If you restore iPhone without backing up will you delete recently downloaded music?

Question

I'm having problems with my ipad and iPhone, and because of this I've been advised not to sync to tines until I can take them to the apple store. However, I've purchased several songs through the iTunes Store since my last back up, and if the devices get restored at the apple store,will these songs be lost because they're not on my laptops iTunes library? Will I have to repurchase them? Thanks!

Answer 1

Whether you will need to repurchase them depends upon what country that you are in (music can't be redownloaded in all countries) and if they remain in your country's store (content providers occasionally remove their items from the store). Also none of your downloads from the store are included in a backup, when restoring to an iTunes backup it picks up your songs, apps etc from your iTunes library, it's things such as the contents of your apps (documents, files etc), emails, contacts etc that are in the actual backup.
If you go to the Purchased link under Quicklinks on the right-hand side of the iTunes store homepage on your computer's iTunes :
Does music show there ? If it does then download it on your computer so that you have a copy of it.