Purchased Music can no longer be played b/c it's no longer in my Library

I think that through the various moves my iTunes library has made from one computer to another, I may have lost some songs. These were purchased through the iTunes. If I still have my receipt, is there some way of downloading it again?

Use the form on this page to request a free redownload, or use the Transfer Purchases feature. If neither of these works, you will need to purchase the songs and other content again to get them back; Apple needs to pay the copyright holders for each download from the iTunes Store other than podcasts and album artwork.
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It all depends on exactly how you move the library from one machine to the other. The database holding information about your library is normally in a folder called iTunes, with the media in a subfolder called iTunes Media. In this layout you can usually copy the entire iTunes folder from one machine to the other and it will work. If the media folder is split to a new location however then often the links to tracks will fail on a new computer.
You shoud find that the FindTracks script is able to repair the links in your library.
I'm not sure I know what is going on with the purchased music, however if you enable Edit > Preferences > Store > Automatic Downloads > Music you should be able to recover your past store purchases.
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If I Delete Purchased Music can I Get It Back, or do I have to Repurchase?

my computer got really messed up, so i did a full system recovery and lost everything. purchased music and all. can i get my purchased music back for free? i would hate to have to rebuy

See the information that Niel & I posted on the following thead. I must emphasize, again, that it the USER'S RESPONSIBILITY to BACKUP important files.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1040875&tstart=0

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I have loaded an itunes gift card to my itunes account and it will not let me purchase any music can anyone help with this

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If you log into into your account is the card still shown . On your computer's iTunes you should be able to edit your payment info by going into the Store > View Account menu option and logging into your account, and on your account's details page there should be a payment link. If you are doing it on your phone then tap on your id in Settings > iTunes & App Store and tap on 'View Apple ID' on the popup and log into your account - that should also give you a payments link on your account's page.
Changing payment info : Change or remove your payment information from your iTunes Store account (Apple ID) - Apple Support

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I'm trying Authorize my work computer to play my purchased iTunes songs from my iPod, No Luck. It's just keeps asking to authorize, I authorize then it say it was successful.
Try to play and it asks me again...again...again.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.3.9 on a DUAL 1GHz PowerPC G4
iTunes 7.1.1
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-Rick
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I tried all of these steps, but I'm still not getting the Ipod updater to even recognize that my Ipod is plugged in.
The computer is recognizing that the Ipod is plugged in, and it opens Itunes 5.0 like usual, but after I connected my Ipod to sync for the first time since installing 5.0 it erased like 200 songs off my ipod, and says that
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every time i try to get those songs back on. I believe the songs it erased are ones I purchased from the Music store.
Recap:
1. Ipod is being recognized and can be seen in Itunes.
2. Itunes says my ipod software is too old to load some songs from my library.
3. Ipod updater 2005 9_06 will not recognize that my ipod is connected to my computer even though it shows up perfectly on my desktop and in Itunes.
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=826020&tstart=0

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2 - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304082
3 - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93434
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ITunes for Windows freezes when importing a library. I have a large but not huge library of mostly iTunes purchased music on two authorized computers and would like to sync the files, export the library as a playlist, and import it on the other computer.

I am running iTunes for Windows 10.2.2 on Windows 7 Home. I have my iTunes library on both this computer and another authorized machine running Windows 7 Professional. I have a large but not enormous library, as I'm one of those people who doesn't pirate, use torrents, borrow from a dozen friends, or whatever other shades of gray you might imagine. It's mostly iTunes purchases with my old CD collection imported. I have started using the following technique to sync my libraries between my two authorized computers, an ability which you can probably all agree should one day be added to iTunes -- that would be different from Home Sharing, because the music would be stored locally and thus available on the road. With the added benefit of the entire library being backed up on the other machine in real-time. Anyway, when I switch from my desktop to laptop and vice versa, I use the following technique:
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Run Microsoft SyncToy to synchronize the files between both music libraries; the most recent files win. This avoids copying the entire multi-gigabyte library over the network.
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Delete all the duplicate playlists named "Music," "Genius," "Purchased," and "iTunes DJ."
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I discovered that purchased music can apparantly only be downloaded to one computer.
Correct
I thought it could be shared with up to five computers!?!
Also correct. If you want the tracks on another computer, you need to copy them there. See:
iTunes: How to copy music between authorized computers
And if you happen to also own an iPod:
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer

Purchased Music can no longer be played b/c it's no longer in my Library

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