Purchased music and reinstalling iTunes

audiobliss
audiobliss Posts: 12,518
edited December 2008 in The Clubhouse
I want to reformat my desktop, but I've recently bought about 30 or so songs from iTunes. What happens to that music? If I deauthorize my account on my desktop (don't I have to do that to reformat and reinstall iTunes?) and then reinstall iTunes, will I be able to redownload my purchased music? Or do I have to back it up somehow before reformatting?

Thanks!
George Grand wrote: »
Jstas wrote: »
Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,482
    edited December 2008
    I just set a new PC for the wife and followed the instructions here.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1329?viewlocale=en_US
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  • BigMac
    BigMac Posts: 849
    edited December 2008
    Hi. I have been looking for an answer and I found one right from Apple. Here is a link for you. I know your computer did not crash but the end result will be the same. Hope this helps. Good luck.

    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1835169&tstart=0

    *someone beat me to it and their link is WAYYYYY better than mine. At least you will know everything by the time you finish with the 2 links,lol.**
    DON'T CLICK THIS!!
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited December 2008
    Hahaha, thanks for both the links! I think since I haven't actually lost any music due to a crash, the simplest thing for me to do will be to burn my ~30 purchased songs to a CD and then just reformat. I was planning on reripping all my CD's anyways.

    Thanks!
    George Grand wrote: »
    Jstas wrote: »
    Simple question. If you had a cool million bucks, what would you do with it?
    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
    In Use
    PS3, Yamaha CDR-HD1300, Plex, Amazon Fire TV Gen 2
    Pioneer Elite VSX-52, Parasound HCA-1000A
    Klipsch RF-82ii, RC-62ii, RS-42ii, RW-10d
    Epson 8700UB
    In Storage
    [Home Audio]
    Rotel RCD-02, Yamaha KX-W900U, Sony ST-S500ES, Denon DP-7F
    Pro-Ject Phono Box MKII, Parasound P/HP-850, ASL Wave 20 monoblocks
    Klipsch RF-35, RB-51ii
    [Car Audio]
    Pioneer Premier DEH-P860MP, Memphis 16-MCA3004, Boston Acoustic RC520
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