Slow music store

does anybody know how to quicken up my itunes store. everytime i go on it it takes forever to load up!!

I'm not so sure that it is a specific pc. I am running plenty of power and it takes about 12 minutes from the time i click on the itunes icon to the time i can actually see the homepage. The kicker is that once i get in i try to burn a song that i want and it freezes up and at least once it crashed my computer...I think it is official, Apple ***! Thats the problem and the solution = getting music from elsewhere.....

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For the past few weeks (unsure if directly tied to a security or version upgrade), the ITunes music store has become painfully slow to load. The load bar starts, gets about 90% there quickly, then appears to 'hang', like it is having trouble loading the last couple images. All store pages have the same problem, including searches. Similar thing happening in Safari, though is more manageable since, unlike ITunes music store, the screen appears before it is fully loaded.
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Have tried resetting Safari, playing with the buffer setting on ITunes, no luck.
Thoughts? Thank you

Hi Jim,
The 'refresh to force the page to load' symptom is usually a sign that you either have the wrong DNS addresses specified in your Network preferences or your ISPs DNS server are very slow.
Have a search for DNS on the Safari forum - there's quite a few posts and sample addresses for you to try out.
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I don't know what to do with your problem but is this someone that is in the Krymson Band???

As of today, neither sample songs on the music store nor songs already downloaded will play correctly. They are stuttery and slow. I have iTunes 10.5 and have not downloaded any upgrades for anything recently. They were working last night. Thoughts?

As of today, neither sample songs on the music store nor songs already downloaded will play correctly. They are stuttery and slow. I have iTunes 10.5 and have not downloaded any upgrades for anything recently. They were working last night. Thoughts or advice?

I found a solution that worked for me. Here is what I did and where I found it.
"Looks like I tracked down the problem, it worked for me so I hope this works for everyone else experiencing problems. Go to your Task Manager and locate the program APSDaemon.exe (Apple Push)..... if you see this executing terminate the program and then startup iTunes and it should come up fine. You will see afterwards that APSDaemon.exe (Apple Push) starts back up but this is fine as long as iTunes has already started.
I tried playing both music and syncing up my iPhone with no problems. Note if you shutdown iTunes again you will have to terminate the process APSDaemon.exe (Apple Push) again. Haven't had time to see what in the world Apple Push is but this appears to have corrected the problem so that you can at least use iTunes and sync any device that needs to be synced.
Hope that helps everyone!"
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16998456#16998456

ITunes music store veryyyyy slow

I can get onto Mozilla and Internet Explorer with great connection speeds, however itunes is the problem. I am downloading an episode of The Office, which normally took a little less than 5 minutes, but it is taking up to 80 hours to download. I live in a college dorm, and the same problem is also happening to my roomate, and another person across the hall, but I haven't asked anyone else yet though. I upgraded to itunes 7 before this problem happened, and my roomate was still on itunes 6 when his music store started going slow. I tried flushing out my DNS like a help topic told me to, but that didn't help, and i don't think i have any pop up software to delete, can anyone help me?

I am haveing the same issue when first opening the music store. I never had a problem before when using iTunes version 6 but since I upgraded to 7 I can not open the store or my shopping cart. I tried clearing the dns and that did not work either.

ITunes Music Store Slow Down

Since upgrading to the latest version of iTunes and Tiger 10.4.7, whenever I try to access the Music Store I see the progress bar with the "accessing music store" message for several minutes. It does eventually load, but everthing in the store is slow. Podcasts also download painfully slow. And it's not a bandwidth thing, I am on a cable modem and the windows box next to me accesses iTunes just fine. Safari, web downloads, and evrything else on the web still accesses as fast as it used to. Can anyone help? Apple?

