Itunes has stopped working---whatis wrong?

Itunes has  stopped working       that appeared for 100 times      what is wrong with me?

Newer "green drives' will go into idle mode if not accessed after 20 minutes or so.  If iTunes is active and you try to shut down after the drive goes into idle ... you will get the error message  "iTunes has stopped working" and you will lose your library pointer when you restart iTunes.
Solution: Find one of many free programs on the Internet that will access the subject drive every 10 minutes by writing and/or replacing a short text file on the drive.  Therefore, it will not spin down and iTunes will have sufficient time to save the iTunes library when the program is shut down.  I know it is not green but who likes to restart Home Sharing and switch back to your favorite default screen each time it fails.
A better solution should be from Apple.  All they need to do is to allow iTunes an additonal 30 seconds to write the iTunes library before issuing the warning

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