Determining audio volume taking a long time

Right here!

I just installed 9, and after 1/2 hour, it's only 15 of 22,891 --

What gives???!!!

itunes>preferences>playback>uncheck sound check

Does this iTunes behavior do anything to deteriorate the quality of the imported audio file? I use the highest quality .AIFF files for playback on my iPod.

I've turned off Sound Check in preferences and it still insists on checking the volume for each imported track.

What gives?

I spent 45 minutes on phone with Apple support to help them to figure out what causes iTunes 9 to say it is "Determining Audio Volume", and even after he consulted with others there he still had no idea why it was doing that. (I did not have the "Sound Check" option on, so that wasn't the cause. We verified that setting in both iTunes and on my iPhone.)

The files it is doing this with are only the files on the iPhone itself.

Has anyone at Apple cared about this problem? I see that someone has talked to Tech support without any positive result. Is there a library preference for this kind of thing. I only added 200 new songs and it took 40 minutes to adjust volume without that option checked. I can not restart iTunes without it wanting to check the volumes again. I will have to use another app for listening to music and this totally changed my mind about getting an iPhone. I love music, but I hate this crap with iTunes.

Another dissastisfied customer here!! I wonder how many others don't write in? If anyone in the orchard is listening would they please acknowledge this VERY frustrating issue?

Thanks friends!

I had the same problem, but I think I've found a cure.

Even though Sound Check was disabled in preferences, iTunes would insist on Determining Audio Volume everytime it was launched. But there is also a 'Sound Check' preference in the Burn CD dialogue.

To turn it off you need to select a playlist, hit the Burn Disc button (bottom left) select Audio CD as the disc format and un-check 'Use Sound check'

Then you must hit the 'Burn' button (if you don't it will not remember the new settings) You can then cancel the burn by clicking the X in the itunes player window.

This has cured the problem for me

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

This solution worked. I've been agonizing for months. It is silly that Apple would put out a product update that frustrates the user so much and then not know how easy it is to solve it. Not very Apple like.

Any way a brilliant fix.

Darrell

Hello. I am also very frustrated with this problem. I'm trying to load some audiobooks. It is still trying to determine the volume of one chapter of this specific book. I can't even delete this chapter. In fact, I can't even try your solution because iTunes just freezes completely as soon as I hit a key.

Hello. I am also very frustrated with this problem. I'm trying to load some audiobooks. It is still trying to determine the volume of one chapter of this specific book. I can't even delete this chapter. In fact, I can't even try your solution because iTunes just freezes completely as soon as I hit a key.

Is there some way that I can reload iTunes to get it working again? Re-booting just doesn't help. Neither does multiple re-bootings. I'm almost at an actual booting point.