How do I fix my iTunes which keeps having an unknown error when I try to download a song?

My iTunes is not allowing me to download music, I enter my password which is correct and it says 'unknown error' and just gives me the option to retry or cancel and then still doesn't work.
Help would be great thank you.

Perhaps these two threads will help:
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It sounds like you are being prompted to authorize your computer in order to download your iTunes purchases. This article will help you do that:
iTunes Store: Authorize or deauthorize your Mac or PC
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1420
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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The cheaper routers, Linksys, D-Link, Seimens home units, and many other no name devices have caused issues of various kinds, and even connectivity.
I have no idea what Starbucks uses, but I always have a good connection, and I go there nearly every morning and get some work done, as well as play.
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How do I fix my iTunes which keeps having an unknown error when I try to download a song?

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