iTunes 9 - anyone with high CPU usage?

[colkilgore]

After installing iTunes 9 I've noticed that my MacBook fans were getting pretty loud, so i've looked in Activity Monitor, and saw that iTunes while playing a regular mp3 is using around 30% of CPU. When I disabled the visual equalizer in now playing window it goes down to around 5-10% which is still too high for a simple task like playing an mp3. I don't think it was that high in iTunes 8.



The problem occurs on both my machines, an older white MacBook, and a new unibody MacBook Pro, both on 10.6.

I've also already experienced one crash with iTunes 9. Here's hoping for 9.0.1 soon.

 

[stridemat]

Mine is running about the same so not sure what problem you are having? Is it updating your genius results or doing anything else apart from playing music?

 

[marioman38]

Between 12 and 14 percent. Reasonable, I'd say.

 

[Surely]

I'm up at around 30% as well, and scrolling through the grid view is really jumpy.

I think it's because iTunes is still analyzing my library.

Update: It just finished analyzing, and it's smooth now. My CPU usage is around 10% while playing a song.

All's well.....

 

[celticpride678]

Yeah. It seemed like after a genius and library "check" and finally, restart of the app, it runs pretty smoothly now. Much better than iTunes 8 so far.

 

[tongteh]

you guys should be happy!! i have got this!

 

[Mackilroy]

Nothing like that here, iTunes isn't taking two percent of my CPU power.