ScottB said:
Yikes, that doesn't sound right at all. iTunes never goes anywhere near that high for me when I'm listening to music. Perhaps you should try reinstalling? What would make it be so much more CPU intensive for you? Odd...
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Should Apple split up iTunes?
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Yikes, that doesn't sound right at all. iTunes never goes anywhere near that high for me when I'm listening to music. Perhaps you should try reinstalling? What would make it be so much more CPU intensive for you? Odd...
~Shard~ said:
Maybe he's listening to music videos
But I agree iTunes should be reorganized. Tabs would solve this nicely. I for one am not a big fan of separate apps as long as they don't consume too much resources I am fine with having it all in one. But please organize it better. Having my podcasts and videos right in my music is not what I call organized...
Diatribe said:Maybe he's listening to music videos
Could be, but I gathered not since he said it was playing in the background, and I personally at least, do not like to watch videos in the background while I'm working - it's kinda tricky...
Diatribe said:
Yes, I agree as well. Now that iTunes is not just music, a reorganization needs to take place. But who knows, perhaps this is what Jobs already has planned when he rolls out the revamped iLife 06 in a couple weeks. Perhaps iTunes will be relegated back to just playing "tunes", while something else will be done with the video aspect. It would be tough though - iTunes has made such a name for itself now, that breaking it up, changing it, etc. would be hard to do. Let's hope Apple addresses this is one way or another though, or else it's only going to get worse.
I guess anything could happen in 2006, but I hope they make iTunes much more music based, rather than videos 'cos personally dont have any videos in my library. I doupt this though, what with the latest iPod's. I would like the video part intergrated into Quicktime, afterall I'm sure lots of windows users already have this installed as (im guessing) its installed with iTunes.
btw. im running a G3 iMac, which makes it slightly more important to have it split.
ps to shard. is your name scott? that cool.
btw. im running a G3 iMac, which makes it slightly more important to have it split.
ps to shard. is your name scott? that cool.
ScottB said:
Yep. Looks like we're both lucky to have such cool names...
So how does iTunes 6 run on a G3 iMac? A little sluggish, now that Apple is adding more and more to the app? I sure don't want to see Apple's software going the way of bloatware like some other company that comes to mind...
High iTunes CPU usage is common for a G4-based system, especially if it has a less than stellar video card. The "LCD" display thingy is the worst offender, followed by effects (EQ, sound "enhancer", etc). Beyond that, the codec and bit rate are wild cards.~Shard~ said:
iMeowbot said:
Interesting - I'm running a G4 iMac myself and as you can see from my above screenshot, I never see any high CPU utilization in iTunes. Mind you, I have an FX5200 as well, so perhaps a "less than stellar" video card, as you say, could cause additional problems which I obviously wouldn't encounter.
Thanks for the info though, that's all interesting stuff to know.
mad jew said:
They are!
Haven't you seen an iPod ad there? "Which iPod Are You?"
As so splitting into different stores, I doubt it. I doubt that Apple will have as much video content as they do in music... but who knows. Expect anything from Apple, right?
ortuno2k said:
Yeah, but they haven't started selling Macs yet in iTMS, well, not the Australian one.
~Shard~ said:
My CPU use ranges from 9% to 12% when listening to music. Track on pause and the CPU use for iTunes drops to almost 0%
If you dont have any videos or dont plan on buying any from the iTMS, just disable the video icon in the source pane. You can make iTunes look more old school by getting rid of videos, radio, party shuffle etc.
I dont think the video aspect causes any bloat in iTunes, because it can be removed, and the actual playback is handled by Quicktime anyway.
I do think that video is becoming an aspect of which a dedicated jukebox is needed. If it is to be a part of iTunes, then keep them separate via tabs. I dont want music videos in my music library..
I also think that the iTMS can do with a bit of a spring cleaning in this respect too
I dont think the video aspect causes any bloat in iTunes, because it can be removed, and the actual playback is handled by Quicktime anyway.
I do think that video is becoming an aspect of which a dedicated jukebox is needed. If it is to be a part of iTunes, then keep them separate via tabs. I dont want music videos in my music library..
I also think that the iTMS can do with a bit of a spring cleaning in this respect too
ortuno2k said:
Yeah, I've seen mine get that high as well at times, but never for prolonged periods, and never as high as the initial poster...
I think the earlier posters rite, Apple may bank on the fact that iTunes can be made to sound like your tuning in, and multiple apps may go against apples simplicity background. But I don't think this makes the need any less, I guess we should be lucky garageband is'nt intergrated into iTunes. Perhaps we should have three seperate stores, one for music, one for video and database of podcasts. It would be cool to have multiple libraries too, one for local music and one for music on my network (One I can control, not just stream).
