any techies in here

[Corabar Entertainment]

Friend of mine had a crash and couldn't recover from his time machine. Apparently he contacted Apple and they re-enabled all of the previously downloaded content on his iTunes account and the next time he went in, several hundred songs started downloading again. Start here http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

Presumably other download services offer a similar mechanism, but I wouldn't know about that. Try contacting them.

Alternatively, if you're working with CD rips, you better get busy

Which is why I asked where the music originally came from (but the question was obviously missed)

[Excalibur]

Friend of mine had a crash and couldn't recover from his time machine. Apparently he contacted Apple and they re-enabled all of the previously downloaded content on his iTunes account and the next time he went in, several hundred songs started downloading again. Start here http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

Presumably other download services offer a similar mechanism, but I wouldn't know about that. Try contacting them.

Alternatively, if you're working with CD rips, you better get busy

7Digital hold them on file, and you can download them more than once. Amazon, I'm not so sure.

Which is why I asked where the music originally came from (but the question was obviously missed)

Ah. You're too good for this place.