iTunes 7 playback choppy
I hope someone can help me. I recently upgraded to the new iTunes 7 and i love all the cool features but i am having trouble with the playback. The playback is very choppy almost as if the computer cannot keep up.
When i originally upgraded i didn't do the quicktime upgrade because i didn't want to restart. I thought that may be the problem so i upgraded but it didn't help.
I do not have a lot running. All i had was Adium, Thunderbird and Safari (and obviously iTunes) so i tried closing all of them but that didn't help either. Using MenuMeters, i can see that the CPU usage is consistently below 50% so that shouldn't be a problem.
I by no means have the latest computer but it isn't exactly underpowered. it is the 12" PowerBook 1Ghz with 768 ram. I never had a problem with previous versions of itunes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
-Justin
When i originally upgraded i didn't do the quicktime upgrade because i didn't want to restart. I thought that may be the problem so i upgraded but it didn't help.
I do not have a lot running. All i had was Adium, Thunderbird and Safari (and obviously iTunes) so i tried closing all of them but that didn't help either. Using MenuMeters, i can see that the CPU usage is consistently below 50% so that shouldn't be a problem.
I by no means have the latest computer but it isn't exactly underpowered. it is the 12" PowerBook 1Ghz with 768 ram. I never had a problem with previous versions of itunes.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
-Justin
Comments
I think it has to do with some change in preparation to stream video--
They will probaly put in a patch
I tune6 works a lot better
so how long do you think we will be waiting?
I have no idea, but one thing I just discovered, at least with the PC version of iTunes 7, is that Coverflow chews up enormous amounts of RAM if you've got a large collection of music. I can easily see how playback could get choppy if iTunes ends of eating up lots of RAM and causes your PC to spend too much time page swapping virtual memory.
As for me, I'm just forging ahead, bugs and all. I'm fixing up my whole collection to take advantage of gapless playback and the new "Album Artist" field, so there will be no going back for me.
I'll have to see if Coverflow works better on my Mac when I get back home, or if I should avoid using it there for now too.
(btw, I'm on a dual 2GHz G5 with 3 GB RAM, so it should play fine, but it doesn't. Also scrolling and basic navigation is slow and iTunes constantly uses about 20% CPU when idle. And this is after updating the itunes library and what else it automatically did upon upgrading)
It doesn't exist using itunes 6 from my wife's computer---so..............
It must be related to the new itunes---
Loving the new CoverFlow feature!
I've got over 20,000 songs in the collection, but that did not cause any noticeable slowdowns with version 6.x
I think it's a problem in the quicktime update, though??I downloaded the smallest Apocalypto HD trailer and it too was unwatchable. This is on a 1.67 PB w/ 1.5 GB ram. Before the update I could watch small HD movies with hardly any lag.
I would run it on my mac but it's a laptop and I put it through enough hell since it's my main work machine. It kinda sucks that 7.0 is like this. Hopefully they fix these problems soon!
p.s> I love the new interface!
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....38205&tstart=0
iTunes analyzed my entire library when I ran it after installation. That caused performance slow downs. Performance returned to normal after it finished whatever it was doing.
p.s> I love the new interface!
Mine also analyzed the library but it was finished when i was having the problems. I hope apple fixes it soon. I really like the new interface but i would rather be able to play my music.