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- 20" Intel iMac 2.16ghz late 2006; White MacBook late 2006; 160gb iPod Classic; 2nd Gen iPod Shuffle
Okay, I'm asuming the iTunes store didn't just go offline last Friday, and that the problem is just me...
I have my music on an external HD, and the other day I plugged that out with my MacBook alseep. Probably not the cleverest move, because when you wake it up you always get the device removal warning, but so be it.
Anyway, some time later I realised that none of my subscribed podcasts were downloading. They've all got (!) symbol next to them, and no matter whether I hit refresh all, try to individually start them going, unsubscribe and resubscribe, follow direct links from sites like BBC etc to subscribe again, nothing happens.
All of the files already in my library are there and present- they all play for me when I click them.
Then on Saturday, I though about trying to get the new episodes by searching on the iTunes Store, and found I couldn't access it. the most common warning tells I should make sure my network connection is active (which it is), and a couple of times it's told me that the store is unavailable.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? My internet is working fine- no problems with anything else. I haven't changed any network settings. The only thing I can possibly think of in that regard is that I accessed two new WLANs over the weekend- I got myself set up on the University network, and I connected to another one in the press box while reporting on a soccer game. But that's surely neither here nor there, I would think- and, given that all my music is at home on an external HD, I would not have been using iTunes whilst on these networks.
I'm running OSX 10.5 with all software up to date. I've tried reinstalling iTunes (from the latest version on Apple's site) to no avail.
I've tested other areas of my connectivity, youtube, high-speed video streaming, P2P software and instant messaging- no problems there. Speedtest.net is giving the results I would have expected:
And another Irish-based speed test site, with more detailed analysis has scored my connection as being near flawless.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Surely the world hasn't been a podcast free zone for the last three days, no?
Any help appreciated.
I have my music on an external HD, and the other day I plugged that out with my MacBook alseep. Probably not the cleverest move, because when you wake it up you always get the device removal warning, but so be it.
Anyway, some time later I realised that none of my subscribed podcasts were downloading. They've all got (!) symbol next to them, and no matter whether I hit refresh all, try to individually start them going, unsubscribe and resubscribe, follow direct links from sites like BBC etc to subscribe again, nothing happens.
All of the files already in my library are there and present- they all play for me when I click them.
Then on Saturday, I though about trying to get the new episodes by searching on the iTunes Store, and found I couldn't access it. the most common warning tells I should make sure my network connection is active (which it is), and a couple of times it's told me that the store is unavailable.
Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? My internet is working fine- no problems with anything else. I haven't changed any network settings. The only thing I can possibly think of in that regard is that I accessed two new WLANs over the weekend- I got myself set up on the University network, and I connected to another one in the press box while reporting on a soccer game. But that's surely neither here nor there, I would think- and, given that all my music is at home on an external HD, I would not have been using iTunes whilst on these networks.
I'm running OSX 10.5 with all software up to date. I've tried reinstalling iTunes (from the latest version on Apple's site) to no avail.
I've tested other areas of my connectivity, youtube, high-speed video streaming, P2P software and instant messaging- no problems there. Speedtest.net is giving the results I would have expected:
And another Irish-based speed test site, with more detailed analysis has scored my connection as being near flawless.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Surely the world hasn't been a podcast free zone for the last three days, no?
Any help appreciated.