Recently purchased song asks for authorization

A recently purchased song requires authorization before playing. All other songs purchased at the iTunes store play fine; just this one song does not. If I follow the protocol I get the message that ' this computer is already authorized'. Tried several times, opened up the file in the Finder (Get info), to see if the account name appears correctly, but everything seems in order What to do? Anybody have an answer?

try this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1811391&tstart=0
may just have to reinstall itunes

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I just purchased a movie last night from iTunes (Tinker/Tailor/Soldier/Spy, HD).
Today, attempting to watch via my Apple TV (2nd gen) home sharing, but it's asking for authorization.
-- the movie DOES play on the computer directly
-- I've tried deauthorizing/reauthorizing the computer. (iMac)
-- Tried disconnecting home sharing & reconnecting.
-- Tried upgrading Apple TV software (upgrade was successful, movie still asks for authorization)
-- Other purchased movies play without problems.
Any thoughts?

I'd submit a bug report to the itunes customer support
Apple - iTunes - Make Request for the iTunes Store
www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

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I've jut downloaded an album via itunes, the final track on it won't play. When I click on it I'm asked to authorise it. I give the correct password and ID but then am told the computer is already authorised. From what I can see the download works fine. I use my apple account only on this computer (though I have in the past used a previous computer, that hasn't been used to acccess any itunes account for some time).
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This can be a symptom of an incomplete download. Delete the current version of that track from your library then redownload it from your purchase history.
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An album i purchased on my ipad that i also downloaded onto laptop, won't play and continually asks for authorization.. however it was authorized under the same apple id.. what do i do?

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Hey megatony87,
Thanks for the question. I understand you are having authorization issues with a purchased album on your computer. The following article may help to resolve your issue:
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
Thanks,
Matt M.

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I just purchased an album on itunes and when trying to play the songs it asks for authorization for each one. When I authorized one of the songs, it acknowledged it as a second computer. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to make itunes recognize that they are already authorized?

I restarted itunes and now all is fine.

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When I try to play a song, it asks for authorization, then I authorize it, the message then read already authoized, so then go to play it asks for authorization...Do you have any clues?

it occurs with just some songs. I purchased 2 albums and only 1 song on each will play. the other ones get the authorization message.
Okay. If only a couple of the tracks are throwing that message, that suggests that the tracks are damaged.
If your country's iTunes Store allows you to redownload purchased tracks, I'd delete your current copies of the dodgy tracks and try redownloading fresh copies. For instructions, see the following document:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Otherwise, I'd report the problem to the iTunes Store.
Log in to the Store. Click on "Account" in your Quick Links. When you're in your Account information screen, go down to Purchase History and click "See all".
Find the items that are not playing properly. If you can't see "Report a Problem" next to the items, click the "Report a problem" button. Now click the "Report a Problem" links next to the items.

HT3819 I have an iphone4s and recently purchased a 5 for my wife. If I plug her phone into my computer will the music in my player sync into her phone? When I connect it I'm prompted to chose set up a new phone or backup, not sure what to do. Her phon

I have an iphone 4s and recently purchased a 5 for my wife. When I plug her phone into our computer I'm asked if I want to set up as a new phone or back up. I'm not sure what to do her phone is already set up with an icloud account. Can I sync her phone with the player that I have installed and transfer content to her phone or will my phone be removed from the player?

Set up as new, since it newer has been connected to iTunes. Your iPhone will remain on iTunes. I have 4 different devices on my iTunes with no problems.
And regarding the sync - it will sync whatever you tell it to sync on iTunes.

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If you're syncing with a different iTunes library than the one you previously synced with, then there is no way around it. You're gonna loose the old data. The only way round it would be to make sure that all the music files on your iPhone is also in your iTunes library. If you still have access to the computer with the old library, you could copy the files on to an external harddrive, and then import them into your new iTunes library.
If it is in fact the same library, then the music currently on your iphone, is also in your itunes library. Just make sure that the artists/albums/playlists, or whatever you sync contains these tracks, that you allready have on your phone and don't want deleted. What i do is, i create a playlist specifically for my iPhone, and i set it up to only sync with this playlist. Whenever i hear a track from my iTunes library or buy a new track that i want on my phone, i just drag it to this playlist and next time i synchronize, it's there without deleting anything else.

HT2688 My daughter has used my computer to log into iTunes and download music but now it won't let me download recently purchased music from my iPad onto my computer. I want to transfer the recently purchased songs onto my iPod so how can I do this now.

My daughter has used my computer to log into iTunes and download music but now it won't let me download recently purchased music from my iPad onto my computer. I want to transfer the recently purchased songs onto my iPod so how can I do this now? iTunes now says that I have to wait another 55 days! There must be a way to do this since I have paid for them.

In iTunes sign out of your daughters Apple ID and sign in with your own.

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So I got a new computer for my birthday and decided to put on Itunes for me and my girlfriend to use. I have a huge library so I wanted to get it all redownloaded from itunes. I downloaded my songs from the cloud and noticed many were missing (recently purchased songs that I had bought over the summer, now its winter).
I know the songs are still in the cloud: Lindsey Stirling "Shadows" (example) yet it says I havent purchased it...but I know I have...
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on the computers itunes click on the iTunes Store.
then click Purchased under quick links on the right.
you can then select Not In My Library and download anything you're missing from there.

I recently purchased songs and some of them did not download to my computer but just a few seconds, all the song did not download, while other songs were perfectly fine. How do I get the full songs downloaded now?

Some of my recently purchased songs did not fully download while other songs did. Has anyone else had a problem like this? Did I do something wrong? I purchased all the same way, but only received a parcel song on about half of my purchases. Help.....

Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past music purchases, delete the broken tracks from your iTunes library, close and then reopen iTunes, go to the iTunes Store home page, click the Purchased link from the Quick Links section in the right-hand column, then select Music and Not on this computer. You should find download links for your tracks there.
While downloading select Downloads in the left-hand column and make sure Allow Simultaneous Downloads is unticked.
If the problem persists, or that facility is not yet available in your region, contact the iTunes Store support staff through the report a problem links in your account history, or via Contact Support.
See also: HT2519 - Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
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Itunes wont allow me to transfer recently purchased songs to my ipod. What do I do?

Can anyone help me? I checked the options for the ones that transfer and dont, and there are no differences...

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I recently purchased songs from my iphone. All good... But I then went to put them on my ipod touch. They seemed to have downloaded but the songs wont play and the song title/the text, appears in a grey colour and there is a downlaod symbol in front of the song title. what do i do next?? They play on my iphone and from the itunes library but not from my ipod touch.

If the songs are still on your ipod, make sure autosync is disabled in iTunes on your computer, connect and right click on it in the device list, then choose "transfer purchases" to copy all bought media and apps from your ipod to your computer.
If the songs are not on your computer and got deleted from your ipod as well, you can't get them back, unless you have a backup of your iTunes library as part of your computer backup.

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Authorization does not apply to iphones. Authorization is for computers.
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1-800-676-2775 apple support tech support 1 800 275 2273
If your computer is on one minute before it freezes, than you have one minute to secure your serial number.
click the apple----->click about this Mac ------> click on version----> until you see the serial number. You may have to do this a couple of times if it freezes before you have all the numbers. A camera might help.
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