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What’s a person to do when their hard drive crashes, and they lose all of the songs that they purchased from iTunes? There is no option to re-download all of your iTunes purchases offered through either iTunes or the Apple website. However, while you may get chastised for not backing up your iTunes library (which you will do from now on, right?), it is possible to redownload all of your iTunes songs purchased through iTunes again, and restore your iTunes purchases. First, it’s important to understand that Apple has a policy of not letting people download iTunes music purchases more than once per purchase, and that undoubtedly has to do with royalties that they have to pay on each download. So you get to download the song that you purchase through iTunes exactly once. And Apple strongly urges you (and rightly so) to backup your iTunes library (and of course you should always make a regular backup of all of your data). But, shift happens, and what can you do if, somehow, you lose your only copies of the songs that you have downloaded through iTunes? Well, as it happens, Apple isn’t heartless, and they do have a way for you to recover those songs that you purchased and downloaded through iTunes. But first, you have to make absolutely sure that you don’t have any copies, anywhere. Once you are really sure that those iTunes songs are gone, you can fill out a form at the Apple site, and explain your situation, and, as likely as not, they will very quickly flip a switch on your iTunes account, so that the next time you log into the iTunes store with the iTunes program, you’ll find that your iTunes selections are ready for you to download again. Just don’t abuse it, and for goodness sakes, backup your hard drive! Here’s the link: Form to request to download iTunes purchases again And while you’re waiting for your iTunes, check out the newest iPod Nano, with the built-in video camera and FM radio! Sweet! Only $139 from Amazon, and no tax or shipping!
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I’m done with itunes my music disappeared two times already the first time they let me recover my music now that it happened again they didnt let me.!
Comment by Anthony — 1/29/2008 @ 10:39 am
Thanks for the form. I will certainly give it a try. I had buying another USB stick on my list of things to do as my last one was full when my computer crashed. I backed up everything earlier this year, but not for the past five months. Naughty, naughty, I know, but it’ll be every month from now on.
Comment by jd — 11/23/2008 @ 10:39 am
I called tech support and they directed me to this form. The iPod was a birthday gift, and I was given a Visa debit card with a $50 limit I used to set up my iTunes account on my brothers computer (who lives 2000 miles away). I bought 5 Albums on iTunes while I was away on vacation for my birthday. I got home, downloaded iTunes and it synced with my computer at home which of course none of the songs were on. It’s been over a week and I’ve still not heard back from Apple about this other than the ubiquitous auto-reply form they send when you fill that out. Apparently, I got to enjoy those 5 albums for a total of 2 days before they were removed from my iPod when I returned home.
Comment by g-man — 7/8/2009 @ 8:34 am
Does Apple tell people why they won’t let you do it or are we guessing? I know they let you redownload apps free.
Comment by Richard — 9/10/2009 @ 1:57 pm
I Will try.
Comment by JohnnyCaraveo — 9/19/2009 @ 8:01 am
@g-man - It’s always been an unwritten rule that you can copy to, but never copy from an iPod. You should have burned your music to a disc or copied it to a flash drive as well as putting it on your iPod. Luckily, there’s always the email or file transfer solution to get the music from over at your brother’s place (if he hasn’t deleted it yet).
@anthony - Chances are that your music is still there, but iTunes software does get stupid from time to time and you have to delete your database files.
Comment by Bill — 11/3/2009 @ 10:49 am
The link doesn’t go to a form anywhere, and I can’t find the form. Perhaps they don’t allow this for anyone anymore.
Comment by Todd — 11/20/2009 @ 7:34 am