Anything you've purchased from Apple, you can re-download. Further, any content you've synced to Apple with their iTunes Match service ($25/year, IIRC) can be re-downloaded. You have to contend with Apple's device limits, but they're not a problem for most users (five PCs max on a given Apple ID, I don't think there's a limit on other devices like iPods and iPhones).
The five PCs per account limit can be annoying, especially in the event of a hard drive failure, since you can't de-authorize the PC in advance. Fortunately, once per year Apple will let you do a bulk disconnect (disconnect all devices, then you can manually reconnect the ones that you still own and that still work), so you don't have dead phantom PCs tying up your authorizations indefinitely. Ultimately, of course, your iTunes library should be treated like any other personal digital data that you value (backed up regularly, maybe store a copy offsite, and so on). David Smith -----Original Message----- From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Šarunas Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 11:12 AM To: Brandon Allbery Cc: tech Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Migrating WinXP to a larger drive On 08/05/2013 11:16 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Šarūnas <saru...@mail.saabnet.com > <mailto:saru...@mail.saabnet.com>> wrote: > > Not much experience with iTunes, but the "correct" way around this might > be to back-up/duplicate/export your iTunes stuff, install Windows on a > new disk, restore/import iTunes data. ITunes does have some kind of > backup option, no? > > Backup yes, sensible restore not so much. (It's more or less initial > import, i.e. the fact that you have the actual library database dumped > is irrelevant). Admitedly, this probably is going off-topic, but what iTunes' user is supposed to do or to have in order to recover from a hard drive failure?.. -- Šarūnas Burdulis http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
