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I'm using iTunes version 12.1.1.4 on Windows 8.1. After hours of trying to figure this out, there is seemingly no simple or convenient way to download all my purchased music with a single click. The "Download All" button in the bottom right of my purchases window will only download what is selected in the left pane, and I cannot find a way to select everything at once.
iPod nano, Windows 8
OK, another option you can try is to select "Store" from the top menu and then click on Check for Available Downloads in the dropdown. This should cause all of your purchases that are not currently downloaded to download to your computer.
Here is the Apple Support article for downloading past purchases in iTunes 12 for Windows. In the first set of instructions, it indicates that you should have the ability to select both the "Not in My Library" option as well as the Songs or Albums option:
iTunes 12 for Windows: Download previous purchases from the iTunes Store
Cheers,
GB
You do not have to select anything.
Go to Purchased under the Quick Links section in the iTunes Store/Music, click on Not in My Library, and then select Songs or Albums, then click on Download All. Do not "select" anything, just download.
Cheers,
GB
This does not work. When I open the Purchases window, all the artists of songs/albums that I own are in a list on the left of the screen. The first artist in the list alphabetically is selected when I first open Purchases, and I cannot deselect them or select all. If I click "Download All," it will only download the songs for that artist.
What version of iTunes are you running? When you select Purchased under Quick Links, then select Not in My Library, then if you select Albums, it should have an option to select "All Albums" at the top of the list, or if you select Songs then "All Songs":
GB
As I said, I am using version 12.1.1.4. I see no option for selecting "all songs" or "all albums," as you can see in the below image.
The list of artists is in the "J's" because I've been steadily doing this manually artist by artist when I have the time. I am not scrolled halfway down the list or anything like that. That is the top of the list as it appears when I open Purchased.
For what it's worth, when I first tried to download my library to this computer, there was an option to select "All Songs/Albums." That option DID NOT download all my songs/albums, only about a third of them. The other two thirds of my songs are still in the cloud, and I've had no way to download them all at once, per my original question.
When I clicked to Check for Available Downloads, it told me that all my purchases were downloaded...which is entirely false.
It seems that I'm the victim of a pretty irritating bug. I guess I have to find an hour or so to devote to clicking through my songs one by one. One of the few pleasures in life.
Oh, and by the way, I have just had this same problem on a new computer with a different iPod. So it would seem this is, in fact, a sweeping problem that no one has bothered to address.
I can barely contain my glee.
OK, now I'm confused about what it is you are wanting to do. Not sure what your iPod has to do with downloading all purchases to your Windows iTunes Library?
Can you please clarify?
Cheers,
GB
How do I download all purchased music at once?
