Beatport re-download after a few months!

[Afterhour Ali]

I bought a few track months ago, my HDD now went bye~bye~ so I wanted to re-download them.
The are now listed in the tab "completed downloads", but I can't download them.

Does it mean I have to re-buy them?

[Jester]

Usually they give you two tries with every track. I would check if you have or not, you may be in luck dude

[Afterhour Ali]

Well...that sucks because I can click on the Download buttons for those songs (it's greyed out).

Does anyone have a strategy to secure his bought tracks despite saving them on multiple drives?

[stnz]

did you write a support-ticket?
ive gone through your struggle already two times, and never had a problem restoring the tracks from beatport through the support.

beatport isnt that serious in concerning this problem, other than iT., where you can only restore your tracks once :/

[Jester]

put them on disc also so if the worst happens, you still have the tracks. I back up our stuff on a portable HD and on DVDs

[Jester]

well its not really their problem if your HD shits itself, is it?

[Afterhour Ali]

Yeah but why limit the download-possibility in general?

I would find it more comfortable if a track could be downloaded anytime after buying it.

That's one reason why I use Gmail instead of Outlook.
If I toss my HDD out of the window (or it fall from a height of 15"), np, because everything is online.

[pepehouse]

Ask them to re-download the tracks and they nicely will put it on your basket again, that's what I did and it worked.

[belchman]

Yeh, I've had this problem.. some of the tracks aren't transferable atall.. ie. now i've changed to mac, I had to re-purchase some of my favorites..
Unfortunately, looks like you'll have to rebuy yours completely. luckily for me, there were only one or two which were protected. I don't know how theyr protected either, seems clever to me! can't even burn them to CD

Other than than, beatport is my lifeblood

[belchman]

or follow the pepehouse strategy, I didn't think of tht...