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Had the problem where one song had no playback at all and another song had a stutter for the first few seconds of playback.
Deleting from the i-tunes library and re-downloading from my purchased songs through i-tunes cloud only recovers the original faulty downloaded songs. Really would need to buy the songs again from the i-tunes store. But not sure if I would be charged again.
Can anyone help?
Contact iTunes Support about those tracks : http://reportaproblem.apple.com
If the versions in the store are corrupt, then redownloading or rebuying them (you shouldn't be able to rebuy an item that is redownloadable for free, the system should recognise it and not charge you) won't make any difference to what you download, Apple or the record label/rights-holder needs to correct something.
I take your point that the song(s) may have been corrupt in the first place, but I feel that the download may have been imperfect.
Your comment that the system should recognise that I have purchased the songs if I try to buy them again is interesting.
If I delete the defective song from my i-tunes library, go into the i-tunes store and buy the song again will it advise me the it can be downloaded again for free. If so will it advise me it is free after I click the buy button?
It should do, if it's the same song that you are looking at (i.e. same version of the album). In your original post you said that you had already deleted and redownloaded them - whether you redownload from the Purchased section or within the main part of the store doesn't (or shouldn't) matter, it should be picking up the same file from Apple's server.
Faulty song download
