Applications :: Bloated ITunes - More With Every Version
Mar 26, 2009
Am I the only one who feels that iTunes has become far too bloated and heavy on system resources for such a simple task as......playing mp3s? Theres no reason for iTunes to be taking up 70+ mb of ram. And why is still called 'iTunes' when its more of a media central application, seeing how it combines iphones, ipods, apple TV, ringtones, tv episodes, etc. Its become way too broad to be called iTunes.
This is one thing that bugs me. Some of us prefer not to use such a proprietary based digital audio player like the ipod/iphones and have more common sense by using UMS based players which dont require software, and therefor have no need for all the extra features of it. And seeing how theres really only itunes for mac thats worthy of being used, im pretty much stuck on iTunes. Basically, I *ONLY* use iTunes for mp3 playback on my mac. If this was the case on windows side, I'd have a plethora of choices (im expecting blind apple sheep to start screaming at me for that one). Each time I setup iTunes with a new installation or new login account, i turn off ALLLL the features. The only one that stays is internet radio.
Basically: iTunes has become far too bloated and broad. There should be something lighter for such a common, simple, everyday used task as playing mp3s.
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Nov 16, 2010
I have a fairly large music collection consisting of ripped CDs (wma and mp3), downloaded albums and singles (from itunes and other sites), my own recorded music, podcasts...you name it. I've used itunes on a number of PCs and now have it on my new imac. I want to gather everything together in one place.
I've also gone through the process of backing up my collection in a rather haphazard manner, which has meant that when I gathered all my mp3s from various places, there were many cloned folders and files all over the place. I seem to have about 4 or 5 different folders called "itunes". Also, due to the fact that itunes consolidates your collection by copying some files, there are even more duplicates kicking around.
The result is, that I now have an mp3 library of around 260gb of files, and probably about 200gb of that is made up of duplicate files...................
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Jun 9, 2010
I freaking hate iTunes. Programs for simple tasks like uploading music onto devices should be efficently coded, not resource hogs that are incredibly unintuitive and needlessly complicated. Why can't we just drag and drop music and videos directly onto our phone like we can with just about every other media player? I already have all of my music organized just as I want it on my computer. Just let me drag the folders I want directly into the iPhone without having to bother with a 100mb download that runs like crap.
There's absolutely no excuse why such a simple function needs such a complicated program. Quote:..................
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Aug 30, 2010
And what it is for?
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Sep 2, 2010
If I download the new version of iTunes, is there an option to opt out of, or switch off ping?
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Sep 19, 2010
I hope this is in the proper section...I bought an album on iTunes yesterday and today I realized it was the clean version. Does iTunes offer some sort of exchange for mistakes like this?
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Apr 20, 2009
Does anyone notice it takes a few seconds longer for iTunes 8 to load, or am I the only one with this issue, it seems to take forever.
Does anyone know a way to fix this?
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Apr 2, 2010
For some unknown reason, I can no longer choose 'Create MP3 version' from the right-click menu. I can still do it from the 'Advanced' menu, but why could it be gone from the right-click menu, all of a sudden? I have tried changing to AAC/WAV and other codecs, but it doesn't help.
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Sep 8, 2010
I highlighted about 23 songs from an album, and clicked on create apple lossless version. I now have two copies of each song. Shouldn't it have asked me if I wanted to delete the original version? I guess I need to delete each one individually?
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Feb 4, 2009
I just noticed something in iTunes 8. In the Advanced drop down menu, you can now create iPod or iPhone and Apple TV versions of the videos you have in iTunes. However, the only video I can import are already iPod ready.
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Dec 19, 2009
What was the first version of iTunes that can plat AAC radio streams? I use a very old G4 500 MHz powermac to listen to iTunes streaming internet radio, but more and more stations are switching to AAC streams, which the old 10.3 compatible version of iTunes doesn't support and won't play them. The current version of itunes' minimum system requirements is a 1 Ghz G4, so I can't use the current version of iTunes. If I upgrade this machine to OS 10.4, will I be able to install a version of iTunes that plays AAC radio streams?
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Sep 29, 2009
I was wondering if anyone knew why ITunes takes forever to make an "ipod/iphone" version of a movie from the advanced menu? It seems like when i use mpeg stream clip or another video converter it is much quicker.
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Apr 6, 2009
For years I've used iTunes' "Create AAC version" .mp3 to .m4a feature in the advanced menu, primarily to reduce the file size of my many thousand mp3 songs.
Since the latest update to iTunes, whenever I do this now, the AAC version file size created by iTunes get larger, and makes the .m4a significantly bigger than an .mp3.
I understood the very point of an AAC/.m4a was to be a smaller sized file of an equivilent .mp3 while keeping a similar quality.
I know large artwork affects the file size, but this still happens regardless of artwork.
Does anyone know what's changed re this feature in this latest update?
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Jun 17, 2010
In order to install Windows 7 via bootcamp, do you have to use the full version of windows or can you use the upgrade disc to install? I figured I should ask before buying another license as I have an upgrade version of Windows 7 Pro that I don't use. I do own previous versions of Windows (all of them....just like I do Mac OS).
