Whilst syncing my iPod today I was met with an alert that informed me that it couldn’t sync certain songs because my computer wasn’t authorized to play them. I was at work, so I figured that the reason they weren’t playing was because I hadn’t yet logged my iTunes account from my work machine… Sure enough I logged in and all was right in the world. Or so I thought.After the login process I was informed that I have 4 computers authorized (out of a possible 5). This struck me as odd, since I really only interact with 3 computers. I thought it would be prudent to deauthorize all my machines and reauthorize the ones that I use, since I recently got a new machine at home and at work.
A quick Google search later and I was scanning through this helpful document which walks you through the entire authorization/deauthorization process:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014
From here I learned that I could either deauthorize my current machine– no good to me, since really I just wanted to deauthorize all, but this machine, or I could deauthorize all the machines on my account. This seemed a viable option, I would just re-authorize the machines that I use.
What this article fails to mention is that the “Deauthorize all” option isn’t available unless you’ve reached your 5 machine maximum, or if you’ve “Deauthorized all” in the past 12 months… I guess I could have authorized another machine to allow me to deauthorize all my machines, but I just left it alone… To much hassle.
Just thought those out there with similar problems might like to know.
