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iTMS full-album purchasing issues
updated 06:40 pm EST, Tue November 22, 2005
iTMS purchasing issues
Angry iTunes Music Store customers are posting in Apple's forums, wondering why they ". One individual suggests that the company has implemented special software that is causing the difficulties with the iTunes Music Store, hampering downloads and preventing the retrieval of podcasts.
Just Chill
11/22, 06:58pm reply
Everyone should just chill out. Apple might just be having network glitches.
Once they sort it out, everything will return to normal.
iFrankie
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jul 2002
i doubt it's on purpose
11/22, 07:12pm reply
i'm guessing it's just a connectivity thing, i have a high bandwidth account from another provider and occasionally i've had these errors show up or simply have "not available". no biggie, it works 99.98 percent of the time
superfunkomatic
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: May 2005
It's real...
11/22, 07:25pm reply
I'm with Rogers. A week ago in my area, podcast downloads worked swimmingly. Early last week, they just stopped. Unless the podcast is less than a megabyte in size, odds are it will stall halfway through. It's bad enough that I'd say 95% of all my 20 subscribed podcasts will not get updated if I click the update button. They will completely stall out.
Zang
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jan 2004
NOT APPLE's FAULT
11/22, 07:27pm reply
This is a well documented and discussed "feature" of the Rogers Communication service.
This ISP will only allow a limited amount of traffic in the hope of limiting P2P networks. It is known to cause problems with UseNet, VPN, and services such as Apple iTunes Store.
Once again, the media companies are using their influence to hurt consumers.
Editors at iPodNN: Please change or remove this story as it is only a matter of time before the major media picks up this false and erroneous story.
BWhaler
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Apr 2003
Single songs, too
11/22, 07:29pm reply
I've gotten intermittent errors like that even just downloading the free song of the week. I think they are bumping up against some thorughput limitations, or perhaps some glitches with their content providers (used to be Akami).
throatmonster
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Aug 2001
VidPodCast Error
11/22, 08:55pm reply
I have problems after downloading or double clicking on video podcast files - basically it always crashes iTunes. And yes, I have the latest versions of software installed.
umijin
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2004
No album probs here
11/23, 03:58am reply
Just grabbed an album last night - no issues on this end. Must suck to be on Rogers' network...
natural1
Junior Member
Joined: Jan 2005
reason: video?
11/23, 06:25am reply
Never had a prob until I started d/l-ing iTMS videos, esp. TV shows. Apple may be in the process of sorting out their own bandwidth issues now that their hefting vids to people. iTunes > Edit > Check for Purchases has solved everything so far.
brainiac_7
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Joined: Jun 2005
Feeding c|net?
11/23, 08:17am reply
I agree with bwhaler that it's bad enough for M$ lickspittle news-sites to publish F.U.D. about Apple, but it is becoming increasingly common for MacNN to feature un-stories like this one that only lend weight to the stories when they are picked up by agenda driven sites. I'm not suggesting that MacNN only publish good news but at least they should verify their stories and weigh their relevance or significance. "Boy in Denver scratches iPod Nano" stories are not news!!!!
Feathers
Forum Regular
Joined: Oct 1999
Except for one thing...
11/23, 10:30am reply
I'm not with Rogers and for the past two days I've been unable to purchase an album I wanted because "it was being modified", which seemed somewhat unlikely.
No, there's a real problem with ITMS recently when trying to purchase albums.
eggman
Mac Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2002