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Post by fentiger on Oct 11, 2010 20:31:10 GMT
Hi
Just wanted to pick some brains. I have just purchased a mac mini (2 weeks ago) I transferred the library from my 5yo Win XP Pc. The library is in the music folder on my mac, while the music files are on my Linkstation NAS. I learned the hard way that I need to automount the NAS before iTunes starts (why, Windows doesn't need this?)
iTunes is very sluggish. I see the beachball far too often for a 2 week old computer. Very frustrating. It even seems to interfere with keyboard and trackpad performance when I sync my iPhone.
I know iTunes is a bit of a bloater these days, but is it like this for anyone else, or am I missing something? It's almost making me want to go back to the dark side...
(iTunes 9.2.1 & 10.6.4 mac mini 2.4GHz core duo 2Gb ram)
Thanx
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Post by tumnurkoz on Oct 11, 2010 23:40:21 GMT
No, mine seems fine. Do you see any problems in the console logs? or check the activity monitor to see if itunes is the hog, or whether it is just a symptom of another issue (another app may be the memory hog but itunes just tips it over the edge-so to speak!)
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Post by Alex on Oct 13, 2010 6:57:47 GMT
I know iTunes is a bit of a bloater these days, but is it like this for anyone else, or am I missing something? Why do people always say this? It was said on the Gadget show about the new Nano that it came with the 'inconvenience' of using iTunes but I've never had a problem with it being bloated, sluggish, slow or using a lot of resources either on OS X or Windows. I think I might be missing something or people like to just complain about things.
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Post by fentiger on Oct 13, 2010 12:01:30 GMT
I actually ran the activity monitor while iTunes was converting an album ffrom mp3 to AAC and it was using up to 160% of CPU resources. I can't even begin to understand how that's possible. I'll try again and grab a screenshot and post it.
Alex I think iTunes is a bloater a) because it runs so slowly for me (but this might be my set up, hence the post) It seems to take up to two minutes to change the tags/ metadata on an album (including adding artwork) which is far too long and
b) because Apple keeps adding features and it now does too much. It's a media library, music & video player/ social network/ iPod, iPhone, iPad device manager/ internet radio player/ music, video and software retailer/ paylist generator. I could happily do without half of these, or have them separated to improve performance. There was a well argued article on Cult of Mac a few months back on why iTunes needs a radical overhaul.
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Post by wierdostomps on Oct 14, 2010 14:09:57 GMT
I don't have any major problems, but I can't help but agree with Fentiger (welcome btw). Ping is a step too far for me. What was once a slimline music app is now a catch all, video rental, social network, application store with an ugly icon. Whenever I have WiFi access I use Spotify - hardly touch iTunes any more.
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Post by fentiger on Oct 27, 2010 12:31:18 GMT
I think I've sussed the problem. The Buffalo Linkstation share folder was only set up to support Win-doh!s, not Mac. I'm now mounting it using AFP rather than SMB and this has improved things no end. If all else fails, read the manual... as my old Dad taught me. BTW the option you need to tweak was in the the web UI, under shared folders.
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