iTunes 11.1.3 did not solve "Determining Gapless Playback Information" bug

Will going through this process keep all my playlists/playcounts/ratings intact??

I did as Hiroshi.rio described and it solved the gapless playback problem.

My library is huge so it took a couple hours to chug through and re-load the library.

Playlists were mostly transferred over without a problem, a couple smart lists had to be re-done.

Play counts transferred over fine.

All media had a new 'data added", so that should be known ahead of time.

Also some media attributes, specificially videos needed to be tweeked to replicate the original library, but that's mostly because I have some pretty specific sorting methods.

Another caveat is that all my idevices needed to be re-synced with new library, not just a regular sync.

You can go into your old library to check things out as your getting the new library up and running, press "shift" as you click open itunes and it will allow you to choose the library to open.

Same as Tombellanca, I followed the instructions from Hiroshi.Rio and it worked beautifully. Although I do not have my playlists or ratings, I do have ALL my songs, do NOT have that annoying "Determining Gapless Playback Information" message again and I have a fully functional iTunes AND a computer that does not freeze.

I hope all the people with the same complains can see this thread and resolve their iTunes issues as I did.

@Hiroshi.Rio, man, you rock!

Does not work for Mavericks. There's no option to 'Import Library' under 'Library', just 'Export Library'. Any ideas?

Before you do any of Hiroshi.Rio's advice, if you right click and 'Export' your Music, Podcasts, Playlists, etc. You can then import the data back once you finish with Hiroshi.Rio's tip.

Haven't gotten Hiroshi.Rio's tip to work under Mavericks (read my first post of today).

I would be careful as a lot of the other tips that worked at first soon had the problem again once you've added new songs to your library.

During my own investigations I've found that most, if not all, of the music I've bought on Amazon and imported into iTunes caused the 'Gapless Playback scanning' problem but I'm not sure that's the reason iTunes is wonking out. I took out all my Amazon songs and the number of songs getting rescanned decreased greatly. However, I later created a new iTunes Library after moving my music and other media to a new drive - and wouldn't you know it, the problem started again with a high song count.

So, I have to believe its NOT a media problem but a serious problem with iTunes, one that has gone on far too long. Apple must know by now of the countless customers having this problem but no solution seems to be coming from them even after years of complaints.

It might come down to some smart user creating a hack using Terminal or Actions to get things fixed, at least until Apple makes changes in their code again.

Message was edited by: RobinOC

Fixes the problem.. but what about when you add new music from that point on? Still doesn't address the issue.

Thanks.

Your answer solved my problem, too! But I do have one question. Once the issue is fixed, do I delete those 4 .itdb files from the desktop or do I move them back to their original folder under username/music/itunes? If I delete them, will new ones be recreated?

Ah, thanks!