ReAuthorizing

[mugford1]

Help I reauthorized my computer to get my old songs from my old itunes i authorized my computer and i clicked on Check for purchases and it says i can only download once and u can put it on a cd how do i get my songs back i spent like 140 dollars on them

[Jesse Hollington]

You can only download your purchased music once, so if you did not make a backup or do not have those tracks on your iPod, you're technically out of luck.

If you do have them on the iPod, you can transfer them back from there. If you're using iTunes 7, just right-click on your iPod and choose "transfer purchases". Otherwise (if you're not using iTunes 7), you'll need to find a third-party tool that can recover them from your iPod for you.

Some people have had success with e-mailing the iTunes Store and explaining the situation and asking them politely if you could redownload your music files. There is a flag they can reset to allow you to redownload your music, although it's more of a courtesy on their part than a service that they actually offer.