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Itunes 9 is a slow -and horrid- mess..
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Are you updated to iTunes 9.0.1. iTunes 9 on my Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook is running perfectly. If everything is up to date, I would recommend reinstalling iTunes and seeing what happens.
i also have the same late 2008 unibody macbook. running 10.6.1 and itunes 9.0.1. does it 'run' perfectly? yes. is it is slow and bloated when going through the itunes store? definite yes.
honestly itunes is the worst media player out there. if it wasnt for apple locking the iphone to this crappy app i'd be using something else entirely.
overall:
Still slow, but a bit more acceptable
things I noticed:
Opened the "about iTunes" screen, and the scrolling text is stuttering all over the place.
Scrolling is also unresponsive. Coverflow on the other hand is pretty smooth.
They should just really clean iTunes up, make it 64-bit and Cocoa
Still slow, but a bit more acceptable
things I noticed:
Opened the "about iTunes" screen, and the scrolling text is stuttering all over the place.
Scrolling is also unresponsive. Coverflow on the other hand is pretty smooth.
They should just really clean iTunes up, make it 64-bit and Cocoa
I'm not having any of these issues, iTunes is faster than it was before, on most things.
How many songs do you have and how big is your total library? I have 3300 songs and my song library is 14GB. I created a new library so I haven't added my movies and stuff in, but that brings it to 60GB and it wasn't slow previously.
How many songs do you have and how big is your total library? I have 3300 songs and my song library is 14GB. I created a new library so I haven't added my movies and stuff in, but that brings it to 60GB and it wasn't slow previously.
I'm having the same issues. I am running iTunes 9 on Tiger, but that shouldn't really make a difference. The scrolling is very slow, and it lags when I try to advance songs. Maybe it's just my computer, but I doubt it. I have 2GB of memory, so it shouldn't lag.
2.4ghz c2d imac...4gb ram..works fine
works fine on my g5 and g4 imacs too, 1.8ghz and 800mhz respectively (both with 768mb ram)
how big is your itunes library? Mine uses like 400+MB of memory..but i have 60GB in music
My library is pretty big, but still.. iTunes 8 never gave me any problems. And I'm running it on a MP for crying out loud. you should think it would just work
I even deleted most of my movies and tv shows from iTunes and disabled Home Sharing and Genius features...
So iTunes is giving 110% (or taking)?
lol.. pretty much
110% of nothing that is, haha..Attachments
Working great on my rig (see sig). Faster than iTunes 8 across the board. Right now, I'm listening to a Beethoven symphony (No. 6 in F for those who are curious) which is a CD rip, encoded in a 256 kbps mp3. iTunes is using ~6% CPU and 62.45 MB of real memory.
To paraphrase John Nack: "Do you really want iTunes to use more than 4GB of RAM?"
Anyways, Daring Fireball had a good piece on the topic of your desires: iTunes and Cocoa
I got 12GB in it, so yeah, if it speeds up iTunes, I'm all for it
Good read on your link, but " What really matters are features and user experience, not the developer technologies used to make them." I honestly don't need anymore features in iTunes. I don't even use half of them right now. I just want a fast and reliable piece of software that organizes my music..
I too am hoping that Apple fixes itunes. I am assuming that your music library is on an external drive. Mine is and it is very slow when changing songs or just about anything that requires disk access. You can turn off the option "keep music folder organized" but then you lose that useful functionality. There is a thread on the Apple support site about this issue. If your music library is on your local hard drive, then the performance seems to be acceptable, but if it is on an external drive (nas or usb) then you start getting a 2-3 second wait when changing songs. Itunes 9.01 seems a bit faster than 9.0, but it the lag is still unacceptable.
The music is on a 2TB WD Green drive inside the second bay. That's not the speediest HD around, but still. I don't think that's the main problem. I organized everything myself so that option is turned off.
It seems to be working a bit better now, with CPU usage around 50%, but I keep thinking that's an awful lot, just to play a mp3..
Same problem on my MBP. Ever since the update, it has been horrible and it keeps crashing on me.
Worst Apple experience yet
Latest 24" iMac with 4GB Ram. iTunes 8 worked perfectly with my 400GB library.
Both versions of 9.0 have been complete dogs. Hardly anything works. It takes 40 minutes to insert cover art into a standard album!!!
So fed up, looked into Songbird but that isn't much better.
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Latest 24" iMac with 4GB Ram. iTunes 8 worked perfectly with my 400GB library.
Both versions of 9.0 have been complete dogs. Hardly anything works. It takes 40 minutes to insert cover art into a standard album!!!
So fed up, looked into Songbird but that isn't much better.
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