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Stuck with a partially downloaded song

On my 3rd generation iPad, I am stuck with a song I partially downloaded.


In iTunes>Purchases, I clicked on the cloud next to the song title. It started to download on my iPad. Somehow, I thought the better of it, I didn't need the song on my iPad, so I broke it off. However, now it's there, on my iPad, as some sort of out-of-reach ghost song.


When I go back to iTunes>Purchases, there's no cloud next to the song, but Play. When I choose Play, I'm redirected to Music but the screen goes dark. Nothing happens. I can't swipe to delete the song either. There's a button that seems to indicate it's partially downloaded (next to "Rolling Stones Si..."), but when I click on it, it disappears:


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I've tried General>Usage>Music, but it says "No data".

iPad (3rd gen) Wi-Fi, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 23, 2012 7:12 AM

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Nov 24, 2013 8:53 PM in response to Sergeant Karma

On my iPhone 5 (iOS7), I'm having a similar problem where the iTunes music downloads stall when the phone goes to sleep and never resume when the phone wakes up.

Usually, stopping the download by clicking the progress icon and restarting it helps. Sometimes, though all the downloads get stuck in the "Waiting..." state. The only thing that would revive those is completely shutting down the phone and restarting it (closing and restarting iTunes or Music apps isn't helping, had to completely reboot the phone).

Stuck with a partially downloaded song

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