[iTunes] Re: iTunes] Large Library, Slow iTunes

[Raymond P Reedy]

On May 17, 2006, at 22:43 , iSteve <antcheck at comcast.net> wrote:


> From: Steve <antcheck at comcast.net>
> Subject: [iTunes] Large Library, Slow iTunes
> To: "A place to discuss iTunes."
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> About a year ago I purchased a huge CD collection at an estate sale
> and recently finished ripping them all into iTunes.  I have
> approximately 55,000 songs (260 G) and iTunes has grown pretty
> sluggish.  Playback, ripping and burning operations are fine, but
> creating playlists, navigating between lists, adding tags, etc
> frequently yields the beach ball for several seconds and occasional
> hangs where I force quit rather than wait it out.  Launch takes a lot
> longer, but I can understand & live w/that.  I would like to improve
> the performance I'm getting if possible.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has experience managing a large iTunes
> library and if so, can help me out.
>
> My set up: Dual 2.0 G5, 1.5G, 10.4.5, iTunes 6.04 (3).  Most of the
> music (230G) is on an external USB 2 Drive, w/the remainder being on
> my internal drive and all songs are in the same library.
>
> Questions:
> 1) Would more ram make a difference or is the bottleneck elsewhere?
> 2) Would putting songs on a Firewire drive improve performance?
> 3) Would having the music folder/all the songs on the same drive make
> a difference in performance?
>
> Answers and/or any other suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
Try the application "Libra" available here...

<http://homepage.mac.com/sroy/libra>

A simple application that allows you to create, use and manage  
multiple iTunes music libraries.


Ray