Anyone solve "comp freezes on last imported song" problem?

I've seen a lot of posts stating...
-- importing CD
-- imports fine until the end of the very last song
-- just freezes (not reponding w/ 100% of computer resources) with no error message.
-- (more often than not) just upgraded to 5.x; didn't have problems before.
Has anyone seen a solution? I haven't seen any posts indicating a cause or fix.
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been having the same problem. The compter just freezes at the very end of iporting the last song from CD.
hi Christian!
hmmm. here's a trick from the 4.9 days that might be worth trying:
Andrew Doe, "trouble importing the first song of all my CDs" #15, 06:55am Aug 28, 2005 CDT
any joy with that?
love, b

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My problem is kind of weird. I have a song that was
in a WMV format, I believe, when I was first going to
save it, but I changed it to WAV and MP3. I tried to
import both into iTunes, but to no avail. What I
mean is that I've tried to drag both songs, impoprt
the songs song by song, and import the folder. I get
through the bar at the top, but I don't find the
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