I get the play button and not the price of the song:
This is what things look like from my phone's side of things:
"Summertime Sadness," one of the songs I bought from iTunes Radio, does not show up in the iTunes store under purchased "All" or "Not on This iPhone"
But, it does show up under "Recent Purchases"
Also, this is what playlists are on my phone after syncing a million times:
Only what was on there before I started any of this. "Summertime Sadness" and the other songs I bought from inside iTunes Radio, do not show up in either of these playlists. Please, help me.Hi Petrafin,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
You can download your purchases directly to your computer.
Downloading past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBooks Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
Cheers,
- Judy -
I recently purchased songs from itunes via my pc and I dont know how to get them onto my iphone? When I click the sync button it says I will lose all the music currently on my iphone.. Help
If you're syncing with a different iTunes library than the one you previously synced with, then there is no way around it. You're gonna loose the old data. The only way round it would be to make sure that all the music files on your iPhone is also in your iTunes library. If you still have access to the computer with the old library, you could copy the files on to an external harddrive, and then import them into your new iTunes library.
If it is in fact the same library, then the music currently on your iphone, is also in your itunes library. Just make sure that the artists/albums/playlists, or whatever you sync contains these tracks, that you allready have on your phone and don't want deleted. What i do is, i create a playlist specifically for my iPhone, and i set it up to only sync with this playlist. Whenever i hear a track from my iTunes library or buy a new track that i want on my phone, i just drag it to this playlist and next time i synchronize, it's there without deleting anything else. -
i dont want my newly purchased songs from itunes to automattically sync to my iphones 4S.
How do you unsync?
Thank youthank you very much for the quick reply.
I did every step you mentionned but i still see all my recently purchased songs.
i closed my phone off completely and re-opened it and they are still there.
Is there any other way ?
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All my purchased song from iTunes are not playing complete (iPod and computer with Windows Vista), unexpectedly stops and continues with next song. What am I doing wrong?
Are the songs playing whole in iTunes? if not download them again.
else read this Apple Support Article on your problem
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I have purchased songs from itunes on my ipad but now they are not there anymore. How can they get them back? Dont come up in songs not on this ipad and in itunes it asks to buy again
If you are now in the US then you can only use the US store, so you should update the address on your account
Changing country : Change the country of your iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store account.
Had you copied the songs over to your computer's iTunes library, do they show in the Music section on it ? You can copy purchases that you still have on your iPad over to your computer's iTunes library via the File > Devices > Transfer Purchases menu option -
I do I transfer songs for my purchased songs from iTunes into my iPad. I no longer have a laptop but have a iPad I I see my purchased songs in the IPad but do not know how to transfer them to the iPod. Please help.
If you have an iPod Touch running iOS 4.3.3 or later, you can download the songs in the purchased tab of iTunes on the iPod.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519 -
how do you transfer purchased songs from itunes that you bought on your computer to your iphone? PLEASE HEP!!!
Just follow the steps in this article:
www.apple.com/support/kb/ht1351 -
I purchased songs from Itunes store and I would like to record a CD to my parents with specific songs but when introduce the cd a message appears that the songs are not in MP3 format, how could I convert them?
Hello
In itunes...preferences you can change the setting to import songs instead of mp4 to mp3. Afer changing this setting, right click to the songs and than you are able to convert to mp3. ths's it -
Error -50 when trying to purchase songs from itunes store
When I try to purchase songs from itunes store I get error -50 or the message that their is not internet connectivity (which is not the case).
Any suggestions for a way to fix this?In the course of your troubleshooting to date, have you worked through the following document?
iTunes Store: "An unknown error occured (-9808)" -
I can't copy purchased songs from iTunes onto my iPod on my new computer.
I have an HP Pavilion zd7000 notebook computer. It's used. It was given to me by a family member. I put my iPod software onto it. I can purchase songs from iTunes, and I can connect my iPod and play the music. However, when I tried to put a purchased song from iTunes onto my iPod, I was told that I wasn't allowed. Is there some sort of security thing I don't know about?
Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Are you sure your computer is authorized for this? This is probably your issue.
If you go to the "Advanced" tab on the top in iTunes, is there a "Deauthorize computer..." button or an "Authorize computer..." button? If there's an "authorize computer" link, then that is your issue. Authorize your computer, and you should be able to transfer iTMS purchased songs from iTunes to iPod.
For details, see this Apple article:
About iTMS authorization and deauthorization
I hope this helps you,
-Kylene
If any post helps or solves your issue, please mark it that way accordingly. Thank you for helping the boards! -
Dear Apple community, some purchased songs from iTunes store are not shown in the album, how can I download them?
I already looked through this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
However my itunes does not display the 'library' icon. Some help would be greately appreciated!
Cheers!
AndyHello
In itunes...preferences you can change the setting to import songs instead of mp4 to mp3. Afer changing this setting, right click to the songs and than you are able to convert to mp3. ths's it -
My macbook pro is already authorized, but a purchased song from iTunes keeps stating that my computer is not authorized to play it. I enter my apple ID and password, upon which a window confirms that my computer is already authorized. Yet the song still won't play and continues to state that my computer is not authorized.
If you live in a country in which you are allowed to re-download purchased music delete the track from the library and the HDD and re-download it.
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HT203433 download error for purchased songs from itunes how do i fix this
Purchased songs from iTunes and some of them won't download, it says "download error, try again". Has anyone else had this problem and what do I do to fix it?
ThanksIf they work on your PC, then unsync them from the phone and resync.
If they do not work on your PC, redownload from Past Purchases, then unsync from phone and resync -
Trying purchase songs from itunes store but nothiing is happening after I click on the "buy" button. I have credit available ($21.59). Do I need to refresh or update somehow? Not sure what's going on never happened before when purchasing from itunes.
Try to connect in recovery mode, explained in this article:
iOS: Unable to update or restore
Before that, back up your device, explained here:
iOS: Back up and restore your iOS device with iCloud or iTunes
How to back up your data and set up as a new device
You can check your warranty status here:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do
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