iTunes Store slow on iPad

I'm seeing improvement but I wouldn't say it's fixed - certain podcasts (***, Nerdist) are loading completely and quickly, but I still get the half loaded screen for others (Comedy Bang Bang, Doug Loves Movies). I bet this is the band-aid until the next ios update.

Ian - Thanks again for all your help with this, but I now find it really strange. I experienced the problem upon installation of iOS 5.1.1 It was consistently poor until a recent significant improvement (albeit still very slightly slower than before).

Previews of standard sized albums now appear within 3-4 seconds, with the 241 track Beatles Box set appearing in around 8-9.

Prior to this improvement, the fault meant that even the smallest of albums would take around 45 seconds for the preview samples to be made available, so a huge difference.

What's even more bizarre about this, is that I live only a few miles down the road from you near Sale, UK.

I have seen a dramatic improvement in this over the past few days. I have about 18000 tracks on Match, for point of reference, and I have been trying this daily since Keanos reported it improved on June 4 to see if it is indeed so. So far it has been.

I launched iTunes on my iPad 2 over wifi, and searched for 'The Dark Side Of The Moon.' It took about 15 seconds to pull up a useable list of results. Summining album artwork still takes the most time. It sure would be nice if the app would allow you to make selections before the art finished loading. Hint, hint, Apple.

Selecting the 'Experience' version, with 24 tracks, it returned a puchaseable previewable list of songs in about 7 seconds.

Subsequent attempts showed about the same results, with the search usually taking less than than 10 seconds. Opening "150 Hair Metal Under Cover Hits" (har) took no longer to get previewable results than the 24 track 'The Dark Side Of The Moon.'

It's gone fom unuseable to quite workable. Thank you, Apple. I wish you were seeing better results, Ian.

Things might have improved, but are no way working as they were prior to 5.1.1. My iTunes match has all kinds of issues.

iPad and iPhone do not display album artwork, or playlists. Downloading songs from the cloud to my devices is virtually impossible.

Songs uploaded to the cloud via my iMac aren't instantly visible on iPad or iPhone.

Everything is normal between iMac, iTunes match and apple tv, but iPad and iPhone is loaded with the issues outlined above.

Is anybody else experiencing similar issues?

I find that things are almost back to normal. The only thing that seems to take longer than normal is sometimes seeing the artwork associated with what I'm searching for takes an additiional few seconds to come into focus. Otherwise, things are much, much, much better than they were. Mabye APPLE fed the hamsters turning the wheels to the database that a ga-zillion and 3 iPod and iPad users are hitting at the same time.

Considering...the CPU power & hardeware to keep the wheels moving must be amazing

I'm finding iTunes perfectly usable again. Somebody, somewhere changed something. Whoever it was: thanks!

Ian, Are you experiencing any issues with iTunes match similar to what I posted on June 9th? I seem to be the only one that had iTunes store issues, but also iTunes match issues. They began at the same time. Store has improved, but match has not. Let me know. Thanks. Michael (Miami, FL)

This is the very first time I'm getting this kind of issue today, too. Every time I search for a certain download to purchase, but nothing showed up at all. And I tried to do it over and over again, and nothing is still showing up in it.

Can there ever be a possible solution to this problem going on right now?