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

I was stuck on this for a very long time. I couldn't figure out why things would show I purchsed but I couldn't download. Found out the songs and albums were hidden. So here's what I did to fix my issue, hopefully it will help people who come to this link and need help like I did.

1) Go to the iTunes store

2) Click on "Account" in the quick links (right side of home page)

3) Under iTunes in the Cloud, look for Hidden Purchases, then click on the link to the right that says "Manage"

4) It should show all of your "hidden" songs here. Simply click the "Unhide" button under each album

5) Go back to the iTunes Store home

6) Click on "Purchased" link in the Quick Links

All the albums that you couldn't see and download before should be there now. Hopefully this solves anybody elses issues like it did mine with this. I had to read through several forums before I found this out. Good luck all!

The same thing happened with an album to me! I had purchased the songs but it would let me play them or redownload them.

What I did was search each song individually in itunes and when I clicked to download them it said that I had already purchased them so I could download them for free. I did this for every song and it worked fine.

Hope this helps!

THANK YOU! This worked for me and I was having the exact same problem as the OP'ster. Songs come up as purchased, but it won't let you re download it.

All the other posts were of no use, but again this worked so thanks.

Still thanks to everyone else for your help as well.

Glenn

This link solved the same issue for me-
http://ipod.about.com/od/UsingiCloud/ss/Using-Icloud-To-Redownload-From-Itunes.h tm

My situation was i purchased album, but songs never downloaded (I think because there was some access privilege problem with the location of my iTunes account). I tried everything - with no luck, until I found link above-

Good luck

In one of my purchases, Sodom's Epitome of Torture, all I did was to delete the whole thing from my library and strangely the iCloud download icon showed up next to each of its songs instead. Downloaded it again.

Hi Go to iTunes store. In the Quick Link section,on the right, go to 'Purchased' and it should be there. Then scroll down to Download it. I had the same problem with the new U2 album and this is where I found it. Hope you get success.

I figured it out! Most of your old album, or song purchases are hidden therefore you can't re-download them until you "unhide" them.

1. Go to your Itunes Store

2. Click Account, under Quick Links

3. Go to the category that says Itunes in the Icloud

4. Go to Hidden Purchases and then click Manage

5. It will lead you to your music tab and all the songs that are "hidden" just click Unhide or something of that nature and viola, your old music purchases will be in your itunes library.

I have a similar issue.

I somehow deleted the music on my Mac while cleaning up and when I go to my itunes library now my purchases no longer have a download link.

New purchases are directly downloaded to my Mac but not all the music that was there before.

Same ID, same iTunes store, same country, music still available in the store, still showing in my library as purchased.

The songs that I'm missing do not show up under not in my Library.

Songs that are supposedly in my library can't be played and itunes asks me to locate them on my Mac, which it can't as they are no longer there.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your reply but that doesn't help at all.

The problem is that these songs show up as in my library under Purchased but they are not actually on my Mac.

There must be a way to play music bought on the itunes store without having every single file downloaded on my mac.

It can't be that if I have 20Gb in music in my Library that I need to download 20Gb of music to my Mac.

The library file should be enough but this isn't working.

Would I be better off moving the whole library file to trash and start all over?

I have indeed activated iTunes match on the Macbook.

I indeed deleted that file on the mac and not via iTunes as I noticed that if I delete it via iTunes it takes up way more disk space.

The iPod classic can hold 64Gb but it is kind of pointless if I can only sync the iPod with if I download 64Gb of music onto my Mac.

There are plenty of other music players and other mp3 players that can organise my music better and play it better.

I stuck with the iPod and Macbook andiTunes as it is supposed to all work together, but apparently it doesn't.

Even though I have music in the cloud turned on it still doesn't seem to be able to sync with music in the cloud unless I have it downloaded onto my Mac.

I indeed want to download or sync music to my iPod from iCloud. If it can't do this and I have to have every single file I want to sync with my iPod on my Mac then it is no use to me at all.

There are other music players that can do this for me so I would be forced to look for those now.

As for the iPod. I think I resolved it for now by deleting all music in my library and now redownloading it to my harddrive.

Very disappointed in that though.

flemishgael wrote:

I indeed want to download or sync music to my iPod from iCloud. If it can't do this and I have to have every single file I want to sync with my iPod on my Mac then it is no use to me at all.

There are other music players that can do this for me so I would be forced to look for those now.

Which devices do you think you can you sync music to by connecting to your computer if you do not have that music on your compuer?

Had the same problem and figured it out after a while. Go to the iTunes store, click purchased, and (if it's not already selected) click on "not in my library." The little cloud with the arrow to download was there for me and the songs re-downloaded quickly and properly.

JCard90 wrote:

It is all "hidden." You have set it as Hide.Go to Itunes Store > view account > hidden purchases. > Unhide

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What i did is that i signed out of iTunes and while im signed out i went to the album or song and clicked buy then u sign into your apple id that u purchased it and it should download that song without repurchasing.