ITunes hangs after startup

I open itunes, which takes its time opening, then once it is fully open it will hang at between 50-100% CPU usage for at least 15 minutes before I can do anything. I would like to know if there is anything I can to to alleviate this.
This is a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit, the computer has 3gigs of ram, a Dual Core Xeon 3.0ghz processor, and the library is about 260gb and is being shared from a samba share from linux over gigabit. However there are no problems with using the Zune player over the network so it is not a network latency problem.

I did two things which resolved this problem.
1. went to device manager and noted an error on the Apple USB driver.
Fixed by reinstalling it from c:/program files/common files/apple
It took a couple of tries but eventually it resolved.
2. Go into Control Panel / Programs and then right-click on Bonjour and select repair.
After that it worked.

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Testing with three different CDs, I have discovered that my iTunes "hangs" after playing the first two tracks. That is, it will play the first two tracks fine, then appear to play the first two seconds of the second track again and stop. I am also unable to eject the CD or quit the program, instead getting the Spinning Beach Ball of Death, so I must force-quit the program, after which I am able to eject the CD.
I have repaired the disk permissions and verified the disk with no problem in both cases. I have also shut down and restarted a few times between tests, but to no avail. I hope this issue is not an indication of a physical problem with my drive. (I have not tried running Disk Warrior yet, but that may be my next step.) Also, this problem occurred both before and after I upgraded to 10.4.11 so it seems to be unrelated to this OS upgrade, but it may be related to my upgrading to iTunes 7.5. Any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks,
Paul

Yep, that did the trick. Many thanks! In fact, after unchecking Error Correction and successfully playing a CD all the way through, I even rechecked EC and immediately tried playing the same CD, with the same problematic "Track 2 Hanging" result.
Odd that this should be the solution, though. It begs the question as to whether or not EC should ever be checked. I realize that this feature is for importing and not for playing tracks, but it seems tedious to have to remember to check EC when importing and then uncheck it for playing. I guess I'm asking whether or not EC is effective enough to warrant the inconvenience of having to uncheck and recheck and uncheck, etc. Any thoughts on that?

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I tried reinstalling iTunes as my CDs were not showing up in iTunes. The system is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. Now iTunes hangs at startup . . . all I see is the beginning of a translucent window. I've uninstalled, reboot, reinstalled many times.

Bump. Also an update: I found out that iTunes doesn't hang all the time when I tell it to close, only when I have the visualizer going, not in full screen mode. Hope that might help anything.
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ITunes Hangs at Startup & when Idle. Can anyone relate?

I am using iTunes 7.4.2 for Mac. For this entire year — ever since I replaced my dead Jaguar drive and moved my library to a clean install of OS 10.3.9 on a new hard drive, iTunes just won't function properly. All those updates that have been loaded via Software Update have done nothing to fix the issue. Neither has installing a clean copy of the latest QuickTime. The scenario is always the same: I click the icon in the doc, iTunes begins loading the library. It completes the library as per the status bar, and then NOTHING. No application window pops up — just a spinning beach ball and the iTunes application title in the menu bar.
Because of this problem, my only way of using iTunes is to reboot my machine and IMMEDIATELY click the iTunes icon in the doc before I touch anything else. If I use any other app before I launch iTunes, iTunes will not complete startup.
Once iTunes hangs, the computer will not even reboot unless I force-quit the stalled iTunes app, which is "not responding."
Oh, and even when I do get the iTunes app to come up correctly, if I let it go idle or switch to another app for more than, say, five minutes or so, upon return to my desk or upon switching back from whatever application I have subsequently loaded, I am guaranteed to find iTunes frozen with nothing but a spinning beach ball. The library is still visible in the application window, but there is no means to access it — without force-quitting and rebooting my Mac AGAIN.
Basically, to use iTunes at all, I have to reboot my machine, launch it right away, finish what I am doing in iTunes and then close it down immediately so that it will not have the opportunity to hang in the background.
I do not receive any error message or dialog by which to even Google the problem. Meanwhile, even checking the Consule presents a problem because the last iTunes crash entry is dated back in March '07! Is it possible that the OS doesn't even realize the application is crashing — or is there another place I should be looking for clues?
The one iTunes crash log entry I have says that thread 9 has crashed. At the top, it also reads:
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNINVALIDADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x096b2000
So far I've verified/repaired disk permissions many, many times (from the boot CD). I also attempted to download from Apple a fresh copy of the iTunes installer (but it wouldn't launch due to an error).
I've tried searching the Web, meanwhile, and I have yet to come cross anything related to what I'm experiencing. Any suggestions on how to troubleshoot it? I hail from the Mac classic days — all the way back to the Apple IIe — and don't have firm grasp of UNIX troubleshooting methods. For this reason, any help or tips would be MUCH appreciated.
Thanks, all!

