Is iTunes 11 faster on Mountain Lion than it is on Snow Leopard?

sok186 · 07:25 PM

I really want to get my iTunes going as fast as possible on my computer and wondered if it might run better in a Mountain Lion environment.

Currently running:

MacBook Pro 5,3 (Mid-2009)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz
4GB RAM
10.6.8

iTunes 11.0.1
Library: 75,933 items, 878.4 GB

With music on 2TB External WD My Book Studio connected through Firewire 800. (Not sure what the RPM is but I believe its 7200).

Any help on squeezing the most out of iTunes would be most appreciated!

Sky Blue · Jan 20, 2013, 04:22 PM

sticking some more RAM in that thing would probably help.

barkmonster · Jan 20, 2013, 04:31 PM

Max out the RAM and upgrade your internal drive to an SSD. The library files for iTunes reside on your boot drive and no matter what drive the actual music/video files are on, any RPM of hard drive is more than fast enough to stream audio and video in the bandwidths used by MPEG4/H.264 formats, even HD stuff and audio is even less demanding whether it's AAC/MP3, lossless or even raw audio like a stereo WAV or AIFF.

sok186 · Jan 20, 2013, 04:41 PM

Actually, my iTunes Library file resides on my external. Should I move it to the internal?

barkmonster · Jan 21, 2013, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by sok186

Actually, my iTunes Library file resides on my external. Should I move it to the internal?

That's really odd, it's on my system disk while the music files etc.... are on a different drive.

Jan 20, 2013, 04:14 PM	#1
sok186 macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2007	Is iTunes 11 faster on Mountain Lion than it is on Snow Leopard? I really want to get my iTunes going as fast as possible on my computer and wondered if it might run better in a Mountain Lion environment. Currently running: MacBook Pro 5,3 (Mid-2009) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz 4GB RAM 10.6.8 iTunes 11.0.1 Library: 75,933 items, 878.4 GB With music on 2TB External WD My Book Studio connected through Firewire 800. (Not sure what the RPM is but I believe its 7200). Any help on squeezing the most out of iTunes would be most appreciated! Last edited by sok186; Jan 20, 2013 at 07:25 PM. Reason: Wanted to give more info
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Jan 20, 2013, 04:22 PM	#2
Sky Blue macrumors 603 Join Date: Jan 2005	sticking some more RAM in that thing would probably help. __________________ "The case is so square that it easily stands at attention as if begging for treats."
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Jan 20, 2013, 04:31 PM	#3
barkmonster macrumors 65816 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Lancashire	Max out the RAM and upgrade your internal drive to an SSD. The library files for iTunes reside on your boot drive and no matter what drive the actual music/video files are on, any RPM of hard drive is more than fast enough to stream audio and video in the bandwidths used by MPEG4/H.264 formats, even HD stuff and audio is even less demanding whether it's AAC/MP3, lossless or even raw audio like a stereo WAV or AIFF. __________________ 16Gb iPhone 5 • 2.53Ghz Mac Mini (8Gb, 60Gb Vertex 2) • Mbox2 • LG W2343T • Samsung SyncMaster 913n
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Jan 20, 2013, 04:41 PM	#4
sok186 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Jun 2007	Actually, my iTunes Library file resides on my external. Should I move it to the internal?
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