New iTunes (12.2) update keeps crashing on Mac

Same problem (amongst many others that have been listed on the discussion board) since upgrading to new iTunes 12.2. Using a Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina, running OS X (10.10.4).

In your case, I think you may just need to be patient and let it load (might take forever, literally, in my experience) instead of trying to force quit.

Not sure if you're having any of same issues when it does load - mine has unexpectedly crashed on me multiple times without me even doing anything iTunes directly - it'll be playing through an album just fine then suddenly crash.

Other problems include 5-15 min to import/convert/edit about 12 songs (or an album essentially), and cannot do 2 things simultaneously in iTunes without it crashing or hanging (i.e. import songs while skipping a track I'm currently listening to).

Absolutely beyond frustrated with this release so far. Turned off all sharing and cloud features in an attempt to get basic functionality back to normal but no luck.

What helped me: Disabling icloud music library and Apple Music on Mac and iphone > downgrading to 12.1 > syncing with iphone > upgrading to 12.2 > Itunes 12.2 is now usable again, as long as I don't use Apple Music and iCloud Library. There are sooo many bugs and there's the DRM-issue, which I find totally unacceptable.

Can you give a tip in time? 1 hour, 2 hour?

Same here, complained on this forum the other day about it, updated to 12.2.1, still slow as ****. Apple, come on!

Ive used iTunes for 11 years now and the last 2 have been really disappointing. I dont even stream, all my music is bought in physical format, imported & catalogued and right now, something that was so easy and satisfying to do a decade ago has become a pain in the arse!

Wouldnt have happened if Jobs was still here! Your standards really have slipped in recent times!