Just purchased a new pc. Downloaded Itunes. Downloaded some new music. Went to add the new music to my iphone off my new computer but it wants to wipe all of my existing music which has been purchased from itunes. HELP! What should i do?

Kford_red wrote:
Feel a bit gutted as spent £££'s downloading music tonight and not been able to get the songs onto my phone so far!
The music you just downloaded tonight to your new computer is safe. The music you purchased on your phone is safe. You shouldn't feel gutted. It's your other music that you should have taken better care of. That would include any music you ripped yourself or purchased outside of iTunes. That you can't get back.
It has always been the user's responsibility to back up and protect downloaded music. If you didn't have a backup of your computer before it started acting funny, that's your fault. It would be no different than if you lost a music CD. It would not be a record store's responsibility to replace if you lost it. Digital music is no different. Similarly, a phone is not a backup medium. Phone's break, get misplaced or stolen all the time and are not a substitute for a backup copy of your music and media.
Computers WILL break. Hard drives WILL fail. That's why you back up your data.

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