That will move the song back into your Purchased area. On the Account page, find the Hidden Purchases section, and click on ‘Manage’:
Try to purchase it, and you will get this message:Ĭlick ‘Download’, and you should end up with a brand new, working music file for the song.Īnother way to get to the deleted song is by going back to the Account menu in iTunes, and clicking on ‘View My Account’: Go to the store, and search for the song, as if you were going to buy it. Now, the song will not be in the ‘Not in Your Library’ section or in the ‘All’ section. Then go back to the ‘Purchased’ area of your account. This will put up a scary warning that says something to the effect of are you sure that you want to hide (delete) the song, and that it will be hidden from your iTunes purchases. If after you have redownloaded it, the song still has the defect (this has happened to us), you can instead delete the song (rather than removing the download). Now go repeat the steps to get to your ‘Purchased’ area in your iTunes store account, search for the song, and it should have the download symbol on it. hold down the ‘control’ key and click on the song), and click on ‘Remove download’: You need to remove that song from your local library.įind the song in your iTunes library, and highlight it and press control-click (i.e.
So, how to convince iTunes to let you redownload the broken song? You will not be offered that option if iTunes detects the song in your local library: Note that if iTunes ‘knows’ that you don’t have a song or album that you have purchased in your library, it will proactively offer for you to download it: Search for the song that you are having problems with, to confirm to yourself that iTunes knows that you purchased it (especially if it’s possible that you actually ripped it from a CD (remember those?) and you only thought you’d purchased it through iTunes): If you have any music that you have purchased through iTunes that is not already on any of your devices, it will take you to the ‘Not in My Library’ list if it does this, click on ‘All’ next to ‘Not in My Library’, because the music you are concerned with is in your local library, it’s just that it’s messed up: This will take you to the iTunes store section, and directly to your purchased music area.
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