Since installing itunes 9, i get a spinning beach ball every couple of seconds/minutes. Sometimes it goes away, but I seem to have to force quit every couple of minutes. I have reinstalled the software twice. Not sure how to fix, as the program is basically unusable now.
I'm getting a lot of hanging since I installed itunes 9 as well. It hangs when I want to update my applications and when I connect to my other computer.
Same problem. I let it do it's thing until it recovers but then soon as I touch anything (like try to play a song), I get the dreaded beach ball again. According to my activity monitor disk activity I have a lot of data being read (50-60MB/sec) and virtually none being written (0-100KB). iTunes also seems to be using about 20% of the system CPU.
Having a similar problem. When I start iTunes 9, it says that is adusting the music for gapless play, and every time, somewhere between 500 and the 4700 songs I have, I get a spinning ball that never goes away no matter how long I wait. I cannot even force quit!!! I have to to a hard restart. I have tried this five times now and I cannot seem to avoid the spinning beach ball...
On my 1-month-old 13" MBP it is becoming unresponsive every 30 seconds or so, all I get is the spinning beach ball. So lame, wanted to sync my iPhone guess I have to wait for a patch now. I hope they get the fix out ASAP.