Trouble after Upgrading to Vista - Songs Purchased from iTunes.

So I upgraded the family laptop with Vista (unimpressed so far, but thats a different issue) and then tried use iTunes and a gift card my wife gave me. To my suprise, iTunes told me that certain songs couldn't be copied to my iPod...turns out its only songs I purchased from iTunes. All of the songs I added to the library by ripping CDs still reside on my iPod, but nothing that I've downloaded. They are still in my library, but I can't get them onto my iPod. I've spent a great deal of time and money building my music collection, how do I fix this so I can use it again!?

With an OS upgrade, iTunes will view your system as new, requiring another authorization to play purchased content. You will have to re-authorize your computer.

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http://osxdaily.com/2010/09/04/make-free-iphone-ringtones-in-itunes-10/
https://discussions.apple.com/message/17777381 - making a ringtone
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Why would you repurchase songs simply because they will not sync? Sorry, that's beyond illogical, it's simply not smart.
What happens when trying to sync these songs?
Any errors?

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Hi guys,
I need some everytime I try to download a song purchase from itunes I get the error message. 'Unable to Download Song' could not be downloaded at this time. I cannot even sync with itunes on the PC.
Kind regards
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One correction, from the icloud I was not able to listed to the entire song. So when you purchased the song if it wasn't downloaded to your library, chances are you have lost your opportunity to listen to it.

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Sounds like you might have multiple iTunes Store accounts. If you purchased that old album with a different Apple ID, it wouldn't show up in your purchase history if you are signed in to a different account. Same deal for authorizing content. If that song was purchased using a different Apple ID, you would need to use that account name and password to authorize it.
If you aren't sure which account you used to purchase an item, you can find out by following these steps:
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2) Choose Get Info from the menu that appears.
3) Click the Summary tab.
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Did you try carving a pentagram into the ground, filing it with gasoline, lighting it on fire, placing the ipod inside the pentagram, and then dancing around it naked while howling at the moon yet ?
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Sorry I cant offer a more definative answer.

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Ipads are not authorized at all. Authorization applies only to computers.
You should always make sure that everything on your ipad is also on your computer.

TS4124 Why would a song purchased from iTunes be ineligible for iCloud?

it is a protected AAC file at 128 kbps, purchased from iTunes.

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Yes to resetting and yes to new SW. I just used the new updater to load the latest version. We had the same problem with the old version.

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I'm a bit confused by your question.
You say you have synced with your iMac, and that you have match turned on. If match is turned on you can't sync music any more.
Are the purchases new, or old ones?
Can you confirm that match is turned on on both the iMac and the iPhone.

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here is an interesting thing: take the iphone and set lock screen to never. Now make an email with siri--be sure to activate her with call button. get to the body and get some text in there. then just stop talking. LOCK SCREEN APPEARS!!!!!! and of course you draft is gone.
There does seem to be a work around for some--maybe all these issues. Don't use the call button--use the buttons on the phone.
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Drew

If you have Sync Music selected under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences with iTunes, 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. If you manually manage music and video with your iPhone, it is manual all the way. You must manually copy a song purchased with your iPhone to your iTunes library. No iTunes content on your iPhone is included with your iPhone's backup. All iTunes content on your iPhone should be in your iTunes library. Music will be in your iTunes library automatically with Sync Music selected under the Music tab for your iPhone sync preferences. The same applies with 3rd party apps with Sync Apps selected under the Apps tab. A MobileMe account has nothing to do with iTunes content and provides no precaution in this regard nor does any other email account.
Different from 3rd party apps, you can download music once. There is a purchase history for your iTunes account. You can contact iTunes store customer support to explain this problem and they may grant you an exception to re-download this music with iTunes on your computer.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

TS1476 where are songs purchased from itunes stored?

I purchsed a few songs from itunes on my phone, after updating my phone, the songs are no longer there. Where can I find purchased songs?

If you are in a country where you can re-download music and they are still in the store then they should appear in the Purchased tab in the iTunes store app for re-downloading : re-downloading items.

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