Anyone else seeing iTunes 11.1 freeze after cmd-L?

I have the freezing issue as well; however, mine happens when I stream a movie/tv show to my appletv and has happened a few time when i've updated iTunes Match.

Yup - exactly the same behavior for me. It also freezes if I try to select "Next" or "Previous" in the track Get Info pane.

The freezing with Command-L / Go to Current Song issue is also discussed in this thread.

I wonder how many weeks it's going to take me to STOP using that command? I've had to force quit so many times in the past few days.

RCobbe wrote:

I just updated to MacOS 10.8.5 and iTunes 11.1, and I'm seeing some really irritating behavior from iTunes.

To reproduce:

1. Start playing a playlist in the library
2. While iTunes is playing, hit command-L to jump to the currently playing song.

At this point, the iTunes UI completely freezes. It continues playing the current track, but it completely stops at that point. The iTunes window itself is completely unresponsive -- spinning beachball and everything -- and I have to force-quit the application.

I've been able to reproduce this very consistently this evening. The last time it froze, I got the crash-reporter dialog box, which I filled out and submitted, so hopefully someone at Apple will look into this soon.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Yes, this is a real problem. Apple's really broken iTunes with 11.1. The "Next" and "Previous" commands within "Get info" work for me at the "Music" level, but do not work when I am down inside playlists. Spinning beach ball and then I have to Force-quit. Command-L is dead for me too and I have to Force-quit. Makes you wonder about the level of testing that is carried out prior to release. Both of these seem to be related to playlists and their heierarchic nature. I hope it's an easy bug to fix and the next version addresses these issues.

For what it's worth, the problem does not happen on my system, unless I'm misunderstanding your scenario. Command-L jumps to the currently-playing track without any iff effect. The "Next" and "Previous" commands as mentioned by others also work without problem for me. So this is not a universal problem, at any rate.

Regards.

Same problem. Can't use next or previous in Get Info screen. Itunes hangs and I have to Force Quit.

Thanks varjak paw - that is useful to know. Do you mind my asking what your system is? Mine is a late 2009 iMac, and I'm having permanent hangs on Command-L and the Next / Pervious commands.

I would be curious to know if you were trying this within the Music library or down in a playlist that you created. The Next and Previous functions work when I am in the Music library, but not when I do this for tracks within a playlist. Command-L does not seem to work at all for me. Thanks. BTW, I am running OS 10.6.8 on a 2009 or 2010 Mac mini.

Good question yellowsubmariner: the behavior on my system is exactly the same as what you report here.

• If I'm in the Music library (i.e. the big collection of all music, that iTunes automatically makes): Command-L and the Next/Previous functions work fine.
• If I'm in a playlist: Command-L and the Next/Previous functions freeze the system.

I hadn't noticed that they work in the Music library, I guess because I never use that view!

Lost in Asia wrote:

Thanks varjak paw - that is useful to know. Do you mind my asking what your system is? Mine is a late 2009 iMac, and I'm having permanent hangs on Command-L and the Next / Pervious commands.

Late 2012 27' iMac with the 3.4GHz i7 processor running the latest version of OS X. Anyone with this problem might try rebuilding their iTunes library to see if that makes any difference:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451

Regards.

I'm in exactly the same boat-- Command L fails in playlists (freezees iTunes, must Force Quit it) but works in the global music collection. Frustrating!

yellowsubmariner wrote:

I would be curious to know if you were trying this within the Music library or down in a playlist that you created. The Next and Previous functions work when I am in the Music library, but not when I do this for tracks within a playlist. Command-L does not seem to work at all for me. Thanks. BTW, I am running OS 10.6.8 on a 2009 or 2010 Mac mini.

It works for me in all places; the Songs, a playlist created manually, and Smart Playlists.

Regards.

What OS and what build version of iTunes do you have?

Mine is Mac OS X 10.8.5, iTunes 11.1 (126) 64-bit.

Tal Rotbart wrote:

What OS and what build version of iTunes do you have?

Mine is Mac OS X 10.8.5, iTunes 11.1 (126) 64-bit.

Same here.