redownloading itunes songs?

[Roger]

Does itunes let you download songs more than once, or do you get just one freebie download of past purchases if your HD crashes and your itunes backup is corrupt?

I remember it being they would let you download everything once but after that you're screwed. Trying to decide if it is worth it.

[largento]

Go to the iTunes store and look for "Purchased" on the menu on the right.

 

You'll be taken to a page that lets you see all of your purchases and you can re-download them from there. Even more cool, you can select "Not in my library" and it will tell you which songs are missing.

 

I suspect the limitations of this might be songs that you purchased that are no longer available on iTunes. I still have some old songs that have DRM because they were never available on the iTunes Store after DRM went away.

 

This way it's easy to get your music onto your various computers.

[Roger]

Ah, but I thought it was like a one-time only "oops my computer blew up and I had no backups" kind of deal. I don't want to waste my one-and-only redownload privileges if that is the case.