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Hi,
When I connect iTunes from my window xp laptop to my airport express it plays ok.
However after a track finishes if I have not started playing another one within 10 seconds or so my
iTunes freezes.
Any ideas here would be much appreciated.
Barron1.

YES! I downloaded 3 albums a few hours ago and it has been a trial ever since. First it kept freezing during the whole download process. I kept having to go to support to help me finish. When I finally got it "finished" I realized I was missing MANY songs. So my evening has been spent searching for my songs.... some I can't find, some won't let me listen to them, telling me that I am not authorized, but then at the same time telling me that I am already authorized. And the ones that I have found... well I have had to go individually to each and every one, enter in the name, album and such... and I am still missing songs.
I am so fed up right now that I want them to let me download them all over again. Just start fresh.
This is the dumbest thing. I am so LIVID right now.

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Hi Guys I'm a long time lurker this is the first time requesting help, I have always been able to solve any issues with a search and have not been this stumped before.
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Just want to let you know that you are not alone, I have exactly the same issue.
I found this thread useful:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18185816?ac_cid=142432#18185816
I had smcFanControl installed and after removing it and what it had put in /Library/StartupItems my issue seems to have gone away (for now).
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ITunes 10.3.1 Freezes when I plug in iPhone, various other problems

I've had loads of problems with iTunes, Windows 7, and my iPhone 4 which I got in february (along with the iPod Touchs I've owned in the past.)
Today, my problem is this. Every time I open itunes, it opens fine, and everything is okay. But when I plug in my iPhone 4, things stop working. One of the following things will happen:
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B) iTunes freezes for a second, then asks me to either restore a backup of my iPhone (deleting everything on my iPhone since all the backups seem to be from ages ago), or start as a new iPhone. I click start as a new iPhone, and it tries to make a backup, and for some reason it says that my iPhone 4 (32 gig capacity) only has 4 gigs TOTAL space on it, and then when the backup finally finishes, iTunes will freeze up and I have to close it down.
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If anyone has a fix so that I can sync my iPhone at all (let alone in a fast manner, which I've NEVER been able to do), I'll be a little less inclined to ditch my iPhone ASAP.
Specs:
iPhone 4 32 gig
iTunes 10.3.1
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit
Intel Core i7 CPU Processor 860 @ 2.8 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ Graphics Card
4 gigs RAM
300 gig hard drive (108 gigs space left on it).

I have the same issue. I took it the genius bar and called talked to tier 2 phone support. They have standard thing where you uninstall all apple software in a certain order and then reinstall 64bit itunes. That did nothing (tried it 4 times).
I've gotten two clues so far.
One is that at the store if I plug someone else's iphone 4 in then itunes acts the same way. So it is not the phone. Two is tier 2 phone support told me to try syncing it with a fresh user account (an admin one). I did that and itunes was just fine, it did not freeze.
So there appears to be some conflict with the software, music files, whatever that is on my current user account (also an admin account). I ran virus and malware detectors and found nothing. Now I'm going to try putting my music, movies, apps, etc in the new user account and see if the phone will sync then.
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ITunes 10.6.3.25 is not syncing/freezes every time!

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I'm running iTunes 10.6.3.25 on Windows 7 (32-bit), trying to sync a 32GB iPod Touch. It detects the iPod and 'starts' the sync with the candy cane-striped bar, but then it freezes.
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Hey thanks for replying.
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First I tried the Winsock reset in the Command prompt. Nothing changed.
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