Album Art Screen Saver

Hi,
I use the above screen saver. At times when I return to my computer and "wake" it out of the screen saver, the screen saver will freeze for a while (varying from a few seconds to a couple of minutes) and only then will close.
Any ideas? it only happens on this saver.
Danbo

The album art that you manually inserted is stored within the song's file, and so is the art you get with a purchased download.
The art which iTunes 7 fetches for you, on the other hand, is not stored within the relevant files, but is instead all kept in a new folder, ~/Music/iTunes/Album Artwork/.
A way you can check this in practice is to transfer a purchased song, or one you've manually added art to, to another computer - the art will go with it. If you transfer a song for which iTunes 7 retrieved the art, the song will transfer without artwork.
The screensaver is part of the OS rather than iTunes and hasn't been updated recently, so is simply unaware of this new art storage location and isn't looking there.

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