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Jun 24, 2010
I leave my music folder out of it, because I'm constantly getting new music and I'd like to be able to have a backup that I can actually access and listen to my music. So here's what I have setup. Here is my crontab:
Code: @daily rsync -a /Users/ianyoung/Music/iTunes/ /Volumes/Network Storage/Audio/ &> /dev/null This rsync tab just backs up my itunes folder to my drobo every night. Okay, so here's a ls -l of the itunes folder on my imac:
Code: drwxr-xr-x 11 ianyoung staff 374 Jun 21 18:05 iTunes Now that's the folder whos contents are getting rsynced every night. well here's the folder that it's going to...
Code: drwxr-xr-x+ 11367 ianyoung staff 60548526 Jun 21 18:05 Audio I don't know wtf happens, but the filesystem thinks that that folder is so huge. I can't even get into it in the terminal to run an ls.
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Dec 19, 2010
So after startup it uses 2 gb of Ram. Some people say that Snow Leopard releases this RAM when needed, this however is not true. If I run VMware and an App, the RAM is full and it starts using the disk. Why on earth does Snow Leopard drain 2 GB of RAM. It's ridiculous. ( VMware is limited to 1 gb and the App also uses 1 gb, so 2 gb in total ). I got 4 gb of memory btw. I wouldn't dare running Snow Leopard with only 1 GB of Ram, something Windows 7 does with no problems at all.
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Feb 16, 2010
Safari quickly gets bloated-starts low and goes to over a GB. Very slooow.I've cleaned it out several times-once with an Apple genius.I have a Macbook Pro Aluminum with 4GBCan anyone suggest a fix-I really like Safari
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Oct 22, 2010
I have a Logitech Anywhere MX mouse and it is great with my Mac. Out of the box, it "just works" to about 95% of what I need. The button on top initiates Expose which is what I want. The "back" button initiates dashboard. I would rather have the back button be, well, back, and the forward button initiate dashboard. To do this I think I need to install the Logitech software - Logitech Control Center.
So, my question, is it worth it? I'm kind of a minimalist and prefer to not put software on my computer unless it is absolutely necessary. If the LCC is considered bloat (or even halfway bloat) it won't be worth it to me.
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Apr 14, 2012
I've had my Macbook for a couple years. I'm not someone who downloads a ton of stuff, but I suspect that my sluggish performance is due to the many startup items I have.Using iBoost, I've identified many, and know where they are, but I don't know which ones are necessary. [code]
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 24, 2012
error message: itunes library .itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version. I downloaded and in stalled the latest version of itunes and it did not help.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Apr 15, 2012
If I download the newest version of iTunes to my Mac will I lose everything on iTunes from my version i have now
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Apr 4, 2012
I'm having trouble upgrading to iTunes 10.6.1. Earlier today, I opened iTunes, and received an error message that "iTunes Library.itl cannot be read because it was created by a newer version of iTunes." Still not sure why this happened. I followed a workaround I found by essentially renaming a previous iTunes library. Now, I open iTunes, and when I click on "software update," it is indicated that I can update to 10.6.1. However, this takes me to the main Mac Software Update program, but unfortunately I'm told that there are no updates for my computer. The "current version" I am using is iTunes 10.5.1. how I can actually upgrade to 10.6.1?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 21, 2009
I have an old G4 running osx 10.4. Tried to upgrade so my ipod would be compatible and ended up locking out my old version. I need something above 4.9, are any ones available for 10.4 above this??
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Mar 31, 2012
How can I find out what version of iTunes I have?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Jun 1, 2012
Is there a download of iTunes that will work on my Mac os 10.411?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
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Apr 29, 2012
re-downloaded movies from purchased section, but when tring to play movie recieve error message "This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes." and the Artwork is missing?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.1), 2.5 Ghz i5
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Feb 25, 2009
If I purchase a movie on iTunes, it loads into my movie section of iTunes and I can load it onto my iphone. Now Since I own the movie, can I move the movie to my wife's version of itunes (residing on a difference computer) so she can load it and watch it on her iphone? the only work around is see for this it to buy the DVD at a store, and use something like DVD-to-iPhone to make a copy.
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Mar 9, 2012
10.6 has a bug that causes it to send all the TV Show Seasons to the AppleTV in Reverse Added to Library Date Order.Makes finding the right Show/Season very difficult with over 880 TVShow Seasons in the Library.Need to restore iTunes to previous version.
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Mac OS X (10.7), IMacs, iPads, iPhones, TC, AEs, ATV
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Mar 23, 2012
I recently updated to the latest version of iTunes and since having done this, it continually crashes and will not open.
Everytime I attempt to open it it says iTunes has quit unexpedadly and asks to send the following report extract to apple, which I have done.
Process: iTunes [202]
Path: /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier: com.apple.iTunes
[Code]....
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 29, 2012
Our iTunes will not open. It reads that we need the English version?If I download a new iTunes will I lose everything we have?
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AppleTV 2
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