Transferring purchased songs to other computer

It shows that songs were purchased in my history from another computer, but they are not in my playlist library. ALso how do I guarantee that all my purchased and downloaded songs stay in my itunes account when I deactivate a computer. Getting ready to get two new computers, but there will be a few days in between i will not even have the old two that shared my account...help!!

You need to copy them from the computer you purcahsed them with to the other computer. You can use CD/DVD, external hard drive, flash drive or network the computers.
ALso how do I guarantee that all my purchased and downloaded songs stay in my itunes account
Songs don't "stay" in your account. They stay on your computer and on your backup disks. If you get rid of your computers befefore you make a backup of your songs, you will lose your songs.

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    I have a laptop, and a desktop. They both have iTunes. And they both have this problem.
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    But iTunes just tells me that all avaliable songs are downloaded.
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    If I've purchased and downloaded a song on one computer, as I understand, I'm allowed to play that song on any other computer that I've authorized. But how do I get that song from one computer to another? It seems that I just can't download it directly from iTunes again. Please help, thanks!

    Find the song that you downloaded (probably My music> itunes > itunes music > 'artist' > 'Album')
    copy it to a USB stick or something
    plug in USB stick on new computer
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    I'm in the process of saving all the information I have stored on my current computer because I'm set to receive the new iMac within a few days. I would like to transfer all my purchased music (from iTunes Music Store) to the new computer -- is it best to burn audio CDs and re-import in the new computer? Is there a way to transfer one's entire iTunes library to a new computer?

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    I have used iTunes on my iPod touch and my computer to purchase songs, but my computer has a virus and I have lost everything and now I am on a different one. I have downloaded iTunes to this computer, so is there any way that I can get the songs that I have already bought onto this computer?

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