Some matched, some purchased songs

As I'm very near my 25000 song limit, I thought I'd splash the extra 50p to buy an album from iTunes rather than Amazon. That way it would appear on my iOS devices via iTunes Match. However, the download failed, some songs were not authorised to play on this computer, some songs appeared as Purchased, some as Matched. I deleted the unauthorised ones and found a link in the Store to redownload these, but they appeared as Matched. I spent nearly an hour faffing with this last night, when all I wanted to do was snooze to my new album!
Now I'd just bought hese songs from Apple, so how can they be only Matched? How do I convert them to be actually Purchased please?
Latest iTunes, Lion on iMac.
Ta

You don't say anything about the source or nature of the album files you are using. I believe the song tags have to Match identically. I believe they also use an audio fingerprint to see if the sound characteristics match.

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Dear Apple community, some purchased songs from iTunes store are not shown in the album, how can I download them?

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I already looked through this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
However my itunes does not display the 'library' icon. Some help would be greately appreciated!
Cheers!
Andy

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Hello there, Gemss.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up some great recommendations for the issue you're describing:
iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
Although all of the scenarios may be applicable, many folks find that the following section helps resolve their issue most often:
Authorize using the correct account name
The items you're trying to play might have been purchased using a different iTunes Store account. To determine which account was used to purchase an item, follow these steps:
Select a purchased song in your library and choose File > Get Info.
Click the Summary tab. Note the Account Name that appears in the list. This is the account name (Apple ID) you'll need to use when authorizing your computer to play this purchase.
Note: The account name that appears is the one you used when purchasing the item and does not change if the account name (Apple ID) changes.
If you've authorized the Apple ID that is shown in the Summary tab, you can check the purchase history for that Apple ID from Store > View My Account. If your purchase history does not reflect the purchase of the items in your iTunes library, consider any other Apple ID you may have created, and authorize the computer for your additional Apple ID.
If you forgot the password to one of your accounts, you can recover it using Apple's password-recovery website.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Some purchased songs skipping

some of my purchased songs sort of skip or play slow when i play them on itunes but they work fine on my i pod. My non purchased songs all play fine just some of my purchased songs. Completely uninstalling i tunes did not work. Deleting one of the song from my i tunes library and letting my i pod put it back into itunes did not work. I have a song that i have purchased from i tunes and the same song also came off of a CD that i have and the song from the CD works fine just the itunes purchased one "skips". This all seemed to happen when i downloaded the newest version of i tunes. How can i fixed this or am i just out of luck with these purchased songs?

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iTunes 11 for Windows: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12491
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH12283

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Last week, I purchased around 9-10 songs. The previous day, I had played songs from my iTunes library... everything working normal. The day after purchasing those 9-10 songs... I noticed that my entire songs in my library (and playlist) where gone, essentially being re-set like new. I updated my iTunes version, re-started my PC and still... nothing was showing up except those 9-10 songs. I did the next logical thing which was to check the actual music folder that stores the songs. They where all there. It did not make any sense as I had not done or noticed anything unsual while using iTunes before. Now, I want to mention that I use a DJ software (mixvibe) with the ION Discovery DJ that pulls tracks from iTunes. For the past couple of months they both have worked great. Fast forwarding to my issue, I went ahead and copied all the music back to iTunes. I spent a good hour making sure that everything worked and re-created my playlists. One thing that struck me as odd was that while checking everything... some songs that I had purchased recently and even a couple of months ago that I've used on my mixvibe software... had the track info deleted. The only information was the track name, ex. (01 - Bird One). For some reason, they were dumped into a "Unknown Artists" file. There was a good 20-25 songs that had this issue. The one thing that I noticed was that when I would highlight the song within the Uknown Artist folder... All of the information including cover art was showing up at the bottom of the folder (if you are familiar with Windows 7 you know what I'm talking about). How can it be that all of the actual information was still there yet not showing up in iTunes? I had to manually go one by one of those 20-25 songs and add all of the track info (as much as I could). I was also able to recover some of the cover art but not all. It seems like the files got corrupted. Can I re-download these tracks again or how can I get them to how they were originally? HELP!

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Some of my music purchased either via itunes or iphone, will not play on iphone. also, when you select a song to play it will jump and play another song. i have tried synching, but still not working. can play all songs on computer via itunes. has anybody else had this issue? many thanks in advance for any assistance.

I have the same problem. I upgraded to a 4S and did a restore from iCoud. Everything loaded but many songs will not play and others jump to another song. I made sure my new phone was authorized (click on Store with the iPhone selected in the left column of iTunes and then click on Authorize this computer) I also reset the iPhone by holding the Home and Power buttons simultaneously. No improvement.
This seems to be a problem relatd to the chip set in the specific phone. My iPhone 4 had no problem with the same list of songs.
Heading back to the store.

