iTunes 12.2 Very Slow On Search etc.

Same problem for me. Track names disappear after altering album info. I have to click on another artist and then return to the album I altered in order to see track names again.

I spoke too soon; the memory leak is still present when switching back to song view, just much slower. After sitting overnight, iTunes had swollen to take up almost all of my 16 GB of RAM. So I switched back to album view, and after several days no memory leak. Definitely some sort of bug in song view, which is unfortunate as this is the most efficient way (in my opinion) to browse your music library. I agree with the other commenters; Apple needs to slow down their software releases or hire more engineers/QA people. This is ridiculous. And don't get me started on all of the interface issues with Apple Music.

It's even worse for me. I have a 400GB music with 1.1TB of video. Since moving to 12.2 my HDD is just reading/writing constantly and killing the whole system. OK, I'm running on a 2008 Mac Pro - not the most recent machine, but up until now it has been a great server and NAS.

I've tried, as suggested, switching to album view and so far it has stopped all the nonsense. But really, Apple, get your act together!

Same problem here with ~400GB of music. Adding album artwork, updating song metadata and almost anything in Song or Artist view is painfully slow. Switching to Album view does significantly help, but as chackett mentioned, it's terrible for actually navigating large libraries.

I've just installed 12.1.1.16 and switched back top song view, so far so good, it's behaving. Will see how it is in the morning...

I had the same problem (opened a similar thread on this). My solution was: getting rid of a couple of thousands of playlists, no more delays afterwards (my library is 390 GB, roughly 50k songs, formerly 5k playlists, now only about 200 playlists left).

Same problem - a large music library (19,481 music files), a powerful Mac (2.3GHZ 8GB and 1TB SSD) but a latency of approx. 9 seconds when adding songs to playlist or when starting playing a tune. Changing to Album view or Artist view did not sort the problem.

Looks like reverting to iTunes 11 will be the answer but what a pain and not looking forward to spending an evening on this. 0/10 for Apple

I'm still having this issue, but as with others, it's alleviated by switching to "album view" when adding or editing. I'm not having the memory leak though. I'm working with nearly 1TB of music on a late 2010, 27" iMac. 12GB of RAM.

Has Apple themselves addressed this anywhere?

Is there any other, similar app for OSX with the same features? I think that's the issue. I can't think of any other player that does half of what iTunes does. Perhaps I'm wrong though, I'd like to be!

All,

Just want to provide a temporary fix. The issue seems to only occur when changing metadata in artist view. If you switch to album view and change the metadata in there then it should go at normal speed.

I was hoping Apple would have fixed this issue with the latest update but guess not. This *****. Album view is terrible for large libraries.

Just realized you posted the solution before I did. This *****. Album view is terrible for large libraries.

Switching to Song View works for editing tags and adding to library

still prefer Artist view for general viewing but this workaround helps for now

Thanks guys

I'm tearing my hair out, called Apple, they've never heard of this problem...can't do anything in my iTunes without long delays, playing music, editing tracks, switching forward to tracks, horrendous, all since the iTunes 12.2 update. I personally have found nothing fixed this, including switching to album view, artist view, nothing...obviously with large libraries song view is absolutely necessary, for editing tracks, finding stuff etc...

It seems from here that large libraries are the ones effected and someone said deleting playlists helps? I will never delete my playlists.

The one thing related to this is when I called, we said up another Admin account, opened iTunes on that side and were able to play, edit a library consisting of just a few tracks...the guy seemed to think that therefore it is something in my software and that proved it works, which also goes to the theory of large libraries and playlists being effected...

Please keep posting about this!

Yes, exactly, that is the most troubling part. It doesn't provide any answers whatsoever but it is ridiculous that they are not seeing this as an endemic problem that needs to be addressed...whatever the problem is, I still don't know. That said, the Apple Care people are not trained professional IT hackers or anything, by any means, they look up the same forums and help lists we do as they are trying to address your problem. The guy I finally talked to was a "manager" and he seemed stumped, he had never heard of anything like this, etc. He is going to get back to me after the internal diagnostics he did are reviewed but he made me nervous when he said that the next thing would be something that might erase my playlists etc, something I want no part of, even though I've back up everything carefully.

I did disable Apple Music and the same problems persist.

Of course, Apple probably did all this on purpose, as I think had been addressed somewhere wanting to force people to buy and download THEIR music and to use the iCloud for everything, rather than import cds or completely legal bootleg music files, which is what I do mainly. So with that assumption, of course they would ignore the problem...they don't care about music lovers with 50,000 music files who don't buy much music from Apple, but rather the idiots with barely any music but who buy all of it...that's the most likely scenario here.

Still hoping something can be fixed though and yes I too was hopeful that an update would repair it but not shocked when it didn't, any now, I don't think we can have any hope in updates...

I was experiencing similar issues and finally resolved myself to downgrade iTunes. I found details on this site on how to delete itunes on www.OSX - osxdaily.com/2012/02/06/delete-itunes-mac-os-x/. After deleting and installing itunes 12.0.1 (https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/iTunes12/031-08057.20141016.NewRe/iTunes12.01. dmg) I got an error that i needed to upgrade back to 12.2 since my library was not compatible (created in a more recent version). So I essentially gave up and re-installed 12.2. However, much to my surpise, the performance issues I was having have completely gone away upon re-install. So wondering if something went wrong in the original upgrade and upon cleaning things out the issue was resolved. The good news is I didn't have to re-load my library and I retained all of my playlists. Still not liking the 12 interface but at least I can play and add files.