I recently figured out how to play music on my desktop PC from the iTunes library on my MacBook. However, the songs I purchased in the iTunse Music Store won't play, because I needed to authorize mt desktop to play them. In trying to do so, I was told that five computers are already authorized. I have no idea which computers they are, as I only use my laptop and desktop. How can I deauthorize the other ones? I don't even know where to begin looking...
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Authorization issue with iTunes
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Once a year you can ask apple to reset all your authorizations.
You can lose them by not de-authorizing prior to a software update (the OS, or itunes, or Quicktime, whatever).
It's good to have a routine for updates where you de-auth prior, re-auth afterwards. then you don't lose an auth on that machine. do it for each machine, you should be fine.
You can lose them by not de-authorizing prior to a software update (the OS, or itunes, or Quicktime, whatever).
It's good to have a routine for updates where you de-auth prior, re-auth afterwards. then you don't lose an auth on that machine. do it for each machine, you should be fine.
I've never had any problems like that. Seems like a hassle to deauthorize just to do an update. I have found though that doing a reinstall doesn't deauthorize a machine, though you can deauthorize after the reinstall. I ran into that when I did a fresh install of my iBook before I sold it.
But yes, like you said, Apple can deauthorize all of the accounts once a year.