ITunes locking music

I don't know if this is an itunes or ipod issue, but when I link my ipod into my mac for itunes all the songs in my itunes lock up and I am unable to move songs out of playlists or into playlists. I recently updated my username and don't know if this has anything to do with it or how I can sync my old account name and my new/current account name together to use my music. Someone help!

Your posts were not specific. You are doing this on the iPod thru iTunes and not to the iTunes playlsits/music.
Rather than doing this thru iTunes on the iPod, just do it to the playlists in iTunes, then sync the iPod.
If you r iPod crahses, all teh work you have done on playlists and editing song info will simply be gone with no way to recreate it.
iTunes is a music manager. Use it to do everything then sync the iPod to transfer your changes.

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ITunes locks up after adding music to library

Using the 7.5 version, everytime I add music to my library via importing from a CD, itunes locks up and I am forced to shut itunes down using the Windows Task Manager. I realize that many are having problems with 7.5, but has anyone had this problem yet? And better yet, does anyone know how to fix it?

There are lots of reasons why this might happen.
One quick thing to check,
Edit > Preferences > Advanced tab > Importing tab
What's your setting for "use error correction when reading audio cds"?
Change it the other way of what it is now, and try importing again.

Problem with itunes locking up only when burning to music library

All of a sudden when I burn my discs to an external hard drive with about 1-3 songs (never at beginning or midway through the burn)left to burn itunes locks up, forcing me to restart computer. Not all discs but about 1 every 15-20 burned. Since I am burning over 2000 of my cd's to library this is very annoying. If I use itunes just to play the disc it is fine and the discs work fine in my home audio system. I use windows xp and am burning to a western digital external hard drive. The discs are all clean with no visible signs of scratches or scuffs.
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yes i mean importing. by the way i use apple lossless. no the specific discs will not import. i just tried importing a disc i just bought new and it does not import the whoe disc as well. all of the discs i am importing are mine and are originals...not burned.

I thought that I was updating my phone...but it went into Recovery mode with the USB cord pointing to itunes and music notes in a circle. How can I get my Iphone 4 back to working without losing my data? I tried turning the phone off and it is uplugged.

My iphone 4 is stuck on the lock screen with the USB cord pointing to itunes and music notes. I thought I was updating the phone for itunes but it is now teetering on the Recovery Mode. I do not want to lose my data, etc. Can someone explain how I can get my phone back? Apple support is not helpful.

Your phone is in recovery mode. All data on it are already lost. You must connect your phone to your computer and restore through iTunes.

ITunes locks up every time I load my library

I just spent the last couple days creating my iTunes library to include only the music I want from my hard drive. I also spent a lot of time changing genres, artist names, etc, so I don't have a huge list of artists on my iPod. I was just about finished when I added another music folder and iTunes locked up. Now every time I open iTunes it instantly locks up. If I remove my library and start over it work fine. I tried importing my library (after moving it to the desktop) and iTunes locks up again.
Is that it for my library and so many hours of work? Is the iTunes database that fragile or is there any way to recover it? I am not used to working with apple software and hence have never lost this many hours of work before. I'm hoping there is something I can do. Is there another program I can use to open the library file with besides iTunes to figure out what's wrong with it? The apple support says to just start adding the files back one at a time, but that is the same thing as starting all over. And even if I did that, what's to say it wouldn't just happen again part way through?
If anyone has any ideas I would very much appreciate it, I'm very frustrated right now.

I suspect that one folder had a bad file that itunes couldn't deal with.
Do you remember which one it was? You could create a new blank library and try adding just that folder and see if it locks up again, then you'd know to look at those files and see if they play in another player or something.
This kind of thing is difficult to help with over the internet.

