Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'Back up your purchased iTunes4 music or buy it again!' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
Back up your purchased iTunes4 music or buy it again!
Authored by: mosch on May 01, '03 12:18:07PM

I'm a little confused about this, seeing as you're allowed to have the music on multiple machines. Couldn't you "back up" your music by simply authorizing your replacement machine, and then clicking on download purchased music?

Clearly I'm missing something here.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Back up your purchased iTunes4 music or buy it again!
Authored by: SOX on May 01, '03 12:51:40PM

Some simple scenarios that I dont know the answers to.
you have your music at work, at home and on your laptop.
say your motherboard craps out. oops now you cant
deauthenticate that machine. sure you can buy a new computer
but you cant authenticate it--sure you have the files but the
music wont play. what's the plan?

Or say apple music service goes out of bussiness. now what?
your cant authenticate any other machine.

In 5 years today's ipod's will be as exciting as a pocket
calculator: how will I get my music onto say my non-apple cell
phone or non-apple key chain?

Next year apple will migrate to the power 970 processor, and in
a few years g3s wont support the current veriosn of the OS or
upgrades to itunes. How do I authenticate or deauthenticate a
leagcy machine if I cant run the latest software?

there may be answers to these questions but I suspect its all
going to played by ear.



[ Reply to This | # ]
Back up your purchased iTunes4 music or buy it again!
Authored by: Fofer on May 02, '03 02:08:01AM

You're missing something. Once you download a file, it doesn't
stay in any queue for re-downloading. You pay, you download,
that's it. If you lose it, Apple's current party line is you have to
pay to re-download.



[ Reply to This | # ]