iTunes is unbelievable

[Diatribe]

i'm not sure that's true, at all. can anyone verify this with real data, not just a reasonable guess? I think that it has little/no effect on load-up time, because the actual "Library" file that it loads is tiny.

I don't know, sometimes when starting up it shows a window with a progress bar for 3-4 secs where it is "loading iTunes library".

It has gotten worse over time so I suspect the size of the library does play a role in this. (I have over 10,000 items at about 80GB)

 

[islandman]

I have no issues here. It almost sounds like a SAN/networking issue to me.

 

[clevin]

i'm not sure that's true, at all. can anyone verify this with real data, not just a reasonable guess? I think that it has little/no effect on load-up time, because the actual "Library" file that it loads is tiny.

no, you are wrong, my music library is 13,000 songs, and the library file is 22MB, it does take some time for iTunes to load. like, 4-5 seconds

 

[skunk]

I'm assuming you meant 22GB.

 

[clevin]

I'm assuming you meant 22GB.

no, 22mb, i was referring to the library database file, my music files are 50GB. when iTunes started, it only read database file, not real music files.

 

[freebooter]

I've had it with iTunes 7. It takes 4-5 seconds to open a song, it takes 2-3 seconds of wheel spinning to even scroll, it takes 3-4 seconds just to respond to a menu click, it's shuffle is broken. In short it is a gigantic piece of ****.

In my current setup, iTunes on my macbook core duo is loaded with a few thousand songs playing off a SAN. Foobar 2000 (installed in paralells) and Amarok (linux partition) running on the same machine w/ the same SAN, open files in .1 of a sec, have no problem scrolling etc. Unfortunately under OS X there doesn't appear to be a reasonable alternative to itunes, if there is please somebody let me know. And whoever put out itunes 7, please die in a fire, that is all.

There is a problem either with your computer or the software in your head.
I'm guessing the latter. Good luck. (oh, dropping aspartame from your diet might help)

 

[Squonk]

I know, right? I had no idea Flowbee was not a sophisticated network engineer!

Excellent!

And I had no idea that you had no idea about Flowbee... Of course, neither did I.

Pass the hot chocolate!

 

[mkrishnan]

Pass the hot chocolate!

Mmmm, I do need at least one more peppermint mocha before Christmas....

P.S. semi-relevantly to this thread (which clearly isn't going anywhere anyway ) I finally set up iTunes library sharing from my iMac so that my iBook can see its library. Playing H.264 videos across the wireless network worked surprisingly well! I guess I could've tried one of those videos out without having to share the iTunes library just by navigating to it in Finder from the iBook, but anyways, I was pleasantly surprised.