Authorize Your Computer or Portable Player

Authorization (enabling Rhapsody's digital rights management, or DRM

) takes place automatically when you download Rhapsody onto your computer. Authorization is necessary to play secure music (music you have purchased and/or downloaded from Rhapsody). The authorization is retained on your computer, and with your account information at Rhapsody. You can have up to three (3) authorized computers at any one time.

Although authorization is automatic, there may be times when you will need to authorize or deauthorize a computer by hand. You can do this from the Rhapsody Tools menu.

Authorize Your Portable Device

Authorizing your portable player or device allows it to communicate with Rhapsody, and to accept Rhapsody content. If you have a Rhapsody To Go membership and a compatible portable device, your device will be registered during setup. You can also register a portable device at any time from the portable device name in the Sources area, using the right-click menu

. You can have up to three (3) registered devices at any one time.

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How do I authorize or deauthorize a computer?

How do I authorize or deauthorize a portable device?

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When do I need to deauthorize a computer?

You can authorize up to three computers at any one time. If you already have three computers authorized, you must deauthorize one of them before you can authorize a new computer.
If you are planning to stop using an authorized computer, such as an old laptop, you will need to deauthorize that computer to make room for another.
If you log in to a computer temporarily, when on the road or at a friend's house, you will need to deauthorize that computer when you have finished with it. You must be signed in to your Rhapsody account from that computer to deauthorize it.

When do I need to authorize a computer?

If you have previously deauthorized a computer, and now you wish to use it to play secure Rhapsody content again, you need to reauthorize it.
If someone else has logged onto your computer and signed in to his or her Rhapsody account, the computer will be authorized under his account, and you may need to reauthorize.

When do I need to deauthorize a portable device?

You can authorize up to three portable devices at any one time. If you already have three portable devices authorized, you must deauthorize one of them before you can authorize a new device.
If you are planning to stop using an authorized device (because you have a new device, or you are giving the old device to a friend, for example) you will need to deauthorize that device to make room for another.

When do I need to authorize a portable device?

If you have a new portable device that you have never used with Rhapsody, you may need to authorize it after connection.
If you have previously deauthorized a device, and now you wish to use it to play secure Rhapsody content again, you need to reauthorize it.

How do I know how many computers or portable devices I have authorized?

To check on your authorizations:

Select Manage My Account from the Rhapsody "My Account" menu.
Enter your Rhapsody password when you are prompted to do so.
Click Authorizations on the left side of the "Account Summary" dialog. The Authorizations dialog will open. From here, you can see how many computers and portable devices you have authorized, and you can choose to rename or deauthorize computers and devices.

Note: You can always reauthorize a computer after you have deauthorized it, provided you have not reached your limit of three (3) authorized computers.

Likewise, you can reauthorize a portable device after you have deauthorized it, provided you have not reached your limit of three (3) authorized devices.

Important: Before uninstalling Rhapsody from any of your computers, you must deauthorize that computer.

Authorize and Deauthorize a Computer or Portable Device