ITUNES locks up my PC

ITUNES locks up my PC when importing from my music folder as well as when importing music from a CD. It's very random, soetimes I can get through a CD without issue other times it stops every few songs and I have to reboot my PC.
Here's my CD Diagnostic:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
GBT_ AWRDACPI
iTunes 6.0.4.2
CD Driver 2.0.4.3
CD Driver DLL 2.0.3.2
LowerFilters: PxHelp20 (2.0.0.0),
UpperFilters: GEARAspiWDM (2.0.4.3),
Video Driver: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X\GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X
IDE\DiskSAMSUNGSP4004H________________________PR100-36, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
USBSTOR\DiskHP_____Photosmart_74001.00, Bus Type USB
IDE\CdRomSAMSUNGCD-R/RW_SW-212B_________________BS06___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [1,0]
IDE\CdRomSONYDVD-ROM_DDU1621____________________S1.3___, Bus Type ATA, Bus Address [0,0]
If you have multiple drives on the same IDE or SCSI bus, these drives may interfere with each other.
Some computers need an update to the ATA or IDE bus driver, or Intel chipset. If iTunes has problems recognizing CDs or hanging or crashing while importing or burning CDs, check the support site for the manufacturer of your computer or motherboard.
Current user is administrator.
D: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621, Rev S1.3
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Failed Reading table of contents, error 4310.
Check the website of your computer or drive manufacturer to verify that you have the latest firmware for your CD / DVD drive.
Audio CD reading succeeded.
Get drive speed failed. Error Code: 2020.
E: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-212B, Rev BS06
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Track 1, start time 00:02:00
Track 2, start time 02:26:17
Track 3, start time 04:39:62
Track 4, start time 07:29:57
Track 5, start time 10:15:32
Track 6, start time 12:29:67
Track 7, start time 15:02:40
Track 8, start time 16:53:65
Track 9, start time 19:30:67
Track 10, start time 22:17:27
Track 11, start time 26:03:27
Track 12, start time 30:10:37
Track 13, start time 33:03:32
Track 14, start time 37:05:65
Track 15, start time 40:09:22
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So, it's locking up while adding files on your hard drive to iTunes as well as importing from CD? What kind of files are you importing from hard drive are they WMA? What is your import file format set to MP3 or AAC or what?

Can't sync more than once - iTunes locks up

For 3 days now I have been having problems with iTunes. In each case, I have been able to sync once and then iTunes locks up and becoames completely unresponsive. The only error message I get is not from iTunes, but from Windows XP OS saying something about a delayed write failed, then... iTunes comes to a screaching halt.
I believe this has something to do with the library, as I was able to get iTunes back up and running by deleting the library completely, reimporting all my music, recreating all my play lists and then resyncing.
After hours of doing all this, I got one successful sync and then it locked up again!
I have tried 2 different computers with the same results.
Am I alone on this one? Is anyone else having this problem. I see a lot of listings for something about a " -500 Library error", but I do not get this message. Is it the same problem but for some reson the error isn't getting thrown?
TIA
John

Hard to believe no one else is having this problem. I talked to an Apple tech at the store on Saturday and he suggested brining my machine into the store and they could see if they could fix it. Problem is, it's buried in my entertainment center and there all kinds of wires going everywhere. Just to get it disconnected and to the store would be at least 2 hours of my time.
Hasn't anyone else had this problem?

Itunes locks up when I click the Burning tab of the advanced options panel

I can't burn normal cds now because of this issue. It simply locks up, not allowing me to do anything but close it by force.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Burning LOCKUP

Might be worth a quick check to make sure you have the most recent drivers installed for your CD burner, as well as all Windows updates. Also make sure you have the most recent version of iTunes . . . in addition, make sure you haven't tried to burn the exact CD too many times (there's a limit to the number of times you can burn your iTunes purchased music in the exact same 'configuration')

