Trouble with downloading purchased music between devices

I recently purchased an album on my ipad, but am now unable to see it on either my macbook pro itunes or mac mini itunes, and in the itunes under store>purchased they only show items purchased on that individual computer. I have activated the setting to show items from cloud, but it only seems to work for TV shows or Movies, it doesn't give me access to my purchased music content, unless that music was purchased originally on that device. And since the album was purchased on the ipad, it doesn't seem to be accesible anywhere unless I go through the actual iTunes Store and go to Purchased under the Manage list.
All the devices are using a single Apple ID and both Macbook Pro and Mac Mini are using iTunes 11.0.4.
Just wondering if anyone else has had trouble accessing music content universally across devices, or have I missed a step in the process to get this universal access working?

Hello there, Matt0o1,
The following Knowledge Base article has some good pointers to follow to gain access to your previously purchased content:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
The information that seems pertinent in your case would be under "Apps, Books, Music, Movies or TV shows on a computer.
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro D.

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