So I sent this to apple as a feature request, was wondering if anyone experiences the same thing as me, and your thoughts in general on it.
Thanks!
"I have a macbook connected to an AP Extreme running 5Ghz 802.11n, this is my primary music serving machine, and I usually stream my itunes library via the homeshare feature over to my windows 7 64bit machine running 64bit itunes, which is hooked into a 1GB switch on the same network segment.... I have the current version of both apps (9.2) on each machine, but I have noticed that it takes an extremely long time to load the playlists/libraries on the remote machine to play the songs... then once they have all loaded on that remote machine, it has to rebuff the stream between each song, only it just hangs there and doesn't actually jump to the next song. My feature request is to have the remote machine/itunes create an index of the playlists/library of the machine serving the itunes music... once the primary index is created, most changes to libraries are minor, and would allow for much faster load times/playback of the music, and the index can update in the background with a differential scan, keeping things up to date. On smaller libraries I am sure this isn't as big an issue... and I don't have the largest library by far but approx 5800 songs at approx. 43GB of HD space, it's not tiny either."
Thanks!
"I have a macbook connected to an AP Extreme running 5Ghz 802.11n, this is my primary music serving machine, and I usually stream my itunes library via the homeshare feature over to my windows 7 64bit machine running 64bit itunes, which is hooked into a 1GB switch on the same network segment.... I have the current version of both apps (9.2) on each machine, but I have noticed that it takes an extremely long time to load the playlists/libraries on the remote machine to play the songs... then once they have all loaded on that remote machine, it has to rebuff the stream between each song, only it just hangs there and doesn't actually jump to the next song. My feature request is to have the remote machine/itunes create an index of the playlists/library of the machine serving the itunes music... once the primary index is created, most changes to libraries are minor, and would allow for much faster load times/playback of the music, and the index can update in the background with a differential scan, keeping things up to date. On smaller libraries I am sure this isn't as big an issue... and I don't have the largest library by far but approx 5800 songs at approx. 43GB of HD space, it's not tiny either."