ITunes freezes entire Macbook Pro

I bought a Macbook Pro back in December and it's great. I have consistently been having one particular problem that is irritating me quite a lot. I turn on my computer. I only open iTunes, the only thing running, and I'll start up some music. I go about my day working in photoshop and surfing the net and blah blah listening to music. A song comes on that I don't really like so I got in to iTunes to change it. Well, I go flipping through cover flow in itunes and play a song and suddenly my computer locks up. AH. My mouse is still fully functional and my music is still playing. My "loading" twilry rainbow circle cursor comes up and never goes away. My hot corners don't work. My keyboard won't work. Force quitting doesn't work. I can't do anything except listen to my music and move my mouse around. This has happened a number of times now. I have tried to wait and see if it ever unfreezes(I have sat for about 30 minutes waiting) and it never seems like it will so I am forced to hold down the power button. Now, I switched to Mac because it seemed that nothing ever went wrong with Macs and I wouldn't have to worry about things like this. It's very frustrating to lose files and unsaved work while listening to music. I'm not sure if anyone else has had this problem, but if someone could give me a little insight it would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

I am having the exact same problem. I, however, am running a Black 2.16 GHz, 2G Ram, 160G MacBook with the latest version of Leopard. My MacBook was running perfectly until the iTunes 7.6 update last January. Then I got the same results you all have been mentioning. Since then I have updated iTunes to 7.6.1 hoping for a fix, to no avail.
But a week ago, it all got worse. Last Wednesday, my MacBook froze, and not with iTunes. Since then, I can't use it for longer than a few minutes without getting a complete freeze, where the only way out is a hard restart. Not only that, but sometimes I don't even have iTunes open. When I do, though, it just happens quicker. I've had to do hard restarts up to six times in one sitting, until I gave up. I've fixed permissions, I've tried everything, but nothing. I even tried scanning for viruses. The first time it just froze again. I'm scanning it again as we speak, hoping to find a culprit and fix this once and for all.
In any case... I feel you all's pain. I hope we can find a fix for this soon.

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ITunes freezes my Macbook Pro

Hey everyone. I just purchased a brand new 15" Macbook Pro with a 128GB SSD. My first Mac after 13 years using PCs.
OSX Lion is the current version.
iTunes is also the most current version.
All software is up-to-date.
Every time i open up iTunes, my Macbook begins to freeze. It starts with a small lag of a few seconds, and the longer iTunes is running the longer my Macbook becomes unresponsive. After only about 5 minutes, it gets to the point where nothing will move at all and I am forced to do a hard shutdown.
It's done it since the very first moment I had it, and i just recieved it from Apple 3 days ago.
What's the deal here? I am not overloading it with too many applications, in fact I can run nothing but iTunes and it does the same thing.
What could possibly be the issue?

Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
Right-click or control-click the line and select
Services ▹ Reveal in Finder (or just Reveal)
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Trash. Relaunch the application and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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This problem just started happening for me a couple days ago. Every time I start itunes the pinwheel starts going and doesn't stop. Everything freezes. I can't do anything (force quit, switch spaces, launch a different application, etc) while the pinwheel is going. Even if i leave my computer alone for an hour it will still be going so im forced to do a manual shut down. This happens every time i start itunes regardless of what else I have running.
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Anyone else have this issue. Any ideas on how to fix this? it's driving me crazy, I need my music!
Thanks!

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I have the same issue as you do, this has been going on for quite a while now (2 months) and I have tried everything, including creating a new user - did not work. Perhaps you might have better luck than I did.
I really don't understand how this can just start happening for no reason.
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HT1848 Forgive such a basic question, it's easier than looking it up. I have my iTunes music on macbook pro and have only synced it to one iPod. I want to buy a new iPod and want to know will I be able to sync my music from computer to new iPod at no ch

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Many MacBook Pro users are professional authors, reseachers, teachers, ... and we need to manage large libraries of copy protected digital material (journals, book collections, protected imagery, ...) , which we directly reference and include (with citations) in our writing and analyses.
Laptops and desktops are the only viable options in terms of screen real estate (multiple monitors needed), application availability (image analytics, serious statistics, real 2D and 3D modeling, ...) high speed storage attachment (the cloud can't handle many needs) and processing horse power. iPads and iPhones are a few generations away from being adequate for many such activities, which Apple had traditionally supported.
This particular oversight by the folks behind the Apple iTunes bookstore business, stands in stark contrast to what used to be our vision of the premier professional creative platfom. I find this deeply dissappointing and inconsiderate of our long term investment in apple technologies.
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