iTunes Purchased Music not "authorized" after Migration

I can't shed any light on the subject (so this is one of those "why'd you post" posts), but I am experiencing the same thing. You're not alone! If you do get assistance, it'd be helpful to at least one other if you post it here.
Good luck!

Have you by chance used more than 1 apple id to purchase your music? If so, then the computer needs to be authorized for all the ids you have used. I used 2 so I authorized mine for both.

Glor

Unfortunately, no, that isn't the case.
Not sure that this sheds any light, but all the songs that won't play were purchased via iTunes on another computer, but that computer as well as the one I'm on now were already authorized with iTunes (I've only used 2 of my 5 options).
Just as an aside, this is the only/MAJOR downside of using iTunes. Regardless of how protective and big brother they want to be, in the end I purchased the music so it's mine. Let me be a big boy and protect it as I see fit. This is extremely frustrating.

That isn't the issue either. I have my music on 3 computers and and they work on all the computers. All I had to do was authorize all the computers and everything worked. You seem to be having another problem somewhere.

Glor

Hi Seehad,

Have you contacted the RIAA and expressed your frustration over the DRM that Apple is required to enforced on purchased music content? That might be something you wish to pursue as you feel strongly about the issue.

Onto the matter at hand... I've definitely encountered a similar problem and the root of the issue was "keychains" related to my iTunes. Here's what you can try.

1.) Copy a few of the purchased songs to a thumb drive or the "public" folder on your user. Make a new administrative user on your computer, launch iTunes and authenticate/authorize. Drag that song from the original user's public folder to your iTunes music library under the new user. It should play... if it does then we know it's a keychain/securities issue.

2.) If it does not, the next step I had to do was to perform an Archive & Install on the computer. Even after a successful migration assistant, somehow a permission/keychain/509 security anchor prevented me from authorizing and playing content on my iTunes.

Let's try step 1, first, see what we get for results. If necessary the "first aid utility" in the keychain access manager might be able to assist us.

In iTunes do a Get Info and see what the Account Name is.

I am having the same problem with the same Mac model. How do I dump the software and preferences and recover?

boloney,

The solution you posted seems easy enough (delete a few items), but I'm hesitant to jump in without a more detailed explanation.
Is the solution you found really as easy as it seems? Would you mind being more specific, as possible, of the solution you found?

Many thanks!