iTunes 11 Freezing and consuming RAM

I'm having the same issue. Everytime I open the new iTunes (and the latest version of it before iTunes 11) it freezes. It's trying to access the iTunes store right away, and I usually don't have the internet on, which i think is the problem. I've turned that feature off and it still has that problem. Presently it is trying to download a podcast that it started before, so I wish I knew how to clear that up. It might solve my problem.

stop using it before it locks up your whole system like it did to me. my macbook is in the shop now all messed up. i hope they can fix it. i'm going to mail my receipt to apple and see if they'll refund the money it costs me to fix this issue.

I was syncing my iphone with about 125 songs, and my computer freezes and beeps 3 times. This has only happened in iTunes 11. It did it twice.

It doesn't do it with under a few songs. But any memory intensive or HD activity, BAM....

There has to be a major memory leak in iTunes 11

Just loaded Itunes 11 on windows 8 x64 and randomly freezes during any heavy operation - ipod sync, itunes is actually unresponsive for few seconds.... upgraded from 10 which worked flawlessly... Though have large collection. Long freeze on startup if any service (bonjour-itune) is blocked firewall, resolved by eventually just allowing all.

I am having the same issues with iTunes.

I leave iTunes open when I'm away from the computer so I can access my media files from my Apple TV (this is way Apple set it up to work).

When I return to my computer the next day, all 12 Gb of available RAM have been gobbled up by It and iTunes is frozen. iTunes needs to get on fixing this memory leak immediately. This new version should never have been pushed out with this serious problem.

I wish I could revert to iTunes 10.

Running mid 2011 iMac i7 with 12 Gb of RAM.

Me too. I'm running OSX Mountain Lion and iTunes 11. It freezes A LOT. I'm listeining to an album right now and 9 seconds before a song ended it just ... stopped. Beach ball, everything, for about 30 seconds, then resumed.

iTunes has always been a rather shoddy piece of software, but this one is kind of ridiculous.

the new update does not fix the memory problem. 10 was much more stable. i have to reboot after using iTunes 11.

hate it.

It's been happening to me as well. I'm running a mid 2011 MBP with Lion, 4GB of RAM. It'll be fine sometimes, but if it's left on for too long, it will just stop mid-song, then the spinning beach ball will appear. Sometimes it'll resume after 10 seconds or so, but sometimes it can freeze the whole computer for even longer. I'm also having a problem with disappearing play counts. I'm not pleased.

It's so unusable that I just use VLC now. I couldn't use iTunes for more than 5 minutes, so I exported the playlist file I wanted to listen to and opened it in VLC. I hope they fix this soon. I'm sure they're losing a lot of money on customers who can't access the iTunes store right now.

It is still happening. If I run iMovie 11 after iTunes 11, it freezes.

If I run iTunes, I do a reboot every time. If not, freeze problems

Something not right about memory usage with iTunes 11

I was experiencing these problems, too, after installing iTunes 11. My iMac is an early '09 model and I'm still using Snow Leopard. After upping the RAM from 2GB to 8GB the problems ALL went away completely. Maybe adding more RAM would help you, as well? I still wish I had never updated from iTunes 10.7, but at least the new version isn't wreaking havoc with my computer anymore.

I have this same problem. I leave iTunes running on my Mac mini to sync wirelessly to my iPhone and iPad. I sometimes log in to check on it, and it is beach balled. I check activity monitor and iTunes is using anywhere from 4-6GB of ram and increasing every few seconds. I have 8GB of physical RAM.

I am forced to force quit and restart iTunes. It's annoying, and just started with iTunes 11.

Same problem here

When I open iTunes 11 sooner or later (likely sooner) iMac freezes

spinning ball and no way to get out except turning iMac off

I am simply not using iTunes anymore and wait for a fix. I hoped that after few months a fix would be ready, but it seems that nothing has been made

As I see this is a quite common problem (if affecting just 1% of users, millions of unsatisfied users stil remain)

So it's ridicolous and ...outrageous that Apple is not taking care of it, at least leaving a feeling that they are taking care

No response, no advice, no aknowledgement ...nothing

it's quite offensive to faithful customer like me who used to sponsor the brand any time I had opportunity

I am really unsatisfied of iTunes and in general of Apple

I had the same problems, a good IT friend said to install this

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1600

and I did, not a lick of problems in a month. It must do something to utilize RAM better. I know what the support docs say, but I Installed it any, it did fix my panic too. So since this, ZERO freezes and PANICS, even with iTunes too.