Click on the amount, as if to purchase, and you should receive a response to the effect of “you have already purchased this song would you like to download?” Problem solved. ![]() When song appears within the search results, it appears as if you have not purchased it. With more obscure artists, you may have to enter the song title and the artist name. ) The trick is when going to the iTunes store, don’t search by artist album rather search for the song title. (If you search by album, the song will show as “downloaded” while the other songs show “play.” Clicking on the “downloaded” button does nothing. I learned through trial and error to search for the song in the iTunes store by song title. This did the trick! I’ve run into situations where I purchased an album but a song latter goes missing, from iTunes and album folder in the Files folder. (If you want to download all songs from an album that you’ve purchased, click on the button to switch to the “Album” view.)Īny questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Once you’ve located the music you are looking for, tap the download button From the Purchased tab, tap the artist name for the content you intend to download againĦ. Tap Purchased from the bottom navigation bar in the Features categoryĥ. Make sure you are signed in with the same account used for the original purchaseĤ. Delete the song in iTunes to remove from your library and hard driveģ. Those did not work for me, so what I did to fix this issue was very simple.ġ. I tried the options from ( ) iTunes repeatedly prompts to authorize computer to play iTunes Store purchases 1 Problem thou, one of the songs would not play, I kept getting the error message: iTunes – “not authorized to play on this computer” Well, today (2/5/12) I bought an album Wester – Danger Music, everything was downloaded and added to my iTunes. When I try to authorize it, it takes my password XXXXX however, does not actually authorize it. My computer says it is not authorized to play certain songs. Ive seen messages all over google pretty much about: ![]() Run Google Music Manager and follow the instructions.Songs bought in iTunes “not authorized to play” – FIX!!!! This is a bit like the old iTunes music subscription service where it uploads your songs to the cloud. Step 3: Upload all your music to the cloud. I moved a stack of old talks all out of my iTunes folder and put them in a different folder on my computer so that Google Music Manager did not copy them.Īnother thing you might like to do is use the menu item ‘File: Library: Show duplicate items’ in iTunes to delete any duplicate files that you have. This means if you have things in your iTunes folder that Google won’t recognise (for example I have lots of talks that I have recorded) it will take a lot of your bandwidth to upload them all. For example if you have Abba ‘ Fernando’ Google will recognise this song and put Abba ‘Fernando’ onto your Google playlist, but it won’t need to upload the song from your computer because it already has the song. It matches your songs and does not upload songs that are already in the Google cloud. Move any large files that you don’t want out of your iTunes folder. It’s worth doing a bit of a clean up before this happens. Google music manager is going to copy all your Apple iTunes songs to the Google cloud and then across to all your other devices. From there, you will be able to upload your music from your iTunes folder.Ĭlick on ‘Upload music’ to upload your songs from iTunes to gain access to the Google music manager application.īefore you upload your music it’s a good time to get organised! Selecting upload music does not upload your music! Instead, it will take you to a screen where you can download the music manager application to your desktop OS X computer. Go to the menu on the left of Google play and select “Upload music”. ![]() Go to and sign in to Google Play using your Google account. Step 1: Download the Google play music manager onto your computer. You need the “Google play” app for your iOS device and there is a “music manager” app that runs on your computer. Google have a music syncing solution called Google play. Tired of being asked to subscribe to Apple music all the time? Tired of not being able to sync your iTunes songs across multiple computers easily? Google has a solution that will sync your songs across your iOS devices and your home computer, and you can easily manage which songs get synced and which don’t, and you have full control over settings like whether you want to be able to stream songs over your phone data network or Wi-Fi etc.
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