ITunes freezes on start up unusable for 5 mins

The infamous spinning beachball shows up when iTunes starts up. I have the latest version of iTunes and I don't have a clue on what could be causing the issue.

The same thing was happening to me. First I thought my library was to blame (13300 + songs, a few movies and videos, 150 gigs), and performed all the usual procedures (repair permissions, recreate library) to no avail. Then I downgraded to iTunes 9.2.1 and voi-lá, it worked, no more spinning wheel.
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ITunes Freezes at Start Up

I start iTunes. iTunes Match begins, Podcast downloads begin and within 30 seconds I've got the spinning beach ball. Force Quit. Start the process all over again. I can't access the store, music, anything. iTunes freezes and I'm done.
This is beyond frustrating. I'm doing everything with the program that I'm supposed to be able to do. I'd be spending money right now in the iTunes store if I could actually access it. Ridiculous.
Thanks for any help or insight.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ 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.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
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.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
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ITunes freezes during start up

I have an iMac bought last year.
2.7 GHz Intel Core 1.5
8GB 1600 MHz DDR3
OS X Version 10.9.4
iTunes 11.3
My iTunes starting freezing during start up about a month ago. As soon as it begins to sync with my iPhone I get the beach ball and have to force quit. I have tried reinstalling it, starting with WiFi off, and other hints from the forums with no success. Any ideas or help is very much appreciated.

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I use Windows Vista, so I can't follow along the steps in the apple support, besides all I found w/ the apple support steps was version 7 or earlier. I can't get email support because they just don't have an "other" to select and nothing of their select a box even comes close to fitting my issue. I'm at a complete loss. Any help is greatly appreciated.

After doing some searching around i found the answer.
I installed the stand alone product of quicktime and this solved my problem.
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I am also experiencing the same problem. I did all the steps....uninstalled, reinstalled, tried the two solutions posted, etc.,....still completely freezes everything when launching itunes.
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Anyone from Apple....please respond to this topic
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ITunes Freezing at Start

Hi There,
as soon as i turn iTunes on it goes straight into "determining gapless playback" and it instantly just freezes up, i have no idea why its doing this?
im on windows 7 and recently upgraded to it but i never had this problem on xp, all the music i transferred came from my xp library aswell.
any ideas?
Thanks in advance

as soon as i turn iTunes on it goes straight into "determining gapless playback" and it instantly just freezes up, i have no idea why its doing this?
That sounds a lot like a library file issue or a content file issue to me. You can find troubleshooting advice on both of those possibilities in the "User-specific troubleshooting" section of the following document:
[iTunes for Windows Vista or Windows 7: Troubleshooting unexpected quits, freezes, or launch issues|http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717]

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I haven't tried this yet as I'm not sure how to do it or whether my back up will ensure that I don't lose my music. Sorry I am not well-versed in these things.
I have received a message just now that syncing is not enabled on this computer - and when I click to enable, it says it isn't possible?

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This is weird. I have iTunes 7.6.1 and OS X 10.5.2.
Whenever I connect an iPod (my wife and I have three between us), iTunes freezes with the spinning beachball for anywhere from 60 to 120 seconds, sometimes longer. At times, when I try to drag a podcast or something over to an iPod, it won't "take"--it's not on the iPod in any of the menus. If I try to do a sync of all podcasts, for example, it freezes completely and even trying to force quit won't do anything.
I've deleted the plist files, but no luck. Any ideas?

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My new ipod classic 160 gb powered off and won't turn back on. if i plug in to computer, itunes will not open. if i start itunes first then plug in ipod, itunes freezes up. Looking for help. thanks

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I have not heard of a good reason for this to happen or how to fix. 3 days later my screen lights up and says to connect to charger.... so its back "for now". Best music player on the market when it works.

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I often "cut" parts of video clips in iTunes, setting a start and finish time so I don't have to see the rest of the video, while not losing it either.
Most of the time, after I set those times, I want to check if my cuts are set right and go back to the video and look at it with the cuts... Well now I can't!
If I click on a video to watch it immediately, or even in the minutes after I made those changes, the video will open, but stay frozen and kinda skip on the same frame over and over (producing digital audio clipping sounds), and whatever I do, trying to FFW or anything, doesn't do anything.
If I open other videos, do other stuff and come back after 10min, it'll be OK, like nothing ever happened, and my new settings will be taken into account.
I can't believe that with a fast MBP, with a iTunes and OS upgrade, this problem continues!
Am I the only one with this bug?
Is this something that could be done?
THanks.

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Try to reset it by pressing and holding the On/Off Sleep/Wake button and the Home
button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Maybe it help.

ITunes freezes on start up unusable for 5 mins

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