ITunes freezing Macbook

I have my music stored on an external HD. I have no problem copying it over from the external to my Macbook. What's confusing me is when I reopen my iTunes and it starts to analyze for gapless playback information, iTunes freezes my entire computer to the point where I have to do a hard shutdown. I recently reinstalled Mac OSX and had my iPhone replaced. I don't know if that means anything, but I'm just baffled. Thanks in advance.

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ITunes freezes MacBook Pro

Recently, my MacBook Pro (early 2010) started locking up to where only the mouse moves, but nothing else works. The culprit seems to be iTunes, as the freezes tend to occur after I launch iTunes (although not the first launch - more on this). After several hours of normal operation, popping into iTunes freezes things up. I have found that by hard rebooting into safe mode, launching iTunes there and allowing it to load normally, then rebooting in "normal" mode lets things work for several hours. Could it be something with my library? It's on my local drive. I ask about the library because in safe mode, that's always the first thing I see when launching iTunes, a dialog saying the library is loading.
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Itunes freezes macbook pro 2011

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Hello,
eventually iTunes collides with another application, a installed add on or a corrupted iTunes database.
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On left, unfold "files" -->> ~library/logs/"
Click on "Crash Reporter"
Last crashes will show up on left. Click on the first in list depending to iTunes
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Post here.
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Corrupted iTunes Freezes Macbook Air!

This seems weird but every time I click on iTunes now, the screen freezes and I can not move the mouse or do a Force Quit. The only option is to hit the power button.
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For the third time now my MacBook Pro has frozen while using iTunes - downloading app updates. I can't reboot the computer. I am having to restore the computer using a Time Machine backup.
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ITunes freezes on my macbook pro when i sync my iphone

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I've been following tons of threads to get an answer - can you help?
Out of nowhere, my iPhone can't sync with iTunes - whenever I plug in my iPhone, iTunes freezes, and I get the rainbow beachball. After a bit, I get a message that my computer is set not to allow synching -- do I want to allow synching? I select yes, and then I'm told this isn't allowed. When I select override, it's still not allowed.
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Hi there,
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.
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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.
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It's done it since the very first moment I had it, and i just recieved it from Apple 3 days ago.
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Itune freezes when i connect iphone on macbook pro

every time iTunes freeze when i connect iphone or iPad on my MacBook Pro
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SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
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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.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
☞ Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

Since new MacBook Pro: iTunes freeze during iPhone sync

Hello
I know that there are already a lot of discussions going on about these but nothing works for me.
MacBook Pro mid 2012:
MacOS 10.8.5 ---> new clean install
iTunes 11.1.1 ---> new clean install
iPhone 3Gs:
iOS 6.1.3 ---> new clean install
The problem:
The problem started after a clean Mountain Lion install on a new MacBook Pro.
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iTunes freeze during iPhone sync for the first time in many years whitout problems.
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# and so on, and so on
All the rest is working like a beauty!
Please help, getting down and losing al lot of time.
Regards

It have taken me all day but it's solved!
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Once i have synced my iPhone on the old MacBook Pro again, and iBook app was synced complete, this problem was fixed.
Regards

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