HELP! Can't play my songs!

At one time I had a different Apple ID which I purchased songs under. I reformatted my computer and I can no longer play those songs. I can't authorize my computer because that ID doesn't exist anymore! What do I do?

Why did my Apple ID disappear?!

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Connect your iPod to your computer. When you get the message that it is linked to a different library and asking if you want to link to this one and replace all your songs etc, press "Cancel". Pressing "Erase and Sync" will irretrievably remove all the songs from your iPod. When your iPod appears in iTunes enable it for disk use, this is required for most if not all the utilities listed below so they can access the files: Using your iPod as a storage drive
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I can't play the songs I bought from iStore.
It complain about the autorization, but how much I try it seems like I can't get this computer to get authorized.
I login to iStore with my only login account, buy the song, and it gets downloaded. Then when I try to play the song, I asks me again about the authorization. I use the same accout login, and it reply that this computer is now authorized... again. But the songs stil can't be played.
If I click again on the song the same loop above repeats itself.
Frustrastion = I can't play the songs I have bought.
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I, also, have that authorization nonsense (I am the administrator, and only user of the computer). But, still, I cannot make any changes. You will have to report to someone at iTunes, if you try to play the downloaded songs from iTunes.
Which version, has it always been that way?
Also, did you change your username/password, if things were working fine, at one time?
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Hey
I whould like some help with my iPod.
It is as the topic says, i can´t play the songs i got on my iPod at my computer(from the iPod).
The songs are just grey and i cant press them or anything.
There is also a small black lock icon at the bottom of my iTunes next to the display the shows how much memory all my songs take up.
This was working be4 i resetted my iPod to fill it with more music and hopefully to get rid of some annying freezes that occured aswell.
Anyone got a answer to why I can´t play my songs?

"The songs are just grey and i cant press them or anything. There is also a small black lock icon at the bottom of my iTunes"
Grey text when you look at the content and lock symbol at the bottom of the screen simply shows that your iPod is set to automatically update. If you want to access your iPod directly, play it through your iTunes, connect it to a second computer etc. you just need to change the update method to manual in the iPod preferences. For more detail see this tutorial: Managing content manually on iPod
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From my post on what seems like the same issue (found here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/21087892#21087892)
Take the following steps:
1) while connected to wifi, toggle off then back on the Show All Music and iTunes Match options shown in my original post. Important: I did this step before, but wasn't connected to wifi, and my music disappeared. Subsequently, I connected to wifi and turned off and then back on those options and everything came back though it was grayed out and my only option was to download music.
2) To get streaming over cellular back, go into Settings>General>Cellular and scroll down to the "Use Cellular Data for:" options and make sure the iTunes option is set to 'On'
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I hate to say it (as a decades-long Mac addict) but iTunes is becoming less and less a worthy organizing tool/database and more and more just a sales tool/gimmick.

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Hi,
If you don't have a back up, you have lost your music.
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I know you can select the different speakers to play the music to, but wondered if you can also push different music to different speakers at the same time ?
If not is there a way around this other than going for something like Sonos ?

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