I've also found all aspects of the Store extremely sluggish since upgrading to 6. Previews and radio streams constantly getting rebuffered (even with the cache set to "Large"), single track downloads taking 5 minutes or more, and searches taking 30 seconds or longer. It makes browsing & purchasing music on iTunes completely impractical and I've since given up my one track a day purchasing habit, probably for the better.
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There have been multiple threads detailing troubles people have been having both with the iTunes Music Store and streaming music via iTunes. Extremely sluggish performance has been reported for weeks now.
Over the past 3 weeks I've found that a search on the Music Store can take 30 seconds or more. Downloading a song can take minutes. Browsing is extremely sluggish. Sampling songs results in repeated rebuffering ("Network Stalled/Rebuffering Stream" messages), even if one sets the Streaming Buffer Size to "Large". I've tried reverting to 6.0.4 and shutting off the Firewall and Personal File Sharing, none of which had any effect.
I experience the same sluggishness both at work, via a high speed office LAN/T3 connection, and at home, via a basic DSL setup. The friends and associates I've surveyed are experiencing the same sluggishness. No proxy servers are used at either location.
I don't know about others, but I've found this sluggishness makes the iTunes Music Store completely unusable. It would be helpful if Apple were to give us some kind of indication as to what's going on if it wishes to retain it's dedicated customer base. If it persists, there are alternatives. (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onlinemusic_store#Online_Music_Store_Comparisontable)
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Yes it is sluggish at times but far from unusable. Why not select the "Loads ....before playing" option in iTunes prefs>Store to get over the rebuffering problem. I think it is slow due to the popularity and high volumn use that the iTMS gets. Try a different time of day. I use it late at night (USA time) and don't have all the problems that you are experiencing.
Why not contact iTMS customer service directly as Apple does not currently pay much attention to the forums. The reponses here are from fellow forum users and not from Apple employees.
By all means if you are dissatisfied with the iTMS then vote with your pocket book and go else where. Last time I checked it was still a free market place.
MJ

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This is a problem for a lot of iTunes Music Store customers. Many people have complained that they get "cannot connect to the Music Store" error messages. Apple replies that repairing the Keychain can fix the problem, but I and several others in various discussion forums find that doesn't help.
After upgrading to iTunes 6 and repairing my keychain, then restarting, I find that I can connect to the Music Store only after repeated attempts. I get the error message repeatedly, but if I keep trying enough times, I finally get through.
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Apple, what's the solution?

You're not alone. Since Saturday I seem to be experiencing two problems;
1: The previews of tracks don't work properly - that is to say, they don't download correctly - I'm on 2Mb broadband and I've had to switch it into download the whole preview before playing due to it only playing 12 seconds of the 30 seconds if I leave it 'on the fly'
2: I have repeated problems downloading tracks from the ITMS. THey get 50% of the way through then I get ;
"There was an error downloading your purchased music. The network connection was reset. Make sure your network connection is active and try again."
After repeated retries I eventually get the track downloaded but it's painful.
Again - this has only started happening since Saturday (I've been using ITMS on my mac since it opened in the UK), and like I said I'm on 2Mbits/s broadband with no other issues.

ITunes Music Store VERY slow

With the rest of my internet connections working at full speed, I find that the iTunes Music Store has virtually become unresponsive. Minutes go buy waiting for every last click to finish. How can I improve this? It takes 3-4 minutes at least to go from one item to the next in the iTunes Music Store. Browsing is impossible at such speed. Everything else on my Mac is just fine. Using 9.1.
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I think mine is my Internet provider - Optimum Online.
Did a speed check last night and was getting 2Mb/sec.
This morning I'm at 13.
I guess Friday night at 10:00 is Optimum throttle down time.
Just coincidence that I noticed this issue when I moved to an external HD... but I did see an answer somewhere saying that could be a problem. shrug

Previewing songs in the music store using dial-up connection.

I know, its lame but I live in a very rural area and cannot get high speed out here.
Using dial-up, how do I preview a song before I decide to buy it? I double-click like you're supposed to, but nothing happens.
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this document might be helpful with that:
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I just bought an album from the iTunes Music Store and tried to burn it to a CD-R but it came up with an error reading "The attempt to burn a disc failed. The device failed to calibrate the laser power level for this media." I don't know what else to do. I have done all the steps for burning correctly but it still doesn't work and I have tried it with more than one disc.

I finally found the workaround.( I received the same error message.)
Set the Preferred Burn speed to 2X
Quit all your other Applications before you start your burn.
It's slow but it does work on my G4/450 Cube.
Hope this helps.

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Hi, I've been trying all day, my message is "itunes could not connect to the music store. An unknown error occured (502). Make sure your network connection is active and try again"
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Kind regards

I too have been having trouble with the iTunes store. It's incredibly slow, and when it does appear, there are a lot of "broken link" icons instead of the normal album covers, etc. The Apple servers must be borked, at least for now. I'm in Ohio, USA. Using iTunes 7.01
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Help, all the album artwork in the music store has been replaced by a broken chain graphic - what's going on???

The symbol means that the music store is unable to get the file. Is your internet connection slow? Is there a firewall preventing access to the store? If you are using Windows XP (SP2), do you have it set up so that iTunes is allowed to use the internet connection?

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