Where is purchased music kept?

Hey everyone. So my computer just died sunday night, logicboard problem. Anyway, I had just recently bought some music from the iTunes music store, but hadn't had a chance to put it on my iPod... is there any way to retrieve it from the iTunes music store without purchasing it again?? Thanks!!

When purchasing music, you are advised to create a backup.
All sales are final, so you're normally out of luck.
Several users have reported, they were granted a re-download after explaining what happened.
Use the form at the bottom of this page
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore/lostmusic/
to explain what happened, and request a re-download of your purchases.
Be patient; it can take a couple of days.
If a re-download is granted, do backup this time.
Hope this helps.
M

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Budapest - George Ezra
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Try Me - DeJ Loaf
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Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife (album)
and possibly more.
I just purchased the new Drake album that came out this week and so far so good (meaning that it hasn't disappeared yet).
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1. updating iTunes Match
2. signing out of iTunes and signing out on my iPhone
and
3. turning iTunes Match off then back on my iPhone
Is there anything else that I can do or do I need to contact Apple about this??

Hi
Read this http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT2519
Does this help?
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Correct. it does not magially appear in other places. It will only be where you put it.
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Correct as well. Iphone will sync with one computer at a time. Syncing to another will erase the current content.
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I am using iTunes 5 (5.0.0.35) and want to reinstall it as I get the following error message from the iTunes Setup Assistant when iTunes starts up:
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two-and-a-half answers here. you might want to get independent confirmation of my answer to (3).
(1) if you mean what i think you mean by CD-text, i'm afraid you're out of luck with itunes. see:
http://discussions.apple.com/click.jspa?searchID=-1&messageID=607302
(2) to use protected AACs (music store purchases) in other applications, first you need to burn them to an audio CD and then reimport them from the CD in a compatible file format.
(3) i'm pretty sure that itunes only burns closed sessions on CD-RWs. so to use the CD-RW again for burning with itunes, you'd need to erase it first (with some other utility).
(would someone else mind confirming or denying or expanding on my answer to 3? i've lost track of the threads where i've seen this discussed, and i'm working from possibly-fallible memory.)
hope this helps.
love, b

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