wunbadapple, I can't claim that I understand any of it, but it sure worked! You deserve major kudos for taking all this time to figure it out. I can't believe it, that A) it's working and B) no one at Itunes Support could provide this info. After three emails telling me it was my fault, I had given up. But it's WORKING NOW! Thank you so much, sincerely!

Wow, iTunes seems to be allowing me to preview the entire 90 seconds now.  Thanks for the info!

You are freakin awesome!!!!  WEEKS of trying everything and this worked perfectly.  It had to be something in windows since previews worked fine on my iPad but not my pc.  THANK YOU!!!  I'm a total novice when it comes to that stuff and this was a breeze ... 5 minutes of online reading about DNS and did the change and BAM.  Really appreciate it.  Now on to whatever else apple will mess up with the next update!

Wunbadapple:   After living with the non-iCloud 'you will always have access to your purchased music' (NOT) I am looking for something to go TO but have not found anything suitable.  I teach fitness classes and every studio is iPod ready these days.  Suggestions are welcome ... As are music sites that are as easy to use/search as iTunes.  I hate amazon ... You have to know exactly what you want and one of the benefits of iTunes has been finding similar type songs.  I won't do spotify because I don't want to pay monthly and am kind of stumped right now.

I took your advice the other day by purchasing music through www.breakbeat.co.uk instead of iTunes, and although I paid more due to the exchange rate, I'm glad I did it. 

/CSB

The quality of the Apple products I own seem to be extremely poor.  My iPod touch needs a new headphone jack, my iPhone needs a new battery after 1½ years and I've already replaced the heat sink and airport card on this Macbook (using Bootcamp).  It will be a slow process, but I will do my best to get off Apple products, ESPECIALLY if the iPhone 5 (or what I'm sure will be called the 'new iPhone') uses the new dock connector. 

My 2¢ and I know Apple couldn't care less.

Point taken wunbadapple ... I am putting together a game plan for how I can do this over a period of time.   It seems like the ipods have been getting shoddier by the year.  Battery issues seem to be constant and if you get one year out of them, it's a miracle.  Also the hold button is always the first thing to go ... they do design them to look nice but it's like Judge Judy says ... beauty fades.  I'll be researching alternatives for the ipod but having just sunk a lot of money into a new computer and now having to repurchase a lot of music that's gone, it's going to be a while.

I agree with you, and I am glad that I don't use Apple products. I like my Sansa Clip just fine. I am happy not to be one of the worshippers at Jobs's shrine. If I were an American, I would be pretty ticked off at Apple outsourcing so many jobs and paying CS staff less than Lululemon (yes, I read the NYT too). I agree that Itunes has convinced people that they've cornered the market, and it's up to the consumer to find alternatives. The truth is that people are so slavishly devoted to Icrap that they will put up with anything, and so Apple doesn't have to care. But those of us who still consider ourselves to be individuals can at least have the satisfaction of taking our business elsewhere.

Definitey works!  Thanks for the help!  Too bad Apple isn't as helpful as you!

This worked for me with Windows 7...thank you soooo much for the advice.  Now playing full 1.30 minutes of song samples!!!!

Afraid not.. on my end anyway.  I saw that solution on another thread a while back and tried it right away, but it didn't change anything regarding the previews. 

DIdn't help....still 10 sec. songs!!