Itunes - How to use a credit card with a remaining gift card balance

In iTunes, I'm running into an issue where I have a gift card that is tied to my account and i have 4$ left on the card. I want to buy a song using my credit card, and I have successfully entered my credit card information into my account, but I don't know of a way to explicitly buy a iTunes song and charge my credit card rather than having it pull from my gift card's remaining balance.
Please let me know if there is explicitly charge your credit card even with a remaining gift card balance. In recent songs that I've bought, iTunes has been automatically defaulting to use my registered gift card rather than the credit card I have on file.

I'm having a similar issue: just redeemed a gift card for $25. I can see it in the upper right corner. Yet when I select a song to download, I am (again) asked to sign in and select a credit card to use. I don't want to use a credit card, I want to use the $25 card. This hasn't happened to me before now. If I click the 'redeem gift card' option in the credit card screen, it correctly says that that card has already been redeemed.

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301961
also,
http://tinyurl.com/29bjce
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Message was edited by: dddeeefff

I have an itunes gift card balance on my account however I want to use my credit card to pay for songs. It automatically uses my balance and doensn't give me the option of using my credit card. In detail how do I change it or must I use my balance first?

I have an itunes gift card balance on my account however I would rather use my credit card to pay for my music downloads. I cannot find an option to choose credit card over my balance, it just automatically uses my gift card balance instead. Is there a way to change this? I have gone to account settings but cannot find a way to do this. Does anyone have any detailed information on how this could be achieved? Is it even possible? Thanks so much in advance!

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