[iTunes] Large Library, Slow iTunes

[Kirk McElhearn]

On May 18, 2006, at 3:31 AM, Steve wrote:

> 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?

No, none of them would.

Do you have a lot of smart playlists? They will slow down launch  
time, but not much else. I've never heard of any real slowdowns with  
truly big libraries, but I've got an article coming up in the new  
Macworld about managing music in large libraries (using external  
disks for part of the music, for example...).


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