iTunes Crashes when Ripping

I hope somebody from Apple takes note... It seems to be a Dual Core issue with Windows

Open iTunes...
CTL-ALT-DEL to open the System Task Manager..
Go to the Processes tab.... Find iTunes.exe and right click on it..
Select Set Affinity and uncheck either processor 0 or 1... and click "OK"

You have to do this every time you start iTunes, but this fixed the problem on my Dual Core Athlon x2... Good luck.

Yep...same issue with my dual core Intel CPU . What a pain!!!

I am having this problem on my dual-core athlon, and it's a serious pain. As a software developer who deals with multi-processor issues for a living, I'm disappointed in Apple -- this is a bug, and setting the affinity every time is a hack (and not always practicable). Lots of software is able to avoid soiling itself and crashing systems (I just had a BSOD, so I'm testy at the moment -- just playing music, though Itunes thought [incorrectly] that a music CD had been inserted).

Is there any word from Apple about an actual fix?

An acceptable alternative (though technically still a hack and a kludge) would be a way of automatically setting the processor affinity every time Itunes runs. This would be a huge help.

Thanks,
JG

dual core athlon Windows XP Pro

dual core athlon Windows XP Pro

Film Mixer!!
You have saved my life!
Since Christmas Day I have been loading my 500 or so CDs onto iTunes for my new ipod and I got the dreaded message that Itunes was closing down etc etc. This happened 2, 3 or more times per CD and it has taken me about 9 days to load 30 CDs. I looked through all the forums, sent messages to Microsoft but then saw your fix and BINGO it is fixed. Thanks so much. Even if I have to do the fix each time I open Itunes it is a very small price to pay - I was just about to throw the PC out of the window.
Thanks again

KFD

Athlon 4800+ Dual Core Windows XP

I detailed a semi-permanent fix for this ages ago. See here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1170884#1170884

Search that thread for "imagecfg" for a permanent fix. It is a program that will alter the iTunes.exe file to be uni-processor only. This fixes all the dual core issues.

Thanks!

imagecfg worked for me after some thrashing. It turns out I needed to run it with a full path (i.e. "c:\windows\system32\imagecfg.exe", which I presume is because there is another version of the program on my system (which did not work).

JG

dual core athlon Windows XP Pro