I am repeatedly getting an Error 5556 message when attempting to download a song from my online iTunes library back to my Mac.
On attempting to download the song the first message that appears is:
Followed by:
This keeps happening. Multiple songs.
Starting to worry that my iMatch music is a waste of money as I am unable to download the songs again.
It worked originally but doesn't any more.
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.1)
I'm having the same error. In addition I'm unable to play the song and now have an exclamation point next to the song. It appears that this problem exists with a number of songs in my playlist as iTunes skips over several songs before it stops on a song and starts playing.
Im getting this too, not been able to download ANY of my songs. Just had a new hard drive fitted so its been wiped, Im a dj and have no music for my 2 gigs this weekend. Very concerned. Will let you know if I find a fix.
Similar problem but after restoring my iPhone and restoring it strangely the problem went away. I suspect that Apple noticed the bug but as usual won't admit they have a problem.
I'm having the same problem now for a couple of weeks - has anyone found a workaround - iTunes support hasn't given me any helpful infomation yet
I was having this same problem but noticed it resolved itself. I think the issue is that you're trying to download too quickly. iTunes seemed to go through each song in my library and once it made it to the end, I could download again
I just got this error today, but in an odd way.
It was working fine 30m ago. I was downloading updated versions of some albums. One of the tracks of one of the albums had a digital glitch in the original 128k protected version (Lustmord, Heresy Pt. 1 2:26 in). This error does not happen on the CD. After listening to the updated track, the error is still there. I went to my history to report the error, sent the report, and continued on. The problem is that now I get the 5556 error. I have no idea why. The iTunes Store did ask me to log in for some reason when I went to access my log but I was already logged in. No matter, probably a security measure. However, after the report was sent I can no longer download songs from iCloud.
Error 5556, I'm guessing, is a network error on the server side whose error code string was not baked into iTunes which is why it says "unknown error". I've seen several reports that people's accounts just started working again later. I hope this is the case with me. I'll still report this error to Apple.
EDIT: And yes, I did the whole log out, etc. That didn't fix it, nor should I have to do that to make this work.
Yip, mines fixed it'self too. Bit of a strange one.
Error 5556 - Preventing Download from iMatch to iTunes
