Q: iTunes very slow when I add movie artwork or edit data

Well that makes 2 of us, haven't tried adding movies, but editing the data takes for ages.

Can't find a solution anywhere

On a mac pro running itunes 10.6.3 with my data on a g-tech raid via fw800 and having the same problem for about a year now.  Hoping someone has an answer why after I add art to movies and hit "ok" it takes over 60seconds, sometimes several minutes for the dialog box to close.  Thanks.

johnfrombonvicino

I had a similar problem until today.  I have a fairly large library ~40k songs.  If I edited the tags by using the "Get Info" option it would take ~30 sec of beachball before the data was saved.  I hunted online and didn't find many answers and thought it was due to the Itunes 11 update.  Just by chance I did a File > Library > Organise Library > Reorganise Files in iTunes folder.  I am certain this was the defaut I used before upgrading to 11, it still seemed to be checked in preferences/advanced, maybe I did something on the way.  Anyway, after letting it do its thing for 5 minutes, the Get Info editing is instantaneous!!  Woohoo!!

Another option is to turn off Search Entire Library. This seems to restore the speed

Click the downward pointing arrow to the right of the magnifying glass in the search box. Untick the Search Entire Library and performance should be improved.

Ok, I've got the same problem and I've just found a weird way to fix it. However, this only works if you have Apple TV. Use Apple TV to play a movie. Make sure you do it from the Apple TV and not the Mac because you need to be able to use your Mac screen. Once it's playing, start editing your Get Info panels. This is how I do it and it works fine. If I try the normal, standard way (the way it should be - i.e. without playing through Apple TV), it gives me the beach ball of death for about a minute.

Just for the record: Apple TV 3 and bottom line 15" MacBook Pro (retina model).

Crop...

I'm having the same problem (iTunes 11.02!) .

I think this one isn't resolved because it IS rare: I've had iTunes on about 7 different machines (Mac and PC) since it begain (2001). In fact I maintain the same library without issues for over 10 years. Anyway this is the first time it's occurred (in my case it's happened on a pretty recent Mac Laptop). But as you may have discovered, google/bing searches for similar problems yeild VERY few results.

A guy at the Apple store was able to temporarily fix by doing some low level cache removal, that may give a glimpse to the reason, but is not a permanent fix.

I'm going to try a few things will report back if I have any luck**.

***If anyone else want to give it a try: Before starting bookmark the following: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1391 this describes the location and purpose of most of the iTunes library files. And, any apple support docs on creating a  new iTunes library... I'm unwilling to try the let iTunes "Keep iTunes Media folder organized " cause I have my own organization method.

Crop,

forgot to mention the workarounds:

1. Get info works as before (instantaneously) while your playing the movie : counterintuitive but does the trick assuming your movies appear instantly.

2.Of course above won't work on a group of movies. If you want to change info for several at a time, you can do so without the wait... at first, but then you'll need to wait as it's "processing..." not sure if this lag any slower than earlier versions.

HTH, xandra

caveat: my tests are on a Mac but, assuming your not having classic iTunes/PC issue with the "??? SC" folder (sorry can't remembe full name),I'd expect you'll have the same results

Just found a simple workaround.

Start playing the movie

IF you're playing video in the iTunes window

   GetInfo (command I Mac / control I PC)

IF you're playing video in a separate window --

   right-click the movies listing in the main window

(PS you can toggle between these viewing modes by control/right-clicking on a playing movie.

HTH

Thanx a million - this helped - and I was freaking out already