Lost music purchased on iTouch

One feature I love about my iTouch is that I can purchase music straight off of my iTouch; however, when I do connect it to a computer it tends to disappear. I have called and was told that the music goes into my library, but I can't find it there. I can find the proof of purchase, but I can't find the songs in my library. I have iTunes on my home and work computers.
What am I doing wrong? Where could my music be? Or should I just purchase music from my computer and know it goes in that library?

Yeah, this is a common issue, unfortunately.
What you can do, to try to stop it, is, as soon as you plug your iPod into your computer and it is recognized, right click (or ctrl-click on Mac) on the device name in iTunes and select "Transfer Purchases." This will force any purchased content that is on the iPod, but not in iTunes, down to your hard drive. Since I started doing this (6 months ago), I haven't lost anything.
As the other poster said, if you speak to Apple, they should allow you to redownload the songs for free. If they didn't offer that, I would give them another call.
Hopefully the "transfer purchases" thing will help you stop this in the future. And maybe eventually they will fix it.

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Hey all.
Have a slight problem with tracking down my music purchases on my iTouch.
I downloaded a full album, by Adema, listened to it happily this morning.
Only now I've realised as I've gone to put it back on, I only have three songs, of the album, left on my iTouch.
Not quite sure why this has happened, checked my purchase history to clarify I wasn't going insane and yep it clearly states I've purchased and downloaded the entire album.
Had a little look about, but couldn't find anything to help resolve this problem, so if anyone would be kind enough to point me in the right direction of be able to resolve this I'd be very greatful.
Thanks all.
P.S Bare in mind I downloaded these straight through the iTouch, so I have no copy of them on my iTunes, that is on my laptop.

Do you have the iPod set to automatically Sync?
If you do then the music should have been copied back to iTunes when you connected the iPod.
Note that tracks are removed from the Store Purchased Playlist on the iPod when they are synced to iTunes. if you want them on the iPod then you need to make sure they are included in the sync settings you have set up for the iPod.
Check on iTunes under the Album name rather than the Artist name as well sometimes there can be different Artists on the same album so they do not appear together on the iPod in the Artist area.
Ian

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It seems that I've lost my music purchased list and I'm wondering if there's anyway of retrieving it through Apple?

Sorry, but I'm not clear on what you're asking. Do you mean that the Purchased playlist is gone? If that's what you mean, just create a new Smart Playlist with Kind = Protected AAC audio file. That will recollect all your purchased music.
If that's not what you meant, please post back and explain your difficulty further.
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Not the iphone back up.
Everyone should always keep a back up copy of their important info on an external source - external drive, flash drive, dvd, cd, etc.
If you do not back up, you will likely lose it at some point.
Itunes prompts you to back up on occasion. You can click "Support" at the top of this page and type back up. You can use the help feature in itunes.
You can copy the entire itunes folder.
Please back up. I am amazed that some do not back up their info.
It will save a lot of frustration in the future.

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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Or you can use third-party software like Phone to PC to transfer your music.

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You should use your backup copy of your computer to put everything on the new computer.
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