I am trying to restore my purchases

Hi,
I have an update of my iTunes purchases on an external hard drive. I recently had to format the internal drive and now I want to take the songs I purchased and restore them from the external drive to the internal drive. Then I thought if I was able to log onto my account, I can see them but I didn't see a place to log onto my account on the home page.
Is there a place to log on or can someone tell me how to restore from the external drive?
Thanks!

What you can redownload will depend upon what country that you are in (and whether the items are still in your country's store). If you go in the Purchased tabs in the iTunes and App Store apps on your phone then you might be able to redownload some/all of your past purchases (music, films and/or tv programmes can't be redownloaded in all countries ; audiobooks and ringtones are one-time only downloads). You can also redownload ibookss via the Purchased tab in the ibookstore in the iBooks app.
Or do you have copies of your downloads on your computer's iTunes library so that you can sync them to your new phone ?

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