Memory Leak on iTunes for Windows

This is not a fix, more like a workaround, but pressing the play button rather than double clicking works for me.

The only way i have been able to get around this is going to the store tab, clicking account, making it validate my credentials, then going back into browse and play music. I've had it work a few times and then later try to play and it pull all the memory again. I think it has something to do with losing authentication somewhere. Hope this temporarily helps some of you.

The first post was posted on September 27th and now I'm posting on October 26th. The issue has still not been resolved. Given that this problem happens with music that isn't downloaded, specifically Apple Music, it really is worth considering other streaming services at this point. I can't imagine having my memory leak every single day and not being annoyed into another streaming service for my desktop. I hope this gets resolved soon!

I have the same bug. When I right-click on a song in a playlist and select "View in Apple Music," if I play a song from the album, iTunes stops working.

iTunes version: 12.10.0.7

Ok, November 7th 2019, same problem here...

The iTunes app in Windows Store release date 04/26/2018 :(

Having the exact same issue on both my home and work windows 10 machines. Happens when going to an apple music album and trying to play a song that isn't downloaded. Freezes and eats ram indefinitely.

I also am having the same issue. It's extremely frustrating. I do not get why iTunes is such a resource hog. It's so slow on Windows 10, its ridiculous. I also frequently return to a frozen iTunes when I get up from my computer and come back a few minutes later, after no interaction whatsoever.

Chalk me up as another. Just took the plunge to Apple Music, and very disappointed that I can use it with iTunes on my PC.

Same symptom as stated above Click a song not in my local library. iTunes freezes, and starts to gobble all the memory on the machine. Only way to stop is to kill with task manager.

Same problem here, RAM usage just goes up until it physically can't anymore while iTunes has to be closed through task manager.

I am having this issue too

Having the EXACT same issue. Currently of my 32gb of available RAM it is using 23.5gb of it. So that's cool, they need to fix this

Have exact the same issue. Posting reply to bring more attention.

Same issue here. Newest version of iTunes, newest version of Win 10.

Good luck getting Apple to acknowledge the issue considering we are second rate citizens running Windows, instead of macOS...

Also having this problem. I basically can't listen to anything that's not directly in my library. Had it open for a couple minutes and it was using 22 of my 32GB of RAM.