Is it iTunes creating beach balls?

Ever since I upgraded to iTunes 10, I have been having lots of spinning Beach Balls with various applications that I never had problems with before. I always have iTunes open. Also, for the first time, I get skips in the audio. I noticed yesterday that a video podcast paused in the audio - but not in the video.
I haven't selected Ping and don't have any intention to do so. I just use old iTunes capabilities.

I never checked to change the OS: in this web page. It is up to date. So that other thread still needs an answer.
This thread may be a problem with JewelCase, an add on to iTunes which displays lyrics on my Mac. At least that aborted (I sent Apple & JewelCase the abort). So I haven't run JewelCase for a couple of days and haven't had that problem)

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I haven't seen this anywhere else on the net yet:
I'm having a problem with CPU hog when updating podcasts. iTunes has no problem when I just run the program (offline or if I don't have it automatically update podcasts). But once I set it to update or hit refresh I'm sunk.
Before the update (which I could of sworn I updated once before, but it just asked me to update again & it popped up in software update...) I never had a problem. Now iTunes spinning beach balls me every time.
All other apps act normally & no system slow down. Just iTunes.
HOWEVER, when looking in the Activity Monitor it actually says that iTunes is using 102% of my CPU! How can that be???
I've repaired permissions, trashed preferences, and reinstalled the program. No change.
Any ideas? Thanks!!
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Did some more testing & it appears that it only happens when I update video podcasts. Audio podcasts update without stalling iTunes.

Sync causes iTunes spinning beach ball.

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When I sync any of out ipod/iphones iTunes hangs with the spinning beach ball and I get an error message that says: "Can not find file....". I have to force quit iTunes.
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Ever since I upgraded to Final Cut Pro studio from Final Cut Pro Production suite I have noticed an inordinate amount of rotating beach balls and the computer locking up. The previous Final Cut Pro bundle created few beach ball and locking up situations. What could be causing this? I do have the universal Final Cut Studio package. Is this the problem? Do I need to update anything to correct this? Currently, I have two G5 computers, a dual 2.5 and a quad core 2.5. These should be screaming machines that roar. I don't find it that way, yet.
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Itunes is frozen and the spinning beach ball stays on. i can force quite ok but on opening again it does the same thing. HELP

I have the Mac os 10.6.3. Its been great but the last 4 days iTunes has frozen up. On opening iTunes spinning beach ball starts up and the only way to close iTunes is to force quite. I have nothing plugged into iTunes and i have scand iTunes with mackeeper but nothing. I then uninstalled iTunes and started fresh//./././.// NO GOOD, keeps doing the same thing. HELP

Maybe you should update your 10.6.3 to 10.6.8
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
Update iTunes 10.5.2
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1426

ITunes beach balls when I buy a movie

I'm running OS X 10.6.8 with iTunes 10.6.1(7). When I click on "Buy HD Movie" (Blade Runner Final Cut) with 1080p or 720p enabled, iTunes simply beach balls. I've given it about 20 minutes and it continues to beach ball.
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No.
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I recently upgraded my iMac G5 to 10.5.5 and iTunes 8. When the first time I synced my iPod Classic after the upgrade, it erased everything on my iPod. Now when I start-up iTunes it works fine, however as soon as I connect my iPod I get the spinning beach ball and iTunes freezes. Sometimes if I leave it connected long enough (at least 15 minutes), it's recognized by iTunes and iTunes asks me to restore the iPod. I have done that, but once the restore is complete iTunes still does not recognize my iPod.
In order to get out of iTunes I need to force quit it. A couple of other things to note. My iMac recognizes and mounts my iPod without any problems, as does Disk Utility. I have performed multiple resets of my iPod, repaired permissions, reset the PRAM and even tried reinstalling iTunes 8.
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Ali Y.,
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This would be useful in identifying if the issue is with the iPod itself, or maybe file in your original user account that needs to be recreated.
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ITunes 8 - Loads Slow and Beach Balls

Ever since I started using iTunes 8 it loads real slow and beach balls as I go through my cover art. Anyone else have this issue?? I never had this problem with any other iTunes versions before.
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Try deleting the iTunes preference file. Quit iTunes. Locate this file: com.apple.iTunes.plist
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My iTunes 10.0.1 (22) has become so slow with almost every move I make (selecting a song, play/stop, updating info, etc) which results in about a 5-10 second beach ball. I noticed my standard Real Mem usage is running between 600MB-900MB with CPU spiking over 90% with every move. I've reinstalled OSX (10.6.4), iTunes, rebuilt my Library via Consolidation but same. Now my standard Library is large (~170,000 songs stored all on a firewire 2TB drive - which I know is not the norm. But as an experiment I set up a new user built a new library local, added about 5,000 songs and similar results. Also to playback any video via iTunes is almost unusable as it stops and stutters all the way.
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HI Bob...
But as an experiment I set up a new user built a new library local, added about 5,000 songs and similar results.
Since you are experiencing problems in more then one user account, follow the instructions here under: Try Disk Utility Check the startup disk for errors just in case.
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In another post here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12407680#12407680
I see "radioshift*...
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Carolyn

Spinning Beach Ball normal when syncing with itunes?