It turns out I might have a solution for this problem. I haven't had enough time to determine whether what I am about to describe solved the second half of the problem I reported wherein iTunes, if it sits too long in the background or idle, will crash. But it HAS solved the issue wherein I am forced to reboot the computer in order to get the iTunes application window to launch after the "loading library" status bar completes.
I did a lot of things over the past few months to troubleshoot: repairing permissions, sifting through crash log files, deleting iTunes preferences, downloading and running the shareware OS X maintenance program called Cocktail, reinstalling QuickTime, etc. But what turned out to be the fix was to turn off "search for shared libraries" in the "Sharing" panel of iTunes preferences. Apparently what was happening after my personal iTunes library loaded was that iTunes began a "silent search" for other iTunes libraries on the network, and when it couldn't find them the application eventually quit responding (with nothing but the dreaded spinning beach ball).
For reasons that only Apple's software developers know for sure, iTunes does not, apparently, limit the amount of time that the iTunes application is provided to hunt for non-local iTunes libraries. Nor did Apple developers, apparently, think to provide an on-screen dialog to offer the option to cancel the program's search for shared iTunes libraries. So essentially iTunes provides no feedback as to what the spinning beach ball represents — a nonstop search for other shared libraries on the network.
I hope what worked for me works for you and anyone else who, like me, has experienced this issue and are frustrated by all the searches on the Internet that turn up nothing. Best of luck!

Itunes hang after latest updates

Since the last updates to my iMac iI find that the iTunes is constantly Hanging. It does not matter if I'm not using iTunes, as soon as its working in the background it hangs sooner or later. When I work with my music files in iTunes it usually hangs after less than 30 minutes.
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The test works on OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later. I don't recommend running it on older versions of OS X. It will do no harm, but it won't do much good either.
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There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. As I wrote above, it changes nothing. It doesn't send or receive any data on the network. All it does is to generate a human-readable report on the state of the computer. That report goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. If you prefer, you can act on it yourself without disclosing the contents to me or anyone else.
You should be wondering whether you can believe me, and whether it's safe to run a program at the behest of a stranger. In general, no, it's not safe and I don't encourage it.
In this case, however, there are a couple of ways for you to decide whether the program is safe without having to trust me. First, you can read it. Unlike an application that you download and click to run, it's transparent, so anyone with the necessary skill can verify what it does.
You may not be able to understand the script yourself. But variations of it have been posted on this website thousands of times over a period of years. The site is hosted by Apple, which does not allow it to be used to distribute harmful software. Any one of the millions of registered users could have read the script and raised the alarm if it was harmful. Then I would not be here now and you would not be reading this message. See, for example, this discussion.
Nevertheless, if you can't satisfy yourself that these instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
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☞ Copy a particular line of text to the Clipboard.
☞ Paste into the window of another application.
☞ Wait for the test to run. It usually takes a few minutes.
☞ Paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page.
These are not specific instructions; just an overview. The details are in parts 7 and 8 of this comment. The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. You don't need to copy a second time.
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