MacBook Pro :: Opening ITunes Library Lags Considerably?
Aug 25, 2009
I've recently noticed that my iTunes is lagging. Here's my situation: I swapped out the stock HDD for a 500GB 5400RPM drive. I have about 98GB free on the drive. Whenever I open iTunes (my library is 235GB), it lags considerably more than it used to. Is this because the size of the library and the speed of the drive? Is there anything I could do to alleviate this problem? I have 2GB of RAM, should I upgrade to 4GB?
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Dec 25, 2010
I went to open my itunes and it said "itunes needs a library to open" then it would only let me choose a library that was dated to last july. I clicked on it and it opened my library from that date. I am really mad because it will now only open that library and im missing almost a thousand songs that have been downloaded since then. Why can i only open a previous library? Are all the songs, movies, and other settings that i have changed in the last 6 months gone?
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Jul 5, 2012
I have a iTunes library in my external firewire 800 hard drive that I have been using on my 2010 Macbook Pro. The songs have never had any issues with lag. However today, the iTunes is playing but the songs lag, and stop sound altogether...yet the play button is on. It jerks back and forth with the sound, so basically I can't play my songs any more. I checked the monitor activity, and everytime the sound swithces off when songs are playing, the read activity spikes up and sometimes the write activity peaks too. Just now, I stopped the music, yet based on the ACtivity monitor the real memory ram on iTunes is a crazy 1 gigabyte, with CPU at 98% activity. I had previously zapped pram on restart thinking its a ram issue but its still having the persistant play/no sound lags. It comes back on after 20 seconds and then stops sound again. I have max upgrade to 8GB of ram on my macbook pro. I usually have iTunes, Firefox, Photoshop and illustrator opened and I still have sufficient ram. Now checking, with just itunes and firefox opened and no songs are playing, I only have 500mb ram left. I can't open Photoshop and Indesign now. Why is my system using so much ram for only 2 apps on which don't usually take up this much of my ram?
Activity Monitor now
800MB ram itunes
400MB ram Firefox
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Dec 9, 2014
This is my error after my recently installed iiTunes 12.0.1.2 quits unexpectedly. This can happen a few seconds to a few minutes after opening itunes library or when refreshing podcasts.
Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â iTunes [5109]
Path:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Identifier:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â com.apple.iTunes
Version:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 12.0.1 (12.0.1.26)
Build Info:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â iTunes-1200012000001026~1
Code Type:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ??? [1]
[code]....
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