iTMS playing favorites with links?
I've been going mad trying to open links in the iTMS tonight. Every Tuesday I go to the Just Added section and peruse the listing. Tonight, if I click on any link to a band that's even slightly less than mainstream, it chokes and times out. If I click on the popular stuff it goes right through. I've been at this for about half an hour, trying different artists, different genres and links from different weeks. I've tried everything from Air to Tupac, from 5 for Fighting to Yo Yo Ma. The result is consistent: a popular artist's link will open instantly and any other link times out. BTW, this is on a very fast cable modem, so it's not an ISP or network issue on my end of things.
I don't know what the deal would be, I would be surprised if Apple were doing something deliberate but is there any reasonable explanation for this phenomenon?
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OK, it's not that consistent. I tried the Doors and INXS and they timed out too.
I don't know what the deal would be, I would be surprised if Apple were doing something deliberate but is there any reasonable explanation for this phenomenon?
edit:
OK, it's not that consistent. I tried the Doors and INXS and they timed out too.
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But I would think that Apple would be using something like WO which has load balancing and stuff, so this shouldn't really be an issue... I can't imagine that they would be doing this on purpose, though.