Trouble Downloading my music
I just bought 8 items from Itunes, 2 of which are songs the rest were videos. 2 of the videos came just fine, but the songs are stuck preparing to download (with the diagonal bars across the status bar). I've left Itunes on for about 4 hours now and it simply won't download that song, and I don't know how to get it to skip to the shows which is what I really want. I would love some help, either advice to get them to download or a way to skip past them to the shows. Thanks!
I have also had trouble downloading. Since a similar question is being asked above, I'll join this thread.
In my case, I purchased six songs about a week ago. The first song downloaded completely and is now on my iPod. The second song began to download, with the diagonal bars changing to a solid bar and going about two-thirds of the way. The song then stopped downloading any further. I let iTunes attempt to download the song for a long time, but it never did. Since that time I have logged out of my computer, rebooted, logged back in, reconnected to the music store and attempted to download the remaining songs (four are apparently queued up behind the one that won't download), but the same thing happens each time.
I have already downloaded a number of songs successfully in the past, so I doubt it's a file permissions problem (the first download a week ago, which was successful, also makes this unlikely). An important change between when I purchased the six songs and before was that I upgraded to the iTunes on the CD that came with my recently purchased iPod.
I have tried contacting Apple support on this issue, but haven't heard back from them. It might be that I failed to submit the form on the website properly.
Any help is appreciated.
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Quit iTunes.
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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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