Import titles to iTunes - Slow

Yes yes yes! The uncheck-recheck solved my problem 😀 Thx muchos!

sort of.

it fixes the problem.... until the next itunes update.

God I wish there was an alternative to itunes.

There are different actions that will appear to fix this problem, because there are different issues that can cause the problem. iTunes apparently gags on file imports for a number of reasons, and under a number of conditions. I've found that I can fix it one way and rebreak it in another.

For this bug alone, which I encounter about a third of the time, I would drop itunes IN A SECOND if there were an alternative music player that offered the same organiziation and playlist features and synced up as well with my iphone.

I just added 121 songs to itunes library. It took approximarely 30 sec per song. I use itunes on windows XP. I hate when I have to add songs and wait and wait. I did notice that itunes only uses about 5% of cpu. I had over 1.6 Gig of free ram. What is Apple doing to resolve this problem. I have tried everything I could think of to speed this up. Get us an answer Apple!!!!

try removing all your TV shows and Movies from the library. this is the only fix that worked for me. 35k songs and no delay on adding new ones. add a dozen mp4's and ..... slow as a wet week.

or buy a boxee box like I did. no transcoding AND 1080p DTS mkv's work a treat

sorry Apple, your the weakest link.

goodbye

I have no movies or tv shows in library, only music, Thanks for the suggestion.

now with iTunes 10.5.3, still the same impossibly slow importing (on Macbook Air with an external SuperDrive). Importing as AIFF is just plain madness, the speed is 0.1x !

This is truly pathetic.

I had the Apple Remote app on my iPad. I deregistered this under Preferences: Devices and this fixed my problem. iTunes 10.6 on Windows 7 x64.

Same here...imports is needlessly and tirelessly slow. I had relocated my iTunes library, told it to consolidate. Lo an behold I didn't realize that iTunes merely moved the media files. Leaving it's own library and configuration files in the old folder.

I deleted the old folder. No chance to recover from recycle bin because it's "too big". So I got screwed. Have to rebuild entire library. Which is a 4 day process. It literally takes about 10 minutes for a single app import. I can see that the files move over fairly quickly. It's not the copying of a large file, it's iTunes internal registering of the files

*sighs*

I swear. I am done with the iPhone. And the main reason I now hate it is iTunes syncing. It's a nightmare. Everytime iTunes glitches, the fix is to have to start all over with my iPhone. I have wasted like 4-6 weeks of my life over the last 4 years dealing with iTunes/iPhone syncing issues.

And I feel Apple just doesn't care. They're a 90% company. If 90% are happy. They don't care about the problems. And that's wrong.

It would seem that there are many users with similar problems as I. Namely unbelievably slow transfer of music from a CD to itunes although this is a recent phenomenom today, it has reached critical proportions where a basic music CD is taking 3 to 4 hours to import into itunes.... has anyone come up with any answers to this issue as I have tried the "Genius" fix with no effect as was the check/uncheck of the "keep itunes Media Folder organised" I am afraid that my life is fast disappearing from me so I hope that someone will come up with a suitable fix for this soon, if you have already please share with us frustrated users...

The version I am running is 10.7.0.21

This thread has not had posts which are after the release of iTunes 11, but there is another -- "Re Is anyone else's iTunes 11 really slow?" which indicates that many, many more people caught this disease for the first time after upgrading to iTunes 11. I have tried the "check/uncheck" solution, the "old search method solution" and removing everything from my library but music. Nothing works, and no one in these forums has other suggestions so far.

I have discussed the matter with Amazon tech support - iTunes non-functionality affects the performance of their download manager (and that of emusic) because both of them now automatically add the downloaded files to iTunes. Amazon tech is aware of this as a widespread problem. So I suppose it will eventually be corrected, but when.

I have just downloaded a substitute player ("Media Monkey") which seems to be the most popular among people with large collections. I think that's where I'm headed. I can't waste hours of my time beta-testing iTunes. After all the interface changes, I wouldn't even like iTunes all that much if it worked perfectly, but I would tolerate it for all the obvious reasons. But not with the present state of affairs. Time to stop being a victim!

Dean

I'm going through this now. Attempting to use my NAS library.

Asking itunes to organise my mess of tracks, it did some, and then just didn't bother with the rest. It refused to manage the rest of them.

I have been trying everything to get it to sort them out. Copy/pasting all the mp3s to the auto add to itunes folder, now going through the recheck rigmarole.

As the thing just freezes and churns, I can't tell what impact I am having.

I am still dealing with this on both a windows and a mac. My other windows machine (that i don't use for itune) imports at fast speeds. I have tried everything in the thread. I just don't get it. Some mp3 it will accept right away. It will also accept itunes formats right away. It just gags on most mp3.

I'm on iTunes 12.2.2 running on an iMac 5K and it took 1 min to import a 5 min song from a CD spinning on an external superdrive. Apple quality is going downhill so fast it's not even funny.