HT204406 itunes match sometimes don't play songs

hi,
i use itunes match with all my music and it works well.
but sometimes when i want to play a song i double-click it and nothing happens: i think itunes loads the muscic (the cloud-icon moves:).
someone can tell me how to solve this problem?
thanks
pierre n.

This forum is for questions from those managing sites on iTunes U, Apple's service for colleges and universities to post educational material in the iTunes Store. You'll be most likely to get help with this issue if you ask in the general iTunes for Windows forums.
Regards.

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