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I have a new MacBook. My iTunes does not have the music from my old MacBook. iTunes does not have any links to the Cloud. How can I retrieve my music?

I have a new MacBook. My iTunes does not have the music from my old MacBook. iTunes does not have any links to the Cloud. How can I retrieve my music?

Posted on Oct 14, 2016 6:19 PM

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Posted on Oct 14, 2016 8:13 PM

Go to the store tab in iTunes and connect to your Apple account. Then click on Purchased. You will get a list of all the songs you purchased in the store. You will get the list of songs purchased on your previous MacBook. Just download them.

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Oct 14, 2016 7:33 PM in response to mbandjjj

Download your past purchases - https://support.apple.com/HT201272 - "Find your past purchases in the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV" "With iTunes in the Cloud, you can access your past purchases from the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store." - enabled with iTunes 10.3 and newer; not all media formats are available in all countries (see: iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, and iTunes Radio availability by country - https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204632); apps, books (not audiobooks), music, t.v. shows, and movies (some - not all studios have permitted this). Downloading previously purchased movies and TV shows requires iTunes 10.6 or later. Discontinued items not available. For items not included in the iCloud list (e.g., ringtones, audiobooks, alert tones, rental movies), or locations or computer systems where iCloud is not (yet?) available, you only get one download per fee paid. Apple recommends, "... back up your iTunes library. " (https://support.apple.com/HT201272). http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html - "Some iTunes Eligible Content that you previously acquired may not be available for subsequent download at any given time, and Apple shall have no liability to you in such event. As you may not be able to subsequently download certain previously-acquired iTunes Eligible Content, once you download an item of iTunes Eligible Content, it is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage it, and you may want to back it up."


Of course this assumes all your music was purchased from Apple. If it wasn't then you need to transfer the music from your old computer the way you have had to do with any files since the day computers were invented.

I have a new MacBook. My iTunes does not have the music from my old MacBook. iTunes does not have any links to the Cloud. How can I retrieve my music?

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