Transferring Purchased Music

My hard drive recently crashed. Before my computer crashed I transferred all my music and files onto my ipod. I received my computer back from repair and was able to put all of my old songs on my itunes library except for the music I have purchased. My fixed computer is authorized to play the music...and I can play it if I play it from my "ipod" section in itunes. The problem is I cannot add any of these songs to my library. What can I do?

If you're trying to drag the music from your iPod to your iTunes, this isn't going to work. The iTunes program and the iPod are designed not to do this. You would most likely have to download software that will pull your music off of your iPod for you... iPodUtil and iPodCopy are decent ones. If you Google them, you should find the download sites.
CG

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Assuming your library is in the default location and all of the media is stored within the library's media folder then this is what you need to do:
Copy the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> on the source computer to <User's Music> on the target computer.
You can do this directly over a network (making use of shared network folders) or by making a copy on an external drive, moving the drive between computers, and copying again. Any way that works is good. However if you say that you cannot use Home Sharing (doesn't work properly anyway) because the source and target are not on the same network then method 2 as I describe it won't work either.
Your playlists, play counts, ratings etc. are stored inside the database iTunes Library.itl which is inside the iTunes folder and a successful migration includes all of this information, not just the media files. I recommend method 1 from the earlier link as it sets you up with a backup mechanism to use in future. All hard drives fail eventually and often without warning, or at least a warning that is noticed and then heeded.
If the initial assumption is wrong, or you need help checking, just ask.
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Transferring purchased music from iPhone to iTunes

I purchased a song on my iPhone, but it doesn't want to transfer to my iTunes when I try to drag it. Transferring purchased songs from my iTunes to my iPhone is no problem, just not the other way around. Does anyone know how to do this? I have a 3G iPhone.

Do you have Sync Music selected under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes?
If so, this is automatic, or should be. With Sync Music selected under the Music tab, after purchasing a song with your iPhone the song will be copied to your iTunes library automatically the first time you sync your iPhone with iTunes after doing so. The same applies with 3rd party apps if you have Sync Apps selected under the Apps tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes.
Are you manually managing music and video with your iPhone with this selected under the Summary tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes? If so, after music is downloaded with your iPhone it will not be copied to your iTunes library automatically the first time you sync your iPhone with iTunes after doing so since you are manually managing music and video with your iPhone, which provides no benefit with an iPhone whatsoever compared to doing the same with an iPod since an iPhone doesn't support disk mode.
If you are manually managing music and video with your iPhone, music and video is not being transferred to your iPhone automatically - it is being done manually - hence the name of the option - "manually manage music and videos". If you choose to manually manage music and videos, then you've also chosen to manually transfer any music or video that was downloaded from the iTunes store with your iPhone from your iPhone to your iTunes library.

Transferring Purchased Music on Iphone to iTunes

I recently purchased a Sony Vaio that died on me.... It just came back from Sony, like brand new.
I have my purchased music on my iPhone and haven't been able to transfer the music to the blank iTunes that I have now...... And when I try tu upgrade to the new iphone version, I get a warning that all of my music will be ERASED...
How can I tranfer my purchases from my iPhone to my BLANK iTunes?
HELP!

Plug in iPhone. Then up in File menu in iTunes, tell it to transfer purchased content.
But FIRST, log into iTunes Store on that computer so it knows your account info thus knows what to look for on iPhone.

Transferring purchased music from iphone to pc.

I am trying to transfer purchased music from iphone to pc. My phone appears in device column, but when i go to File, it does not highlite the option to transfer. What do i need to do to transfer these items from iphone to pc?

Try this:
1. Open My Computer from the desktop or Start menu.
2. From the Tools menu, choose Folder Options.
3. Click the View tab.
4. In the "Advanced settings" pane under "Hidden files and folders," make sure that the "Show hidden files and folders" option is selected.
5. Click OK.
6. Navigate to the following location by either typing it into the address bar, copying and pasting it into the address bar, or clicking through the folder hierarchy listed:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes\
7. Right-click the SC Info folder shown and on the shortcut menu, choose Delete.
8. Restart the computer.
9. Open iTunes.
10. Authorize your computer to play your purchases. Note: If you have multiple accounts you will need to authorize your computer for each account.

Transferring Purchased Music from iPhone to new hard drive

Hard-drive burned up and has been replaced. Most music was backed up, but not all. And most of the new music (that hasn't been backed-up) is on the iPhone. But I can't copy the files on my iPhone back to my new hard drive. Obviously there are security measures to keep folks from transferring files all over the place. But it seems that if it's on my iPhone, I must have obtained it legally, and there must be some accommodation for a dead hard drive.
Same question for my iPhone apps. I'd rather not pay for apps twice, and iTunes won't let me copy them from my iPhone back onto my 'puter. As soon as I sync apps, they'll all disappear, unless there's some way to convince the phone that it's looking at the old, pre-burned-up-hard-drive.
File>Transfer Purchases sort of worked, but not completely. I have about 600 songs on my iPhone, and it copied about 200 of them to my new hard drive. I have music purchased from iTunes, music copied from purchased CDs, and free downloads (Starbucks, Paste, etc). And there's no trend in what got copied and what didn't. Some of each category was copied, but not all. Very confusing that I can't find a pattern.
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Apps issue solved. Or, more accurately, it's a non-issue. iTunes prompts you that you already bought the app and can download it for free. Not so with music, I'm afraid.

Can anyone help with a problem transferring purchased music PC to mac?

