ITunes Freeze up my iMAC

Having trouble with Snow Leo iTunes, I was having trouble from last 2-3 week, what happen is some time sudden my whole computer just freeze-up \-:
but now I notice it causing because of iTunes, can any one have any idea what mi8 be the problem is?
-ViruSoul
+"Sorry for my bad english, as this is not my primary language."+

have you seen this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2294397&tstart=135 ?

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Some songs will not play properly in iTunes, pausing often and causing the spinning beach ball of death to freeze my iMac for 5 to 10 minutes at a time, sometimes longer. I am also having problems ripping those songs to a CD.
I am trying to decide if I should uninstall iTunes or simply back everything up and do a clean install of Snow Leopard and iTunes.
I’m also wondering if simply getting more RAM would solve my woes. I have 2GB, which worked well for years. I have 4GB coming in the mail.
I have a 2008 iMac. It has about 175GB of free space on its hard drive, about 144 GB in use. With iTunes playing a file and nothing of particular note open, it has just under 1GB of free system memory, or RAM. I have both the latest version of Snow Leopard and iTunes installed. All software is up to date. Except, of course, that I'm not running Lion.
I have a 45GB in music and 54GB in podcasts in my iTunes library.
I have corrected my hard drive’s permissions repeatedly but am unaware of any other maintenance I should be doing on my hard drive.
Here are some observations that may or may not be helpful:
Songs in the same folder are behaving differently, some consistently playing without a problem, others consistently spinning the beach ball. For example, five songs off an album will freeze up my iMac but the album’s other songs do not.
I can, however, duplicate the symptoms with otherwise dependable songs by having more applications open. Nothing major, say Safari, Finder and iTunes. What I don’t get is why some songs would play well and others not when only iTunes is open.
Having a handful of applications open now sometimes prompts the spinning beach ball of death. This never used to happen, hence the RAM coming in the mail.
When I check information on the malfunctioning music files, it shows they contain data, but I start getting the beach ball checking the file’s “sharing & permissions” status in "Get Info."
Interestingly, I recently had to stop backing up my podcasts in Time Machine because some of them were crashing it. My music files, however, have been backing up fine in Time Machine, so far.
Also, when I try to copy my music files onto an external drive or my desk top – in anticipation of reinstalling iTunes -- my iMac cites error 36 and stops the process.
My iMac’s performace problems started to occur before I finally updated to Snow Leopard a few months ago. Indeed, I thought updating would solve them.
I had been regularly updating iTunes, however, I recall reading somewhere that upgrading to Snow Leopard while having an up-to-date iTunes installed might cause problems.
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Hi strings, and welcome to the discussions.
But can you give us any more information?
What are you doing when it happens? What software
are you usually using? Do you have an Apple keyboard
and mouse? When did it first start happening? Does it
"unfreeze" eventually? How much RAM do you have in
your computer? What other devices do you have
connected to the computer, etc etc
The more information you can provide about the
situation the easier it will be to help you. On the
basis of what you have told us so far the problem
could be caused by any of a hundred and one things.
Cheers
Rod
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13-inch, Late 2011
Procesador 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
Memoria 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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