ITunes freezes when adding artwork

every so often when I'm adding albumart to iTunes my cursor freezes on the box in the bottom right corner, with no easy way to get it unstuck  (looks like this - http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg155/Mo-Dilla/frozen.png). I have to quit/restart in order to fix it. Please help this glitch is making it very frustrating to update my music.

I thought this was a problem until today. I added artwork to a mp4 file and it froze as expected. Rather than ending the process with a force quit, I browsed a web site. In about 4 minutes, the artwork was added and itunes was no longer froze. I don't know why it happens, but I suggest that you leave itunes alone for 10 minutes or so and see if the artwork gets added eventually. This may work differently on a mac than on windows, but hopefully not.

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