ITunes on Mac won't play transferred songs purchased by same account on PC

I have recently transferred my iTunes library from a PC to a Mac (using my iPod as a hard drive). However, when I open up iTunes on my Mac, I am told that certain songs (all of the ones purchsed from the Music Store from the PC) are not authorized to be played on the Mac. I can only play songs I downloaded myself from cds. My purchased music still appears int he library, but I am not "authorized" to play it. Also, this is only the second computer I have used my iTunes on. How can I get this Mac authorized to play the songs I purchased?

Search the iTunes help files on the Apple support pages as I am sure there is lots of info about authorzing other computers.
But off the top of my head, one work around to this issue is to simply burn an audio CD on your PC with a playlist of your purchased songs or how ever many CDs you need to do it (CD-RW discs might be a good tool for this). You can then put those CDs into your Mac and import the tunes and now the "authorization" info/protection will have been stripped from them and you won't have that issue with them anymore.
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