Is iTunes 7.7 a resource hog

I have noticed a persistent increase in processor usage under iTunes 7.7 On my MacBook Pro, it seems to be running consistently between 6.5 and 6.8 percent processor usage. Nothing heavy but enough to make the computer run noticeably warmer.
Is there any way of troubleshooting this?

I have noticed the same thing. When music is playing in iTunes, my CPU (a PC running WIN XP) fluxuates between 20 and 40% of the CPU (and about 100MB RAM). This problem has only surfaced after updating every week (or at least it seems that often) to the latest iTunes versions. It seems that they are making the program more and more memory intensive and powerful, when I just want to listen to my music with it. Since I can't play any of my purchased music anywhere else on my computer I am completely stuck using it.

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Is there anyway to lower the prioirty of a resource hog?

I am sure you feel better for having a rant, but you haven't provided any information about your system, so no suggestions for help are possible.
I have a 5 year old XP box and iTunes uses 0-2% CPU capacity when laying AAC files. iTunes has always been fairly slow to load but it is faster than Firefox on my system.
You can find old versions of iTunes on FileHippo. The mods don't like us posting the link but it is easy to find.

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I hope you can help me.
I get the following error when trying to connect to the iTunes store.
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Has anyone actually tried this suggestion posted by jeffporfiro's. He seems to be posting in any topic related to iTunes Store connection probs.
Is there any credibility to his suggestion? (below)
<<jeffporfirio wrote:
Solution is as follows:
Goto your C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers
find a file named “hosts”, mine was located in a directory named “etc” under the “drivers” directory, rename the file, to something other than its name (eg. rem-old.host) and done ! >>

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I've about 1100 albums in my library - I wonder if it's doing some sort of maintenance process after closing - and because of the size of the library it's taking this amount of time?
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Last edited by serdotlinecho (2014-01-20 13:45:55)

sbfreak wrote:Have you tried firefox-nightly ? I don't have the same problem even though the newsfeed makes my cpu sometimes go nuts.
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Last edited by serdotlinecho (2014-01-20 13:47:08)

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System resource hog and Windows crashes....

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In order to do anything with iTunes I have to shutdown all but the minimum things running on my PC.
I have taken a snapshot which can be viewed below.
Any help would be deeply apreciated.
http://www.oddstofollow.com/itunes.gif
Windows XP Pro

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