Since my G4 died, can I deauthorize its iTunes account from my wife's Mini, or will I have to contact iTunes support?

You'll need to contact support if you can't revive it: it's not the account that gets authorized/deauthorized, but the specific hardware.

(You have 5 authorizations to use at once, so it's not critical to lose one--but I'd want all my five just in case!)

Thanks! That's what I thought. The G4 is not revivable nor would it be cost effective.

You can use the other computer to deauthorize everything, and then reauthorize what you want. I had to do that when my G4 tower was stolen.

Don't ask!

Thanks! I might do that if and when I get another computer.

(I really want to ask)

ok, sorry to do this, but this belongs in the iTunes section. I'll leave a marker, I promise!

Interesting, I was going to ask a similar question. When I authorized my new notebook for ITunes, it was the 5th and final one. At least one of the computers that had been authorized for my iTunes account is dead as well.

So if I contact Support, I wonder if that counts as my one and only free call for the new computer. If so, I'll nose around to find the place to deauthorize everything, and then, as yoyo suggested, reauthorize them, one by one.

This brings up another question. I tried to load an album that I'd downloaded from iTunes to the new comptuer. I have gotten the firewire or ethernet cords yet to do a transfer, so I just used the disk I made of the downloaded album. I got a message that I didn't have the authorization to listen to the album on this computer. What gives?

Thanks once more,

Ellen

What kind of disc? Regular audio CD? If so, that's odd. If it's a data disc of the files, then you'll need to authorize the machine to play them.

(I wouldn't recommend using audio CD to transfer songs: they'll end up being re-compressed.)

Regular audio disc!

The songs transferred into my iTunes library but when I click one to play, I get a message saying I need it authorize the machine. It's already been authorized but I play the game and authorize again. Then I get a message that the machine has already been authorized? Oh, really?

Ellen

Call them, they will de-authorize all machines, and you can then authorize the one(s) you want again. Don't tell them about the new machine, just tell them you were trying to authorize a Mac but found you had reached your limit, and don't have the machines anymore to de-authorize them manually.

They'll wipe the slate.