How to Download Previously Downloaded Music from iTunes

Mango accidentally deleted some music he'd downloaded from iTunes. Fortunately, iTunes will allow you to download previously downloaded music, though it required some hoop jumping. 1) From the Store menu in iTunes, be sure your computer is authorized. 2) Navigate to the iTunes store and click the link for Purchased. You may be able to download the files by clicking the Cloud icon. If not, 3) Shut down iTunes, rename your iTunes Library folder, and restart iTunes. Only after doing this, we were permitted to download the files. 4) If you had to follow Step 3, shut down iTunes again, restore the original iTunes Library folder, restart iTunes, locate the songs you just downloaded, and add them to your library. On a slightly related note, in doing this we discovered that iTunes now sells DRM-free music in *.m4a format, not *.m4p. Though this is old news, we were glad to read it.