Itunes is repeatedly freezing, what can be done to fix?

iTunes is repeatedly freezing (requiring a forced quit).. latest software (mountain lion and itunes both). Not immediately but after a period of some time - time enough to play a song or two or more, but without fail the application locks up - if a song is playing the pizza wheel displays, the song plays to the end but does not go to the next).

Hi,
Do you have Match and How much memory do you have?
On my old imac with latest software and 2mg ram, I often ran out of RAM but after 5 minutes every thing worked fine - some back ground process clogging up processing power!!
If you are trying to do searches, go to search box and untick search entire library.
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