Section 22. Check for Purchased Music or Videos

22. Check for Purchased Music or Videos

Before You Begin	See Also
Sign Up for the iTunes Music Store	Back Up Your Music to CD or DVD
Purchase a Song, Album, Video, or Audiobook from the iTunes Music Store

The iTunes Music Store keeps track of the status of your downloads and makes sure that you get every byte of each song and video you purchase. If a download is interrupted, the store keeps a note of that fact and makes sure that you have the opportunity to download all the tracks to which you're entitled.

Check for Purchased Music or Videos

Sign In to the iTunes Music Store

Choose Music Store from the Source pane in the iTunes window and connect to the store. If you are not already signed in, click the Sign In button in the upper-right corner and provide your Apple ID (or AOL screen name) and password to sign yourself in.

Check for Purchased Items

Choose Advanced, Check for Purchases. iTunes connects to the Music Store and checks the download queue for your account for any incompletely transferred items.

Note

About once per week, iTunes checks for purchased items automatically when you launch it.

Download Interrupted Tracks

If iTunes finds any tracks in the download queue that are still waiting to be retrieved, it begins to download them again automatically. Use the Purchased playlist in the Source pane to see which tracks are in the queue and are now being downloaded. (They're the ones shown in gray type.)