Re authorizing computer to play purchased music?

SO, ive bought a few things from itunes, and then my computer was having problems so we backed everything up and then wiped it and re installed everything like it was new. When i put the music back on it said i had to authorize my computer to play the music ive purchased on my account, and i did but then it told me i had authorized 2 of the 5 computers im allowed to authorize. Is there any way i can fix that? cus really this is the same computer, so when i get a new one ill be on my third "authorization" and thats not quite right...

ohhh ok so i can only fix it once im up to my full 5 computers? alright well now ill rememeber to un authorize this one before i get rid of it. So in the case taht your computer just completely crashes before you can do antyhing you just have to wait till youre up to your full 5 authorizations to do anything about it?

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I am having a hard time with itunes and re-authorizing my computer to play purchased videos on my macbook pro currently running lion and the latest version of itunes. The problem is that i am repeatedly asked to authorize my computer to play the movies that i have purchased from the itunes store. i have done this about 30 times already and i should only have to do it once. I wouldnt care if i had to do it once it a while, but i get frustrated with it when i am traveling and do not have the ability to re-authorize (like on a plane). i wanted to buy the movies on itunes so i could have them available when i travel. i contacted itunes support and they told me that i should sign out of itunes on all my devices (macbook pro, ipod touch 4th, and iphone 4) which i did with no luck. please help me to resolve this problem. any help would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

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Updated my bios, and I had to authorize my computer to play purchased music

did updating bios (in a dell inspiron 5150) change my Computer's identity or something? Thank goodness I had one spot left of computers to authorize.
Is there a way I can make it so this is (again) my primary machine?

I'm not sure what you mean by "primary machine"; the iTunes Music Store doesn't keep any sort of heirarchy of authorized systems. But this may help with the extra authorization:
One computer using multiple iTunes Music Store authorizations
And if you've reached five authorizations for your iTMS account, there will be a button in your iTunes Music Store account information that will allow you to deauthorize all systems associated with that account. Log into your iTMS account and you should see it. You can then reauthorize the computers you're using now.

Authorizing computers and playing purchased music

Hi,
I think I do not understand what authorizing is.
What I would like to do is to be able to play music I have purchased on multiple computers -- it seems like I can't download the music a second and third time, so I assume that I would have to put songs on a flash drive or email them to myself to put them on another computer.
So then do I need to authorize those other computers in order to play those transferred songs? Is that how this works?
Thanks,
Matt

If those other computers are not authorized, you won't be able to play them in their original form anyway. Burn them as an audio CD & import them that way. You can have 5 computers authorized.
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About iTunes Music Store authorization and deauthorization
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Problems authorizing computer to play purchased tracks.

I, too, appear to be one of the unfortunate souls who upgraded to iTunes 7.3.1 (3). I can open iTunes just fine, and all my purchased tracks and playlists are still there. However, when I try to play a purchased track, I get the following message: "This computer is not authorized to play...Would you like to authorize it?" So I type my password and click on authorize. But then I get the following message: "There was an error in the iTunes Store. Please try again later." Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is there really a problem with the iTunes Store? Or is the problem with iTunes?

I did a search of other questions for iTunes and found a fix to this problem. It involved fixing permissions. I wish I had more details, but I can't remember all the details. You will need to search the other questions.

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I bought a song from itunes from my laptop at work, and when i authorised it to play on that machine, it said i had used 2 of my 5 computers... when i moved it over to my desktop at work and authorised it, it said i had used 4 of my 5. I had only authorized it for 2.
Now this morning, i started up itunes at home, and started playing an album i bought from this computer and resides ONLY on this computer. I was asked for my password and it came back saying i had used 4 of my 5 computers.
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Have any of the computers you are currently using had any major repairs such as a motherboard replacement? Have any of them ever had an OS re-install? If so, iTunes will view this as a new computer requiring authorization. You may do a "deauthorize all" once per year, so I wouldn't worry about it until you are told that you have 5 authorized systems, then "deauthorize all", reauthorize only the ones you need.

ITunes says my computer is not authorized to play purchased music

This is false.
I've already authorized it. The computer in question is my work computer and the window of opportunity to gain access (to the internet) in order to authorize that computer is few and far between.
Said computer will play some music I've purchased, but not others.
Is there SOME way around having to access the 'net in order to authorize this computer? Which I have already authorized.
Message was edited by: FreakOfNature

Said computer will play some music I've purchased, but not others.
Is it possible that the tracks that won't play were purchased through a different iTunes Store account? A computer must be authorized to each iTunes Store account used to purchase tracks you want to play. If you Get Info on the problem tracks, it will show you what account was used to purchase those tracks.
Is there SOME way around having to access the 'net in order to authorize this computer?
Sorry but no, there isn't. A computer must be able to access the iTunes Store at least briefly to be authorized. Otherwise the only way around the problem would be to burn the tracks to audio CD on another computer (one that can be authorized) and take those CDs to work.

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