Friday, August 22, 2014

How to Authorize a computer to play iTunes Store purchases


iTunes 10 for Mac: Authorize a computer to play iTunes Store purchases

This article has been archived and is no longer updated by Apple.
To play many purchases from the iTunes Store, you must authorize your computer using your Apple ID and password. (Authorization helps protect the copyrights of the purchased items.)
You can have up to five authorized computers (Macintosh, Windows, or both) at a time. To play a purchased item on a sixth computer, you need to deauthorize another one. An iPod, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV doesn’t count as a computer.
You can authorize or deauthorize a computer at any time. Be sure to deauthorize a computer before you sell it or give it away.

Here are ways to authorize or deauthorize a computer:

  • To authorize a computer to play iTunes Store purchases, choose Store > Authorize Computer.
  • To deauthorize a computer, choose Store > Deauthorize Computer.
  • To deauthorize a computer to play spoken programs purchased from the Audible website, choose Advanced > Deauthorize Audible Account.
  • If you forgot to deauthorize a computer you no longer own, and you have five authorized computers, you can deauthorize all your authorized computers at once. You can use this method once a year.
    Choose Store > View My Account, and click Deauthorize All. If you don’t see this option, it’s because you don’t have five authorized computers.
If you have trouble deauthorizing a computer, visit the iTunes Store Authorization FAQ website.

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