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Ideas about "radio tuning error" or am I off to the genius bar?

A few days ago days we got this message when we tried to listen to the radio through iTunes. "An error occurred while contacting the radio tuning service. Check your internet connection, or try again later." The internet connection is fine. It still won't connect. The only thing we did before this was delete a few TV shows from iTunes.

iBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Feb 8, 2009 12:29 PM

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Mar 17, 2012 3:10 PM in response to GrandSlam90

Thanks

GrandSlam90

Your suggestion worked for me for the moment.

Unchecking the "multiple speakers" allows all radio stations to refresh and reappear - then able to reselect my multiple speakers and all radio genres are playing just fine!

I am using Macbook Air OS X 10.6.8 and iTunes 10.6 - I noticed that when I reconnected to my "multiple speakers" it shows connecting with Airplay. Don't remember it saying that before -

Just wish Apple would weigh-in and give us some information about this issue.

Mar 30, 2014 3:50 AM in response to I_Betyar

Just happened to me this AM, I stopped iTunes radio to take a call, tried to space bar to restart and I got the error message. Tried all the fixes noted here and in other threads, upgraded, rebooted, reset, etc, no joy.


Since I noticed this thread has been open so long I went looking for a player. I only listen to Soma anyway, and they have a dedicated player so I downloaded it (free no less!) and now I've got radio again.


iTunes was annoying me anyhow, overengineered, slow, too many features that I never have nor never will use, I probably won't be using the program again since on this Mac I only listen to radio, and use my iPhone for MP3, etc.


My time is too valuable to waste "trying" things. I've been using their products since the Apple II days, and we've moved far away from the "it just works" days. My advice to anyone having the same problem is don't waste any more than 15 minutes or so "trying" things. Just download another player.


One thing is for sure: we'll never hear from Apple about this problem.

Ideas about "radio tuning error" or am I off to the genius bar?

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