I have a 24" iMac, 2.8 GHz w/ 4 GB 800 MHz SDRAM running Leopard 10.5.5.
I updated iTunes to 8.0.2 this past weekend (on 11/28). I've never experienced any slowdowns in iTunes regardless of the size of the playlist. In fact, I'd never encountered the "beach ball of death" or had any other slowdowns in iTunes since purchasing this computer back in early October 2008.
However, this morning when working in iTunes (copying some songs from my main Library to a playlist), I kept getting the spinning cursor and iTunes would freeze for a few seconds--up to 15 seconds a couple of times. The track playing timer would stop and I wouldn't be able to do anything but wait. This happened while I was selecting multiple tracks and it happened probably three or four times a minute.
I also noticed that a CD I'd ejected still showed up on the desktop and my iPod icon duplicated when I went to update it. I ejected both from the desktop but neither disappeared.
Any ideas? I'm assuming it's related to iTunes and nothing else, but I experienced no similar problems within Safari this morning.
I updated iTunes to 8.0.2 this past weekend (on 11/28). I've never experienced any slowdowns in iTunes regardless of the size of the playlist. In fact, I'd never encountered the "beach ball of death" or had any other slowdowns in iTunes since purchasing this computer back in early October 2008.
However, this morning when working in iTunes (copying some songs from my main Library to a playlist), I kept getting the spinning cursor and iTunes would freeze for a few seconds--up to 15 seconds a couple of times. The track playing timer would stop and I wouldn't be able to do anything but wait. This happened while I was selecting multiple tracks and it happened probably three or four times a minute.
I also noticed that a CD I'd ejected still showed up on the desktop and my iPod icon duplicated when I went to update it. I ejected both from the desktop but neither disappeared.
Any ideas? I'm assuming it's related to iTunes and nothing else, but I experienced no similar problems within Safari this morning.