ITunes IS ERASING MY PURCHASED MUSIC

Every month or so I discover an album or song missing. I haven't backed up my music in a while, and when I did an update on my iPod, the song was missing too. How do i get back my old muic? Do I have to rebuy everything I lost?
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Have you done a Windows "search" of your HD for the missing music? The file extension for purchases is .m4p, which you can use the extension to search by. If you can't locate the purchased files are your HD, you may be out of luck as store policy states that downloads are a one time deal & it's the user's responsiblity to backup important files.

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