iTunes

[wetcat007]

I heard a year or so ago that itunes allowed you to download songs up to 3 times when u purchased it so if something happened to the file, you would be able to retrieve it. However, i just tried doing so myself for the first time and noticed you can not. Does anyone know if it used to allow 3 downloads, and apple changed it, or if it has always been this way.

 

[Dimmu]

Well, you can move your locked files that you bought off of iTunes to up to 5 other computers and authorize to burn and play them, but I think you can only d/l them once.

EDIT: Grammar

 

[EyeMWing]

You can redownload if you contact Apple, explain the situation and ask nicely. Otherwise, you're SOL. Which is exactly why I refuse to endorse iTunes or any other DRM'd music store.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
You can redownload if you contact Apple, explain the situation and ask nicely. Otherwise, you're SOL. Which is exactly why I refuse to endorse iTunes or any other DRM'd music store.

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That's like staying away from Circuit City or Bestbuy Because they won't give you a new CD because you lsot yours...

okay okay...it's not EXACTLY the same, but in this day and age where intellectual and data-oriented property is many times as valuable as a physical equivalent, it's damn near close..

 

[sniperruff]

well this guy last time explained it pretty well... what if you bought 100 CD's and you lost them? you expect EMI and SONY to give you back the CD's? it's a nice gesture if they do replace mp3's, but i hate it when people get angry if they can't get their mp3's back.

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: sniperruff
well this guy last time explained it pretty well... what if you bought 100 CD's and you lost them? you expect EMI and SONY to give you back the CD's? it's a nice gesture if they do replace mp3's, but i hate it when people get angry if they can't get their mp3's back.

That is a good point, however this does give a big score to subscription based services, I'm not having an issue and only used itunes with one song to see if it would let me and it did not. Anyways i still dont get paying the same amount for music, to get a copy of music that's lower quality, and u dont recieve a hardcopy unless you make one.

So apple does have a record of what music you have downloaded i assume, so if someone were to lose their songs and they contacted apple, they generally are going to give them the benefit of the doubt? That would be nice of them.