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just a minute ago i connected my iphone to itunes so that i could transfer some albums i've purchased recently. it started it's usual synching process and once it was finished i found i'd lost more than a few recently purchased albums. not sure why or anything but i want them back!! how do i do so? please help!!

You don't. You buy one and only one download. it is your responsibility to move/copy/backup your music.
It has always been very basic to always maintain a backup copy of your computer files/docs/pics/music/etc.
Use you backup copy to put everything back.
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I migrated my music library to a new computer by moving the entire iTunes folder from the old computer to an external hard drive then to the new computer. When I synced my iPhone using the new computer, everything synced fine the first time except for an error saying three songs could not be converted properly. When I try to play the songs in iTunes, it tells me they are not authorized to play on the new computer then asks me to login to authorize (even though I already had logged in beforehand). Even after logging in again they won't play. The tracks won't play on the iPhone either.
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Assuming you are in a region where you are allowed to redownload your past music purchases, delete the broken tracks from your iTunes library (but do not hide from iCloud), 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 in My Library. You should find download links for your tracks there.
While downloading click the small download activity widget near the search box and make sure Allow Simultaneous Downloads is unticked. This may improve the reliability of subsequent downloads.
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:
Backup your iTunes for Windows library with SyncToy
HT5085: iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match Availability
HT2519: Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
tt2

SOME purchased songs won't download

This has probably already been asked and answered, but I can't find it.
The following is my inquiry to Apple:
"I have purchased tens of thousands of songs, representing thousands of albums over the past few years. During the past year & a half, I have accumulated 220 songs which refuse to download. That is the number showing in "Downloads," just below "Purchased," When I attempt to download them, I always get the following message:
"Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later." EVERY TIME.
I don't get this message or any other message whenever I browse thru the store, or purchase more music or apps.
There must be a way for iTunes to make these 220 songs, which I have paid for, downloadable. If this is not possible, then I respectfully request a credit or refund."
Hopefully, one of you has an answer or helpful input.

You can submit the request to iTunes Customer Service at their web page.

Some purchased songs not transferring.

I have two songs that I have purchased that will not transfer to my library. I have since purchased one more and it transferred just fine. I have tried deauthorizing and then authorizing and that has not worked either. Any suggestions?

I'm having the same problem. I have a lot of songs I've downloaded straight to iPhone over the last few months. After updating the firmware to 2.2 last weekend I've been unable to transfer the songs to iTunes on my PC.
Like others, the songs show on iTunes only under the actual iPhone/Music list. They play fine from there and from the iPhone itself - ie, they're on the iPhone. But when I try to 'Transfer Purchases from iPhone' I get a -1303 error telling me the attempt failed (usually without transferring any songs, but rarely transferring one).
When I try to see the songs on the iPhone using third-party software like Winamp or sharepod I can only see those already transferred - which appear under a 'Purchased' playlist.
I initially restored the iPhone to a recent backup. Then I uninstalled/resinstalled iTunes. I was going to try another restore but got a warning stating that I had files which hadn't yet been transferred and proceeding would wipe them out and I'd be forced to repurchase them.
Has anyone got a solution or at least an explanation for this?
Corey: Could you verify for me if the solution you got from support has meant your iPhone can now transfer songs downloaded to it as it's supposed to? It sounded like they just gave you credit to repurchase your songs through iTunes, waited for you to wipe the copies on the iPhone off and that was it. I don't really want to be forced to use iTunes on my PC exclusively to download - it defeats the purpose of having iTunes on the phone.

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I have a handful of songs (about 38) I purchased in the i-tune store all of which are un-protected AAC audio files which played fine when originally downloaded but now play at close to twice speed. And not just in i-tunes. I've tried moving a file and playing it in a different audio player but still plays fast. The rest of my library (protected or not) plays fine. After sycning my i-pod now the songs that are playing fast in i-tunes are now playing fast in my i-pod. Crupted files? If so how? And can any of this be fixed? The i-tune's version is 10.2.2.14 on windows xp

Are these songs/albums purchased from the iTunes Store?
If so, is your computer authorized? From the "Store" menu in iTunes, click on "Authorize computer...".
Try deleteing, and reloading the songs back onto your iPod after authorization.
If this attempt doesn't help, you may want to try restoring your iPod. This may clear off internal issues with your iPod when it comes to playing these certain songs.
Restoring your iPod
-Kylene
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