iTunes 8. A resource hog?

[SouthernMac]

Ever since I downloaded iTunes 8 my cover flow has been choppy. I'm using it on a PC with about 3.5 gigs of ram running XP. There is no reason for this.

Does anybody else have this problem?

 

[xJulianx]

I've noticed in Activity Monitor that iTunes is now using around 15% CPU usage on a constant basis. Pretty sure thats gone up a fair bit from 7.7.

Having said that I have yesterdays Apple event downloading as a 750MB podcast within iTunes so that may be upping the CPU a bit, I will post back with any change once it's stopped.

edit: Now the podcast has finished downloading iTunes is using between 5% and 8% roughly. Order is restored

 

[Apple Ink]

Seemingly the Genius is analyzing your library in the background! How big is it?

 

[sammich]

iTunes on windows has always been inferior to the OS X version. I know you're comparing 7.7 on your old system. So lets just say that in the rush to release 8 for Windows by the keynote they skipped out some of the optimisation they would bring out by say 8.7

Anywho, iTunes for me uses about 6% average (from 200%) with music playing. But I'd say that RAM usage has probably gone up about 50%.

 

[SouthernMac]

I haven't tried it on my mac yet, but 7.7 ran really smooth. I thought I could blame it on genius, but it has finished everything (10,000 songs, 200 movies) and is still slow as molasses. Hopefully this can be fixed.

 

[xJulianx]

I haven't tried it on my mac yet, but 7.7 ran really smooth. I thought I could blame it on genius, but it has finished everything (10,000 songs, 200 movies) and is still slow as molasses. Hopefully this can be fixed.

I'm finding iTunes 8 extremely smooth in general, scrolling is definitely smoother than it was in 7.7.