iTunes crashes with library on Windows Home Server

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iTunes crashes with library on Windows Home Server

I upgraded to iTunes 10 on my MacBook Pro (late 2009) and my music library on a Windows Home Server. As soon as I connect to my server, iTunes freezes and I can't do anything except a Force Quit. It never did this with iTunes 9 and it looks like I will be going back to it if possible.

Anyone else running into this issue?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 4, 2010 8:46 PM

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Sep 8, 2010 9:26 AM in response to CeThru1

I deleted my library and created a new one and still have the same problems. Then I created another library and moved some of my music to the MacBook hard drive and I do not have any more problems. My problem still exists: I have a SSD in it that is smaller than my music and video collection so moving everything over is not an option. But as soon as I add something from my WHS, iTunes locks up and crashes.

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Sep 8, 2010 1:04 PM in response to CeThru1

I'm experiencing exact the same problem... every time I connect to my NAS (QNAP 101), where a part of my music is stored, iTunes immediately freezes and has to be forced to quit. This happens on my MBP as well on my older MB (both intel machines).

I'd be more than happy if anybody knows a solution to this problem...

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Sep 8, 2010 1:42 PM in response to spotapski

Did some discussion research and finally found something that helped me:

I had the frozen itunes 10 beachball/Application not responding in Activity Monitor. To solve it I did the following:

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Double click itunes in Activity Monitor
Click on "open files and ports"
I scrolled to the bottom and noticed a song being opened every time it crashed. It happened to be on a network share.

Went to Systems Preference>Network
Changed IPV4 Network from DHCP to OFF
Launched itunes.. Success no freeze!
Removed song from library
quit itunes, relaunched, still ok
enabled network
relaunched itunes, still ok
Re-added song
All is OK now.

Hope it helps someone.....
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Working fine now...

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Sep 18, 2010 5:50 PM in response to spotapski

I love you spotapski.

Thank you for this. That worked perfectly. Some stupid song was corrupted and banged up my iTunes installation. I deleted that POS and now there is no problem.

Perfect, perfect.

Thank you, thank you.

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