iTunes 7 & large library - slow loading
After upgrading to iTunes 7 it takes for ever to launch iTunes and now I get a progress bar that says loading iTunes Library that I didn't get under iTunes 6, I have about 30,000 songs in my library so I imagine it is only a issue with large libraries doe any one else have this issue?...
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itunes 6 ran the visualiser on my g4 mac mini at an average of about 60 fps. itunes 7 is managing about 7 fps. Thats not a typo - *seven* fps. Interestingly, when I turn off openGL accerelation the FPS increases to about 18
I guess you're on a mac, try this - when the visualizer is running pull down one of the application menu's, on windows this kills the visualizer to about 0.5 frames per second.
I have around 7500 songs in my lib.
iTunes 7 is WAY faster than the previous version was for me.
Starting up is faster, even the visualiser is a lot faster...!
I have about 30,000 songs in my library
how do you have 30,000 songs!?!?!?!?!?! i only have 1500.....
how do you have 30,000 songs!?!?!?!?!?! i only have 1500.....
I've got allot of CD's I don't even keep all my music in the main library I have another 200GB of classical, orchestra, big-band etc on a different HD that I don't listen to much more. The 30,000 songs is about 160GB.
I'm on a 2.5Ghz G5 with 6GB RAM and the main boot drive with all the iTunes music is a RAID 0 so performance should not be a problem. iTunes 7 is faster after it boots-up, it just takes much longer to boot up...
I think but I'm not sure it is because of iTunes artwork, I never had artwork for all my music before the slow load could be it paring the album art to the songs as apparently the artwork is stored separately from the MP4s
The built-in Cover Flow is nice, but I don't like the sluggish performance.