Question: "I got a very nice card from my grandma that included $10 "to buy some music for my new apple phone". It wasn't a gift card, though, so I figured I'd just buy the music directly in the iTunes Store on my iPhone and drop the $10 in the bank. Did it, but now I'm baffled: how do I copy that purchased music onto my laptop? Do I need to download it again from the iTunes Store, or can iTunes just pull it from the phone?"
Answers: In your iPhone, all purchased songs will be shown in the iPod library, click "playlists" in the bottom, "purchased" item will be listed there, open it and check, also the purchased songs can be pitched into the "Albums"folder, view them by clicking "More" option and play on iPhone.
Transfer the purchased songs on iPhone to PC computer, a program iMacsoft iPhone to PC Transfer will be the best, professional, which can list all iPhone media folders on the program, allow you to freely and easily export them onto your pc computer for backup.
Connect iPhone and launch the iMacsoft iPhone to PC Transfer software, all iPhone files are shown up in the interface, such as Audio, Video, Books, Ringtones, playlists, Photo, Voice Memos, Camera, SMS, Contact, Call List, Podcast, Purchases and iTunes U, you can open any item to view the equivalent of files on your iPhone library.
1) Open the "Purchases" library in the iPhone list of left panel, all songs you bought on iPhone will be displayed totally.
2) Check the songs you wanna transfer and press "Export checked files to local" button on the toolbar. Or choose "Export->Export to local" option on the top-menu.
3) A combo box will eject, choose a target folder and save the exported songs on PC local, press "Save" and you will see the copying process of exporting purchased songs on iPhone to computer hard driver. Fast and easy to operate and get the purchased files backups on computer.
Notes:
Maybe you have noticed that other items options in the left panel, check them and freely export off iPhone onto computer, and for iPhone Contact, Call list and SMS backup, you can save them on computer as TXT files, even the .csv contact files onto Windows OutLook or other contact manage apps with the help of iMacsoft iPhone to PC Transfer.
1) Transfer iPhone music/video/podcast/books/photos/voice memos/camera/ringtone/iTunes U, etc. to computer for backup.
2)sync music/books/videos/podcast/TV Show/Audio Books/iTunes U, etc. to iTunes library on computer.
3) Freely manage sorts of iPhone files, delete any unwanted files, create playlist and rename, view photos thumbnail, etc.