[X4U] iTunes authorization

[Linda]

On 12/4/06 4:05 AM, Simon Forster wrote:

> Quite quickly I lost the
> tracks (laptop replacement, dying hard drives etc)

The idea, right or wrong, is that they *will* play on your iPod, if you have
one. You do not have to authorize your iPod, it can play any tracks from the
iTMS. Also, the tracks in your computer's backup will also play on your
computer once you've authorized that computer to your account. On paper,
with good backups, nothing is ever "lost". (There are, of course, lots of
places where this theory falls apart, but if you perform good, regular
backups, in theory you should never lose even one byte of data.)

Seriously, though, who among us has backups *that* good?

~Linda (who just, upon reading this thread, realizes that she wiped a hard
disk yesterday to prepare the computer for sale on eBay and didn't
deauthorize it first... crap...)