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iTunes Store & App Store problems

by Michael Jones Jul 7th 2009 at 3:17PM

With the App Store celebrating its first birthday, there is a fair amount of news coverage, and with Michael Jackson's memorial service being broadcast, his fans are sure to be hitting iTunes up for some of their favorite songs. So it stands to reason that today is probably not a good day for the iTunes store to be having problems. Don't you just love Murphy's Law?

Reports have been steadily coming in for the past few hours that users are unable to download songs, searches are timing out, and the App Store is not working properly from the iPhone. Several users have also posted threads on the iTunes discussion board with connection problems.

I myself had troubles with searching for music from iTunes earlier today, but things seemed to be working better a short while later, so I figured things were fixed. Since then, however, we have received several other reports of troubles, yet things are working fine for me still. So it seems that this could be chalked up to routing troubles depending on your location, or it may just be intermittent and I've been lucky.

Either way, it's safe to say that there is definitely something going on, although exactly what it is remains a question. Searching seems to be working, albeit a bit slowly, and downloads are working fine for me, but others have reported not being able to download at all. As they say, YMMV (your mileage may vary).

Are you having troubles with either of the stores? Let us know in the comments.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!


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Joann127800

I cannot buy or download from either app store for nearly two weeks! This is totally frustrating. Help!

September 17 2009 at 12:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
DW

I was not able to rent a movie last night because iTunes was not recognizing the security code from my credit card. Once it did finally accept the correct code I had been entering for 5 minutes, it timed out with anything I tried to download.

July 08 2009 at 9:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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astanfill66

Tried to download three songs, only 2 downloaded but one had an "error" and would not download, now I have been charged for three songs yet only recieved two.

July 12 2009 at 2:19 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Argentini

Winston Churchill once said "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." That's grammatically correct too, but sounds ridiculous.

I dislike intensive pronoun usage. "ugh" is how I would say it if I were speaking aloud, so that's how I write it.

;)

July 07 2009 at 10:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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TuxToaster

Haha, well put. Err... that should be "put well," according to Sir Churchill. :-)

July 07 2009 at 10:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Argentini

I know, crazy huh?

Your posts have been a pleasure to read - I was just being silly. Keep up the great work!

July 07 2009 at 11:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jonathan ober

msnbc had a whole thing about internet traffic being high today around the time of this article and the seemingly slow connection in relationship to the mass amount of people tapping into the servers around the world to watch the king of pops funeral. so i pin it on that. i was in and out of the app store and itunes store several times today without a hitch...isolated incident...i think so.

millions watch michael jackson's funeral, yet only a handful show up at Jesus' tomb...weird world we live in these days.

July 07 2009 at 10:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Argentini

"I myself..."

As opposed to "I someone else"?

ugh.

July 07 2009 at 9:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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TuxToaster

Although you may not care for the usage, in this case "myself" is considered an intensive pronoun, and is correct English. So yes, it is not necessary and could easily be removed from the sentence without altering the meaning.

The choice to use it is simply dependent on the author's writing style, and in this case, that's how I would say it if I were speaking aloud, so that's how I write it. :-)

July 07 2009 at 10:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jay

The Dark Knight and Batman Begins are gone from the store :(

July 07 2009 at 7:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dakaix

Not sure if this is connected with the issues, but MobileMe Gallery isnt working for me (that is the private admin of it, not the public view - though thats slow).

iPhoto tells me that the galleries aren't accessible, and wants to delete them - MobileMe just reports the standard "MobileMe is unvailable" error when the page fails to load.

July 07 2009 at 6:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James

Oh my god I almost killed myself earlier today. Nothing was working. Am still getting 'cannot connect' messages on the iPhone.

As others have said, glad to find this wasn't just me.

July 07 2009 at 5:07 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
johnclaus

I'm having trouble listening to new voicemails on the 3GS. Anyone else having this problem?

July 07 2009 at 4:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jim

I just bought an IPhone today and I've not been able to download anything except for free podcasts, if what you want to download seems to be related to your account (computer authorization for the store, downloading apps, retrieving account information) then you may find it not working. Both my desktop and laptop are giving the same network error:

We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The network connection timed out.
Make sure you network settings are correct and that your network connection is active, then try again.



July 07 2009 at 4:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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