iTunes 12.3 with el Capitan not responding

While I'm glad this worked for you, for me it is not an option to lose 12 years of playlists that I use professionally for djing. Rolling back to the previous version is pretty painless and solved all of the issues except for home sharing does not work with the new Apple TV 4 with the older version.

Sorry to hear you're having problems w/ home sharing. I reverted to 12.3.0 and use the new Apple TV 4. I can still access all my files from iTunes on the Apple TV 4. So hopefully one of the support threads on dealing w/ home sharing might fix your issue. Not much solace for you, of course, but 12.3.0 and Apple TV 4 and home sharing do work together in some instances, anyway.

Yes I did lose all the playlists in transfer but with iTunes now at original full speed I am still well pleased and have started creating new playlists.

I guess the "missing" playlists are still held in the original file? I tried going back to old version of iTunes but it didn't replace the latest version.

I don't have apple tv. Although there were all the slow response problems on this mac pro, my music files played instantly via the cloud on my old iphone 4S,

Plux Quba: Hey Thanks so much for taking the time and instructing the rest of us. IT WORKED PERFECTLY! I followed the instructions and it worked Im in once again. Your Awesome!

Had this problem - iTunes unresponsive. Seems related to iCloud. Workaround:

1. Turn off WiFi (so that iTunes can't connect to the internet)

2. Open iTunes

3. From the iTunes menu choose "Sign Out"

4. Enable WiFi again

This will enable you to use iTunes until they release a fix.

Cheers,

Mark.

I know I have asked this before. BUT.. does this work around work for the non responsive log in for iTunes, anything to do with

my iTunes account, sign in, update.. none of those work... iTunes plays everything and everything is there, just does not let me sign in..

For those of you who are gun shy about messing with terminal.

Download appzapper then zap itunes 12.3.1. Download itunes 12.3, install and your itunes will work again. Make sure you block the itunes update by going to the app store and right clicking itunes 12.3.1 and then hide it. Also block itunes from updating within itunes itself. These steps will stop itunes from automatically updating. Make sure you are re-installing itunes 12.3. If you do not block itunes update it will automatically update to 12.3.1. Hope this helps.

Also this does not resolve the login issue.

Try this, it might help!!

I have the similar problem after upgrade to El Capitan. My iTunes is not responding, can't play my song and music video.

I re-download latest iTunes 12.3 and its work well as normal.

Good luck!!!

Couldn't agree more! Have been wrestling with a near-unusable iTunes since update to 12.3.1 and have been extremely gun-shy about trying other solutions mentioned. Now, PROBLEM SOLVED! Turned off "automatically check for updates" in iTunes preferences, but have not yet been able to "hide" the iTunes 12.3.1 suggested update in App Store. Right-clicking on it as noted elsewhere only brings up dialogue box allowing me to "Skip This Update" manually. Oh, well - good enough for ME.

To be clear, I'm talking about the method of un-installing iTunes 12.3.1 suggested by Plux Quba on previous page of comments. Was able to delete iTunes from system, download iTunes 12.3 elsewhere and install. Opening the new (old) version of iTunes immediately recognized my library and began to play without issues. Cannot express how relieved I am!

Deleted iTunes 12.3.1 (under El Capitan) using terminal. Then downloaded version 12.3 and installed. Everything back to normal now. Have posted on the Apple problems page to let them know. Hopefully they will have a solution soon as a great deal of time has passed and OS 10.11.2 is already out.

Hey Russell,

I was used your solution of reverting to 12.3 and things seem to be back to normal.

I'll let you know if things fall apart again but no-news will be good news.

Thanks

Glad things seem okay…at least for now.

Maybe someday Apple will actually do something about this problem so we can update iTunes w/out breaking it...

has anyone updated OS X and/or iTunes with the recent updates? Does this fix it?

Unfortunately, the latest updates do not include an iTunes update - it's still 12.3.1.23.