iTunes near Limit?

[Guy Hail]

On Monday, December 9, 2002, at 05:16  PM, iTunesList wrote:

>  Is there a limit to the number of files that iTunes can handle?

Yes, I believe there is, though I don't recall if I read it apple's  
website or another source: 32,000 files, give or take. Itunes has  
associated 'databases' (really XML files), and at that size I'm sure it  
takes time to read and process them.

Oops: found it (I hope this is the entire url):

http://docs.info.apple.com/ 
article.html?artnum=61087&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkbase.info.apple. 
com%2Fcgi- 
bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSaveKCToHomePage&searchMode=Assisted 
&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com&showButton=false&randomValue=100&showSurvey 
=

If that's only part of the url, searching the knowledge base for  
"itunes, slow" will retrieve the document. There are also documents  
explaining how to have two itunes libraries (but it's as simple as make  
two and swap the 'database' files by hand, IIRC).

grh