Originally Posted by
djk7
Purchased content is in .m4a format, which AFAIK is not directly playable on non-Apple devices.
m4a is standard aac, which is playable on many non-apple devices.
I don't think Apple provides any way to migrate them to a another format directly, there are probably third party tools to break the digital rights management, and convert them.
there hasn't been drm in several years and itunes will convert to mp3 or aiff.
as has already been posted, the music can be downloaded again (or restore it from a backup, you did make a backup right?). prior to last week you had to explicitly ask to do that, but now it's a couple of clicks in itunes.
Originally Posted by
riteshraja
Only works to redownload music purchased on the same computer. I have a new laptop and all it shows under purchased is music I purchased since I got the new laptop. Using the same itunes account login I always have.
nope, it's whatever was purchased for a given apple id.