Itunes radio error message.

All of a sudden it's working again, moreover it's working on a computer that I have not updated to 10.6 yet.

Perhaps it was your fax!

Yes the fax thing does seem a little strange...maybe the fax is just a hurdle to prevent e-mail floods....I did fax Steve Jobs once while trying to raise corporate funding for Herbie Hancock's Imagine Tour.... I did get a response.......anyway I am a long-time customer and shareholder ( and I'm on vacation with my family right now and not wanting to worry about this)......My discussions with Apple support are well documented, plus this support thread adds a huge amount of input that I would use if I were an Apple developer.....I do plan to bring this issue to Mr. Cook's attention......

Best!

OK, just tried it this a.m. and it seems to be working faster than ever...and all the genres I checked seem to be loading very quickly. Go figure.

Only some of the genre's are loading......

Well...here we are late Sunday evening. I'm afraid I've not had the opportunity to deal with all this for several days, having spent the last several days either under the weather or just plain in hospital.

However, having just now tried it, I am once again achieving a full and succesful inventory dump. Albeit very very slowly.

No doubt the whole thing will take a powder again by morning. That has seemed their habit of late...fix the problem on the weekend, throw the lot to shambles through the week.

....sT

Hooray!

I finally have the 'Electronica' genre working on my iTunes radio! (version 10.6)

So GOOD to have my music back.

*crosses fingers* Wanting this status to be permanent. 😉

IMHO

D N S.... it is usually D N S failing - always always check your dns is resolving - after all itunes is a browser and needs to connect to the streaming sites.

Not to say sometimes the service may fail - but i wouldnt know for sure.

Just learned the hard way.

i have error

I'm not getting an error message for the radio stations, it has all been working just fine for years! But now when I try to listen to BBC Radio 4, I get BBQ radio from the States! In fact there is trouble with all BBC radio stations. When I access it from their website, it is pretty good but not great. Anyone else?

They fixed the error I opriginally posted last year with an update. Mostly listen to XM and my own collection lately but think I'll go back to the radio channels for a while.

I just tried some channels I like and they played fine. Then I tried the 6 BBC channels. The three BBC 4 did not come in at all (Keep trying to connect). The #5s and Central came in topnotch.

thanks! I'll keep trying to get BBC 4 - love it for its radio dramas etc. which the other channels don't have. Funny it should have been working just fine, then suddenly stopped working. Nothing changed on my system.

This issue isn't resolved yet. Here it is JUNE 2013 and the **** service is still fubar.

I just tried all the BBCs and they all came in fine.

My iTunes hogged the CPU at 96% and still didn't finish. The message was "Contacting tuning service..."

I fixed the problem by removing folder "~/Library/Caches/com.apple.iTunes", e.g.: /Users/joe/Library/Caches/com.apple.iTunes

I did not bother to figure out what file was causing the problem, so I just deleted the whole folder.

Note 1: You need to quit iTunes before removing the folder.

Note 2: The Finder does not show the folder, you need to navigate to it with the "Go to folder" dialog. You can remove the folder from the command line too like I did.

Note 4: Just in case, make a back up copy of the folder somewhere.

Same problem with me, Using iTunes 9 on a G4 powerbook running Tiger.

Things worked just fine until this morning when I decided to do a re-start. I do that every couple of months just because. Well, I shouldn't have done that. Now I get the same message as the others including one saying that iTunes can not connect to the upgrade server. Interestingly, it connects just fine to the iTunes Store. Go figure ~