I have a library of about 16000 songs and a number of playlists on my PC desktop.I recently got a new iPhone and macbook and thought match would be pretty awesome. It certainly has potential. except..
it got through the matching process one time, but barely any of the unmatched stuff was uploading (all stuck on updating) so I selected 'update iTunes match'.
Now whenever I run itunes match.. iTunes crashes when it gets to Step 3 - Uploading artwork and remaining songs.
then when I restart it says I have to log out/back into my account in order to get Match working again, and then I have to enable it all over again.
Other times I've had itunes claim it doesn't have enough memory to save the library (a statement which makes no sense given lack of RAM[12gb]/Harddrive constraints)
in general itunes runs extremely slowly.. often when I start it it has a message that says 'reading itunes library' or something like that that just hangs there for sometimes 15 minutes (not even kidding).
So I'm wondering what are some steps I might take to get performance better? I've read a few tips about stuff like turning off genius, smart playlists and the device syncing.. but the problem is I use those things. I would like to keep them on! Is there something I can do to reinstall but keep all my settings/backups/library?
it got through the matching process one time, but barely any of the unmatched stuff was uploading (all stuck on updating) so I selected 'update iTunes match'.
Now whenever I run itunes match.. iTunes crashes when it gets to Step 3 - Uploading artwork and remaining songs.
then when I restart it says I have to log out/back into my account in order to get Match working again, and then I have to enable it all over again.
Other times I've had itunes claim it doesn't have enough memory to save the library (a statement which makes no sense given lack of RAM[12gb]/Harddrive constraints)
in general itunes runs extremely slowly.. often when I start it it has a message that says 'reading itunes library' or something like that that just hangs there for sometimes 15 minutes (not even kidding).
So I'm wondering what are some steps I might take to get performance better? I've read a few tips about stuff like turning off genius, smart playlists and the device syncing.. but the problem is I use those things. I would like to keep them on! Is there something I can do to reinstall but keep all my settings/backups/library?
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