Itunes plus music no loner plus

Ok, so I have purchased songs from the itunes store that were considered plus music. this music i was able to burn to a mp3 cd. however my laptop crahsed and i lost everything. the good thing is , is that all my music was on an external HD. after re-format and then re-installing itunes and adding the musci I no longer have a purchased music playlist and all my music that i purchased no longer is an itunes plus file. how do i fix this?

If the thing you burned was in fact an MP3 CD, then the files must have gotten converted to MP3. If so, when you re-added them to the library, you were adding MP3s, which iTunes will not recognize as iTunes Plus. However, if that is your only copy, you might as well play them and enjoy them.

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