Can't download podcasts or purchased music

I am no longer able to download or uopdate my podcasts ( error message: you don’t have enough privileges for this operation) or I get a dotted circle that never moves where the usual circling arrow show download in progress. I tried purchasing and downloading a song from the itunes store. That did not work either. The song shows up at the end of my purchased music list with that same dotted circle. No downloads happening. Could working with itunes match have caused this?

There isn't a limit to how many times an item can be redownloaded, the only limit is how long the item remains in the store (rights-holders occasionally remove their items) - and some items (audiobooks and ringtones) are one-time only downloads. I had a problem downloading updates to some apps earlier today (my computer's iTunes kept getting stuck on 'processing' some of them so I had to close/re-open iTunes a number of time), so it might be a server issue.

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