Song shows as "Purchased" in iTunes and won't let me re-download it, but it doesn't show up in my Purchased list. I want the song back, don't mind re-downloading, but it won't let me

This is exactly what I needed, thank you so much! I've had this issue for the longest and I'm currently at work, so do not have access to my computer to do this through actual ITunes. I was needing to find a way to do this on my actual IPhone and you had it! I did exactly what you listed and was able to re-download all the songs that magically disappeared. Thank you so much!

The solution I amen across is actually simple and easy, ok so in iTunes you search that song and go into the songs tab, click purchase and it will ask you for your iTunes password, enter it and it will tell you that you have already purchased the song would you like to re download, click yes.

This has happened to me as well. ITunes has "hidden" the song and you need to in hide this. To unhide any songs on mac or pc open iTunes>account>View my account and scroll down to "ITunes in the cloud", it should then say Hidden purchases: Unhide any hidden, re-downloadable purchases. Then click manage to the right of it and you should be able to find any song ever purchased not in you "downloadable" library.

Go to the Account menu and select View My Account; look for the iTunes in the Cloud section and the Hidden Purchases (Unhide any hidden, redownloadable purchases) category, click the Manage link there. On the next page, hidden albums and songs will be shown with an Unhide button on each.

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Song shows as "Purchased" in iTunes and won't let me re-download it, but it doesn't show up in my Purchased list. I want the song back, don't mind re-downloading, but it won't let me <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5277219?answerId=31280788022#31280788022&ac_cid=tw123456#31280788>

I just had this problem and all you have to do is click to buy the song and you type in your password and it will tell you that you can download it for free because it's purchased

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I tried to figure this out and I couldn't restore my purchase so I went into the album on iTunes Store and downloaded the songs individually even tho it will say 1.99$ or whatever after u hit buy it will say already purchased do u want to download again.

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I had the same problem! None of the suggestions worked. I figured out how to sort it out.

Go into ITunes

Click on your Apple ID account

Veiw Apple ID

There should be a HIDDEN PURCHASED button

And all of the music is there.

Hope this works :)

Thank you very much, as you listed above, was easy and on point with what to do. I didn't do much about it for over 5 months then I did everything (except what you listed), now I am a very happy person, so thank you again.

Why do I get this message every time someone replies on this item

I don't even know what this is about and also tried to change the settings in my profile many times over

but it keeps coming

is there no way of getting rid of whole profile ?

Could have saved yourself a lot of time if you had just taken the time to read the "Helpful" responses which show up on the first page of the thread. The solution was there, and was re-posted repeatedly throughout the thread. ....

GB

This is one of those ridiculous Apple problems that should just be solved. Most likely, Apple likes the extra revenue from people re-purchasing songs? I don't know, anyway. For me, the solution was to go to iTunes->Preferences->Downloads and select "Music" under Automatic Downloads. Suddenly, the songs that were grayed out (unavailable for download) suddenly all became available for download, when I went back to the album in iTunes. I am so amazed that this is fixed, I will send up several extra prayers to the Apple gods tonight. Thank you, oh perfect beings of business.

Incidentally, once you've done this, go to Store tab in iTunes. Then click the small text "purchased" on the right side. Then look for each album with a little iCloud download icon on it, and click the icon. This will download it to your computer. Finally, all the albums you have payed good money for will be available on your computer. What a concept.

jamaicaplain2002 wrote:

This is one of those ridiculous Apple problems that should just be solved. Most likely, Apple likes the extra revenue from people re-purchasing songs?

Except that you can't re-purchase it, remember? (see the title of thread) 🙂

GB

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, but this is a user to user technical support forum. So, if you are posting here, you should be providing us with information about what your specific issue is. Ranting for the sake of ranting is against the TOU of this forum. Do you have a question?

GB