Songs not authorized for transfer

What do I do??? New nano and I tried to initially transfer my library (only 70 songs) to it but 69 of the songs say "songs not authorized for transfer on this computer"... What do I do>????? Something with my iMac???? Good god... This is not easy sometimes...

Hmm... I don't have a Mac computer but usually when songs aren't authorized to be transferred it is because you bought them on iTunes with a certain account and that account isn't the same one used on the new computer. All you have to do is go to the top of the iTunes screen after opening it up and go over to the 'Store' -> 'Authorize Computer'. Then a prompt should come up for you to type in the AppleID or the AOL ID that you used to buy the songs. This will let you play and use the songs on your current computer. However, only 5 computers can be authorized per ID, but a computer can also be deauthorized as well. Hope I could help!

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