iTunes keeps interrupting when working offline

Sign out of the iTunes Store.

Does this happen when iTunes is not running? If not, just quit it.

Yes - This happens to me too and I HATE IT! I do a lot of writing offline and I like to listen to my iTunes music library while I'm working. I do not want to be bothered by an iTunes pop-up telling me it cannot connect to the iTunes store. I am not trying to connect to the iTunes store. I already know that I'm not connected to the internet. If someone knows of a fix for this I would like to know about it. Or if Apple fixes this I would like to know about it.

We live in an ever increasing internet dependent world but you should still be able to use your devices offline without issue.

There's a recent thread about this -- which I can't find at the moment, of course -- in which a few people who were experiencing this problem posted follow-up comments reporting that the problem had eventually fixed itself. FWIW, this is exactly what happened to me -- I was plagued with "We could not complete..." notices for a few hours, then it stopped.

I don't recall that anybody figured out exactly what was causing the problem, or why it went away. Another iTunes mystery.

I get this on every song play which freezes the screen until 'ok' is triggered. Also a red exclamation mark in the top right corner and when pressed it says Apple support cannot come up with any answers - the last advice was to reinstall Yosamite 15 - but this didn't rectify.

prob hasn't been fixed as I'm still getting the msg when I'm offline trying to play mussic

I'm getting the same msg.. its getting annoying

I am on OS X El Capitan. Following trick worked for me:

Connected my Mac once to the internet, launched iTunes, the error went away. The error does not show up even if I disconnect from internet. But don't quit/restart iTunes while offline, you may keep it minimised, hidden. If I restart iTunes while offline, the error reappears.

if im playing iTunes while online then disconnect, I can play songs without getting the msg but if u click the x box and relaunch iTunes I still get the msg when I play the song

What am I to do

i have this same ******* problem after i updated i iphone to ios 10.2

at first the itunes failed to update my iphone and since then i'm having this problem "apple u really need to do something about it, it has started to **** me of because there is not just one pop up it keeps on increasing with the no. of songs played."

It does this even when signed out of the iTunes Store.