iTunes freezes MY ENTIRE MAC

This just started happening a while ago and it didn't bother me much until I had just lost a bunch of data due to this problem

Basically, everytime I play a song in iTunes, it might seem to go well after a couple songs, but then at random points that happen very often now, iTunes freezes and I just see the song length stuck at 0:00

The weird part is taht the song actually plays ALL the way through without any problems, but my entire mac is frozen now...

I can only move my mouse, which is useless because the dock, background, iTunes, EVERYTHING is now frozen

The only solution I have is to hold down the power button and do a hard restart

Repairing Disk Permissions doesn't do anything and scanning my Mac says its fine...

So can someone tell me what's wrong?

17" 2.4 GHz MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Apr 29, 2008 1:42 PM

33 replies

BlueX Author

Level 1

82 points

Jun 19, 2008 5:05 PM in response to BlueX

Okay problem started t come back!!!

This time with a twist
Let me run through this to you ONE more time.

So I installed the 10.5.3 update the first day it came out and it seemed to have fixed this problem

BUT NOW, just yesterday I keep having the same exact problem happen

this time it starts out with everything in my background frozen, then slowly later on my mouse freezes along with it

So the entire max is frozen shut

BUT, some shining light of hope at the end because this doesn't last that long

At most, it goes up to maybe 1 or 2 minutes then it snaps right back into regular

I've even had it last maybe 15 seconds of freeze time

The point is, it still keeps freezing!
It's just less serious this time

Looks like the problem is still back...as a ghost or something

BlueX Author

Level 1

82 points

Jun 28, 2008 5:13 PM in response to BlueX

Anyone else still have this odd problem?

I know I marked it as solved, but it's still happening in a way...

Aug 28, 2008 10:02 AM in response to BlueX

I am somewhat relieved and perturbed that iTunes is causing so many problems. This means it's not likely something that I did. For me, iTunes crashes with a "spinning beach ball of death" when I try to synch my iPod Touch. Just not every time, and when it does work, it works after taking a long time to update.

I don't use cover flow (many of you did), but I seem to get the most crashing when iTunes does the "backing up" portion of the iPod synch. There seems to be no way to disable this backing up feature. I hope these problems get fixed quickly!

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iTunes freezes MY ENTIRE MAC