Just wondering if this is something that always happens to everyone - when syncing my iphone to itunes it will always stall for a few seconds and the spinning beach ball appears even though im using a brand new Macbook Air.
Is it normal? Will it always happen no matter what?
Thanks

Hi,
Since you haven't had your MBAir for long, make sure the system software is up to date.
Click the Apple () menu (top left in your screen) Software Update ...
And repair permissions.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done.
If you see any warnings re: SUID messages, they can be safely ignored, information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US 
Restart the MBAir and restart your iPhone and try syncing to iTunes. Make sure the iPhone battery is charged to 100% before syncing regardless of whether or not it's connected to your MBAir.
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3G no longer shows up on desktop, spinning beach ball on iTunes launch

After playing with my new 3G all day, which included several successful syncs with iTunes, the iPhone no longer shows up on the desktop. iTunes launches automatically but just sits there with the spinning beach ball. Have to Force Quit. The iPhone also no longer displays Sync In Progress. Repaired Permissions, restarted, tried various combinations of plugging/unplugging the iPhone with no success. Any ideas?

I am having this problem too, but I just leave it plugged in and eventually it pops up. It has taken up to 3 minutes.
How long have you given it?

ITunes 7.7 Update and iPod classic = Spinning Beach Ball

Just upgraded to the new iTunes 7.7 (iphone 2.0 and app store support). After, I plugged in my ipod classic and it took almost 5 minutes of the "spinning beach ball" to recognize the ipod. I check and it says my software (1.1.2) is up to date. I ejected and tried it again. Same thing. Once recognized, the ipod classic seems to work fine in iTunes, but still not sure about all options.
Anyone else upgrade iTunes and find the same thing happening?
Note: No option to sync ipod classic games any more. A new "Applications" designation listed in iTunes 7.7 (which has my purchased games listed), but no way to "sync" them or resync them if there were to be an issue or if I wanted to remove the game now and sync it again later...

I'm having the same problem. Last night I wanted to update my iPhone to 2.0 so I had to update iTunes first. When I connect my iPhone, everything works fine (thank God). But quite a different story when I connected my 80 GB classic today. Spinning beachball, iPod icon appears on desktop and in Finder, but iTunes does not show my iPod.
I've tried everything I can think of from resetting my iPod to reinstalling iTunes. Nothing has worked for me.
Is there no fix to this yet? Has anyone solved the problem? Are we suppose to wait for Apple to solve this problem?
Dirk

I moved all my photos to my external drive. I then deleted my iphoto library and re-imported them from the external. Once iphoto created it's folder structure on my external, I deleted mine. Now my computer just "beach balls" all day when I turn it on.

i have a 2006 iMac with a 160 HD and 1GB of ram. I recently got a 2TB external hard drive and transfered all my pictures to that. Once I had a solid folder structure for my photos, I dragged them all to iPhoto. Once iPhoto had created its own folder structure of my photos, I deleted my own folder structure, so that I wouldn't have multiple copies. It all sounded like a great plan, but now my computer just "beach balls" every time I turn it on.

What does this have to do with iPhoto? If you're computer isn't starting up properly I'd be posting on the OS forum for whatever version of the OS you have.
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TD

Why is iTunes freezing (dreaded beach ball!) whenever I've played internet radio for a while, say 20mins or longer?

So, after a period of playing internet radio (various stations), the station stops and I find then that iTunes has frozen with the beach ball spinning.
I'm hoping that someone in the community can provide some advice.
Here's the start of the latest force quit report I've sent to apple:
Date/Time:       2012-10-13 10:49:57 +1100
OS Version:      10.8.2 (Build 12C54)
Architecture:    x86_64
Report Version: 11
Command:         iTunes
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Version:         10.7 (10.7)
Build Version:   1
Project Name:    iTunes
Source Version: 10702101
Parent:          launchd [175]
PID:             9612
Event:           hang
Duration:        1.76s
Steps:           18 (100ms sampling interval)
Hardware model: Macmini4,1
Active cpus:     2
Free pages:      12481 pages (+140)
Pageins:         0 pages
Pageouts:        0 pages
Process:         iTunes [9612]
Path:            /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunes
Architecture:    x86_64
Parent:          launchd [175]
UID:             501
Task size:       51994 pages

Hard to say. It sounds like things are pretty scrambled. What happens is the free space that is left is fragmented into thousands of different places on the drive. So any disc writing activity takes super long and locks things up.
I would recommend posting on the MBP thread http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1149&start=0 This is more of a system rescue problem than an itunes issue.
Good luck, Matt.

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