Q: Cannot download music I purchased on my Macbook on my Iphone5.
I purchased an album in the iTunes app on my Macbook Air (OSX Mavericks, all latest updates installed). I don't have automatic downloads installed on my Iphone5 (iOS 7.0.4, all latest updates installed), so I followed the instructions on this forum to download the purchased music via the iTunes app. I see all my previous purchases listed, but when I click the iCloud download icon, I get a message: "The item you tried to buy is no longer available". For further information, this is an album that was released last week and that I purchased an hour ago on my Mac.
Moreover, I get the same message when I set the iPhone music app to show all music and then try to download the music stored in the iCloud.
Please advise.
iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.4
Posted on Dec 16, 2013 7:22 AM
UPDATE:
When clicking on the songs and playing them in iPhone5's music app (with "show all content" enabled) they automatically appeared as downloaded content in the music app (with automatic downloads disabled). The minus is that I had to play all the songs individually to have the entire album show up on the devide.
I will do this from now on, but I dare say that it seems rather complicated and unintuitive.
Apple, I'm sure you can design a user experience a bit more streamlined than this, c'mon.
Posted on Dec 16, 2013 7:35 AM