Re: [Apple iPod] New article: iTunes and Large Libraries: Slow, Slow, Slow

On Jan 29, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Rebecca wrote:

> I was just complaining about that last night. I have a large
> library at the moment, I lost all my music in a bizarre deletion (I
> hit delete on accident, lol) and now have tons of duplicates from
> multiple copies because of duplicates on my external hard drive.
> Once I get done there will be under 20 gigs of music I believe but
> as for now it is 149 gigs. Since there are so many files in iTunes
> it drags my computer down while using iTunes. It can take forever
> to get started and working on the files. It uses the most memory
> than any other program and when I'm finished with it, I usually have
> to restart my computer (Windows Xp) to be able to use my computer at
> it's normal speed.

Well, to be fair, there are several variables. It's not the size of
the music files, but simply the number of files. And the speed of your
computer has a big effect as well. My point is that I have one of the
fastest Macs, so it shouldn't be an issue. As for memory, on a Mac, it
doesn't use much.

Kirk
Author of: How to Do Everything with Mac OS X Tiger

http://www.mcelhearn.com/htde.html

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