iTunes 8 crashes while processing artwork

[jecapaga]

Please let me not be the only one. So I downloaded and it went to do the album artwork update and it now hangs every time on random albums and then crashes. Then a restart and start over. So now I am completely shut out of using iTunes at all. Anyone??

 

[Colonel Badger]

Please let me not be the only one. So I downloaded and it went to do the album artwork update and it now hangs every time on random albums and then crashes. Then a restart and start over. So now I am completely shut out of using iTunes at all. Anyone??

Have you added or modified any of the album art or is it all downloaded from iTunes?

Mark.

 

[schmidty11]

You are not the only person....

Please let me not be the only one. So I downloaded and it went to do the album artwork update and it now hangs every time on random albums and then crashes. Then a restart and start over. So now I am completely shut out of using iTunes at all. Anyone??

Hi. Pretty much the same thing is happening to me. In fact I created my acccount with this forum just to comment on this thread.
When I first open it up, it crashes when it is Processing the Artwork Thumbnails. I pressed stop and just bypassed getting the thumbnails, but it still crashes from time to time for no reason. I just want my iTunes back, but I don't feel comfortable uninstalling a program that is such an integral part to the Mac OS.
Anyone know what to do to hopefully get iTunes 8 to possibly start working again? or at worst what to do so I can get iTunes to work again?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Bosox3]

I only had Itunes 8 crash once on me while adding album artwork.
Havent had any issues since.

 

[G4DP]

Crashed when I tried to create the genius side bar. It was downloading album art at the same time.

No problems since then though.

 

[jecapaga]

Still no solution here. I see there is also a thread on the apple site discussing the same issue. If I have 26,000 songs with artwork and it's randomly going to crash when processing all that artwork I'm totally screwed.

Even if i hit 'stop' it freezes my mac and i can only restart which leaves me completely without iTunes. SUCKS.

 

[schmidty11]

Link?

Could you put the link on this site to the apple thread so I can look at that too? thanks.
for some reason I can't find that thread.

 

[jecapaga]

Could you put the link on this site to the apple thread so I can look at that too? thanks.
for some reason I can't find that thread.

good idea..

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1701877&tstart=30

 

[schmidty11]

thanks.