iCloud purchases not viewable in iTunes 12

I do not have the option in iTunes preferences to show only the items on my computer and so I have nearly two of everything showing in my library. Even after unauthorizing my Mac and re-authorizing I still do not have the option to hide my iCloud stored purchases.

Sign out of the iTunes Store. Then sign in again. This should resolve the issue of cloud purchases showing when they are already in the library. Alternatively select Songs and then View > Only Downloaded Music. As a last restore you can hide purchases so they don't show twice. See Hide and unhide iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store purchases - Apple Support.

tt2

Hello there, dbaerg.

The following link to the online iTunes User Guide seems to provide an answer for how to show your iCloud purchases in the latest version of iTunes:

iTunes Store preferences - iTunes Help

Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases

Display items purchased from the iTunes Store that haven’t been downloaded to your computer. These items have a Download button next to them.

Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.

Cheers,

Pedro.

Pedro, he's not asking how to see these songs in the iTunes Store. He's asking how to see them in his iTunes music library, without first downloading them. This used to be an option in the previous version of iTunes, but like dbaerg, I can't see it anywhere.

Hi deBaerg,

after opening iTunes try to log out and in again. I have the same problem. The checkbox in the preferences and the menu bar is not showing after starting iTunes. As soon as I log in by e.g. trying to access my wish list it appears after a few seconds. I have this since iTunes 11. Nobody could solve this problem. But I am still hoping that someone comes up with a good idea...

Regards,

Sebastian.

Go to iTunes Prefs- Store - tick the box 'Show...'

MJ

Thanks Mike, that's it. But I'm almost 100% certain that wasn't there before. This may be a bug that was fixed with the 12.0.1 update. I've also done a clean install of Yosemite since I last commented here (was having other problems), so maybe that fixed it for me. In any case, it's now working.

For clarity, iTunes has two options that would appear to do the same thing:

1. Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases
2. View > Show Music in the Cloud

But they're not quite the same. If you have it unchecked in preferences, the option won't show in the view menu. So for it to work, you need it set to show in both places.

I too had to log out, and back into iTunes to get the option to show. Odd since i just picked up two new Macs and only had this on one of them 😕

1. Store -> Sign Out

2. Store -> Sign In

3. iTunes -> Preferences -> Store (top) -> Show iTunes in the Cloud purchases

Did you ever sort this out? If not I found re-authorising my computer fixed this issue.

Adam

The guy on this YouTube video helped me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4HAfCY1ex4

iTunes >Preferences > Store > Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases