Re: Purchase Music Again

Hello.
In the past I had multiple iTunes accounts. I have since deleted those old accounts and now just use one. I was still able to play music I had purchased on my old accounts through my computer except I bought a new computer and it is not authorized to play the old music. I tried going to the iTunes store and purchasing the songs again but the purchase button is blocked out since I had purchased those songs on an old account that isn't even authorized on my current computer. Is there a way to purchase those songs again?
thank you

It has always been very basic to always maintain a abckup copy. If you have failed to do this:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

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I presume when your hard drive crashed nothing was recoverable from it. You could try contacting the iTMS Customer Service and see if you can persuade them to allow a second download. However below is an extract from the support page which as you can see states that is you lose your music you have to buy it over again. You can email them from the "backing up your music" link on this page: iTMS Customer Service
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See Here > Download Past Purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519

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FYI: iTunes account (used to make purchases) is not the same as iTunes library (iTunes on your computer with music, movies, etc.).
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If you had the hard drive from the original machine, a backup of the same, an iPod with the media, or a subscription to iTunes Match then there would have been hope, but alas no.
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Windows 7 and Vista : \users\username\My Music\iTunes.
Windows XP : \user\Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\iTunes.

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i have in my iphone more than 150 music albums.when i tied to sunchronize my phone with the itunes i lost some of the albums ,how can i put them back into my iphone withou purchasing them again

If you synced your iPhone with the same iTunes library on the same computer you have been syncing your iPhone with, not sure how some of the music was lost. If you tried to sync your iPhone with a different iTunes library on another computer, all iTunes content on your iPhone would have been erased first, not just some.
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