ITunes keeps freezing within 3 minutes of being opened (OSX, iTunes 11.04(4) )

Hi All,
My iTunes application keeps freezing and I have no idea why. Whenever I open it now, regardless of what I do, it gives the spinning colorful pinwheel within a few minutes and doesn't go away until I kill the program. It happens if I do nothing at all and just leave the window open (not even touch the mouse or keyboard), if happens if I start to play a song (the song will keep playing, but iTunes will get unresponsive), it always happens D:
Has anyone else had a problem like this? Apologies for how difficult it is to troubleshoot, it doesn't seem that any action I'm doing is causing iTunes to freeze, it just stops responding.
It's been going on for a few days now. I'm all updated, tried restarting the computer... no idea what to do!!! Please help me.
Thanks very much in advance!

Actually I think I figured it out. I think I was using a faulty link for one of my podcast subscriptions that was messing everything up (Tiny Desk Concerts Audio Podcast).
What tipped me off was that I noticed a down arrow icon and what looked like a status bar popping up in the top right corner of the screen just before it froze. I guess that's a podcast downloading indicator.
Thanks all!

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