I have recently moved from a PC to a macbook pro, and have previously purchased 10 or so albums from iTunes store that quite happily updated to my iPod so that I could play them.
I used iPodutil to transfer all of my music to my new mac iTunes library, reformatted my iPod for my mac, but on syncing to get all of the songs from my mac back onto my iPod, find that "these songs were purchased for another computer, and cannot therefore be downloaded to your iPod". Essentially everything that I have (ironically) legally paid for through iTunes refuses to download to my iPod because it is not the original PC I purchased them on??
Does anyone have a fix for this, or is the "switch" from PC to mac going to deny me my favourite and legally purchased tracks?
Thanks in advance
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Have you authorized your Mac to the iTunes Store account under which you purchased these tracks? If not, you need to do so, either by playing one of the tracks or by using the Authorize command under the Store menu in ITunes.
If you have, but haven't played the tracks at least for a few seconds, try than and then try transferring them to your iPod. Sometimes the authorization doesn't "take" until the track is first played in iTunes.
Hope this helps.

Problems Transfering Purchased Music

I'm having a problem transfering my purchases from my iPod to iTunes. My last computer crashed, so using it is not an option. I've authorized my new computer, but each time I try and transfer, it still says the it is not authorized. Any suggestions?

Not sure what the problem is--but you're trying to take things from your iPod back to your new computer setup, correct?
Do any of these articles/posting help?
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=797432#797432 (see post by Mac Muse)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61131
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4717269&#4717269 (see post by Jeff Bryan)

Transferring purchased music from iPod to iTunes

By accident, I deleted two albums from my hard drive. They were purchased from the iTunes store. I do have the music on my iPod though. I went through the process of making sure my computer was authorized, and then from the file menu, chose "Transfer purchases from "my iPod". It says it is syching, but I cannot find the file in iTunes, nor on my hard drive. Any suggestions?

Hi .. we do this all the time..if its downloaded music put your music into a folder.. then use the drop down "file" menu and import the folder...its really easy..but you also have to create a path for your music..this is done via "edit" drop down /preferences/advanced.. and tell it where your music folder is... other wise your music wont play... if you are using your own cd,s its even easier just put cd in.. tick selected songs.. and import cd

HT1727 Transferring Purchased Music Using iTunes

My last laptop crashed and is no longer be used. How do I go aout transferring my purchased muscic to my new laptop using iTunes? I can not access my old laptop to transfer over the songs, or else I would have already.

If you download iTunes on your new laptop , you can sign in your account from iTunes and go in you account and re-download all your purchased songs with no extra charges since now iTunes keep a record of your past purchases.
If you purchased 400 songs in the past , you can now get them again. Of course make sure you authorize your iTunes to this new laptop.

HT201272 itunes was on mac book that crashed. Did all steps to download purchased music onto new computer. Only part of my purchased music was transferred to new computer. Can't recover remainder of purchased music.

itunes was on mac book that crashed. Trying to move music and podcasts to wifes windows 7 pc. Followed all steps for importing purchased items. Only a portion of purchased music was transferred to new computer. What to do???

JustMeAndYou,
For what it's worth ...
Apple's policy is clear: iTS purchases can be downloaded only once. It is your responsibility to make back-ups . (For most people, this will involve either CD's/DVD's or an external drive .)
That being said, at their discretion they have made one-time exceptions to this policy. You can ask for an exception by submitting the form on this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/
Good Luck! But whatever the response from Apple, remember:
Your music is valuable - please back it up!

HT4527 My iPod only transferred my purchased apps, not my purchased music. Help?

I've tried to transfer my music purchases from my iPod to my new computer, using the "device>transfer purchases" option but it only transfered my app purchases, not my actual purchased music. Any ideas?

Hi SilyKim,
You can also download your purchased items again from the iTunes Store directly into iTunes on your computer:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2519
Have a good one!
- Ari

Hi. I have down loaded songs and tv shows on my i phone 4s but i can remove them from my phone. I have transfered purchases and cun ticked sync music and tv shows but still i have the downloaded contenet on my phone. Please help

I have down loaded songs and tv shows on my i phone 4s but i can remove them from my phone. I have transfered purchases and cun ticked sync music and tv shows but still i have the downloaded contenet on my phone. Please help

also must mention i have never had trouble that i couldn't fix on itunes but all of this has started since i have been using icloud for basic backups hope this helps solve problem

I bought a new computer, transferred music, but purchased music not working

I am going from a computer with 4 accounts, each having it's own iPod application and library to a new computer. I want to (a) eliminate user accounts and have one big iTunes library, and multiple users choose what music they want from that library; and (b) be able to use the purchased music.
I had no problem transfering all the music, however, because I reinstalled iTunes, and I happen to have a new email account, I created a new iTunes account. Even though I followed the directions to "Authorize this computer", the purchased music in my librarly will NOT synch up to my iPod.
Also, I've spent hours trying to figure out how to have four people share the library so I'm not duplicating the iTunes application or all that music, and I cannot figure out a way to do it. Even creating specific playlists doesn't work, it downloads all the music (that I didn't buy) anyway.
Help!!!

I've had similar issues. I purchased a MacBook, followed the instructions to transfer my library to my new machine using my iPod, and it would not sync 140 songs to the iPod.
Then, I purchased a movie from the iTunes store, it downloaded, won't play on the MacBook, and when I tried to sync it to my video iPod, it said that it couldn't sync it to the iPod because that iPod was not capable of playing videos.
I've restored it twice, reinstalled itunes, reinstalled the library. No change.

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I have transferred my itunes music to new computer, but purchased music does not appear. How can I restore purchased music? The link ´purchased´in the store does not show music, only movies and apps

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Tick Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases.
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