The songs I purchased from Itunes store and was downloaded to my computer were erased. How do I recover these songs?
I have purchased about 30 songs from Itunes store and downloaded on my PC. Had it for a few weeks. When PING was introduced and was downloaded to my system, all the songs I purchased were obliterated. How can I retrieve these so I can download these songs to my Iphone that I just recently purchased? Please advise. Thank you.
Hi, Thank you for the help. I downloaded the new ITunes 10.1 as instructed. I found the Old Itunes library folder. But when I tried to import it to my current Itunes library, it gives an error message:
"The file "iTunes Library 2011-03-22.it" cannot be imported because it does not appear to be a valid exported file."
I don't know how else I can import the songs from this old library to the current Itunes library. Please advise.
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