ITunes locking up only for my iPod

I have had this iPod for about two years now, never had any issues. But for the last month or so, any time I try to drag a new playlist onto the iPod, its hit or miss if its going to work or not. It will do some songs fine, then just stop on one and freeze, then after a while I decide to look at its not responding. I do the same with my Wife's iPod, and it has no issues. When I plugged in my iPod about an hour ago, it said it could not be read (even though I was just listening to it!) and had to be restored. Okay, fine, I restore it, start putting music on it again, get to about 75%, iTunes locks up again, reboot itunes, iPod cannot be read, blah blah blah, eject iPod, oh look, its still blank. So it didn't even put the 50 playlists it supposedly put on before it locked up, nothing. Now its telling me AGAIN that it cannot be read and has to be restored AGAIN. Two restores in less than an hour, what the ****.
So, what the **** is wrong with this crap? With how much I paid, the iPod should certainly last more than 2 years. I now have basically a useless brick. I have Windows 7 Professional, 32 Bit, fully up to date. Fully up to date iTunes and iPod software. What is going on.....

I USED to be able to get a playlist or two, I had gotten 5 GB of music back on it by putting 1-2 playlists on, ejecting, plugging back in, rinse, repeat. Now iTunes locked up AGAIN, checked the iPod, NO MUSIC. Really glad I bought this ******* piece of **** two years ago! Totally worth my money!
Now, on top of all this, I find this in the help section.
Symptoms
You may notice the following symptoms on your Windows PC after installing the iCloud Control Panel, iTunes 10.5 or later, or Safari 5.1 or later:
Apple software on Windows: May see performance issues and blank iTunes Store
iTunes is slow to respond.
Windows is slow to respond.
iTunes stops responding when backing up or syncing with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
Oh, so you mean that since you guys released 10.5, (and its now up to 10.6.??) people have had this issue of their iTunes not responding? What the ****. So basically since 10.5 people have had their iTunes not working correctly? Fix this crap.
I already did the LSP check thing, only one besides the apple one are two windows ones that are up to date and should be there. There is no other help to be had. What a joke.

ITunes Locking Up When Using External Hard Drive

Has anybody else had any trouble with ITunes locking up for about 30 seconds at a time. The music keeps playing but the cursor locks up and you can't click, use hot keys, etc. I'm using a 150GB external hard drive to store my music and while it's locked up the hard drive is crunching something, almost like ITunes is looking for something. All of my files are organized, no viruses or spy-ware that I can find. Doesn't happen with any other audio program, just ITunes. I've watched the CPU usage on Task Manager when it happens and the only thing that is running is ITunes. Please help!

I came across your post because, I have been having issues for a while with the same description, except that I am using separate partitions on my main drive.
What I noticed is that if I set my podcast downloads to go to my NTFS main partition, there is no lag... but the moment I set it to my FAT32 partition, the lag starts back up.
I believe that the issue is with the slooow write time to FAT32 in large drives. (And in my instance, the move command apple does to put the podcast, which writes to the FAT32 partition and removes the NTFS temp download) Do you see the same lag or alot shorter if the drive is formatted to NTFS?
I don't really have any space currently to format my partition to test the issue, but I the fact of the downloads speeding up when set to my NTFS main disk makes me think that this issue could be lessened by using FAT32.
a side note for me, I'm considering reformatting my drive to NTFS, after backing up due to the advancement of ntfs3g in linux, so this could solve my problem at least.

Locked Music Folder/Disk/No Permission

My itunes recently froze and wouldn't respond to the Force Quit command. I logged everyone off of the computer, including myself, and logged back in. Itunes had been shut down during the log off. I tried to start it back up again to see what the problem had been only to receive an error saying that I either had a locked music folder, the folder was on a locked disk, or I didn't have permission to use the music folder. The whole program shuts down when you press the "Cancel" button (the only button available to press)
How on Earth do I fix this problem? I have no idea how anything was locked seeing as I didn't lock anything and the other users on the computer don't know how to lock a folder or disk. I don't know how I couldn't have permission since none of my admin powers have been changed since we first bought the computer and i've never run into this problem before.
HELP!

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ITunes Locks up when I try to play a video

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IPod times out / iTunes Locks Up / Synch not working

Hey everyone... I am having a terrible time here.... For Christmas I bought a new iMac Core Duo and an 80GB iPod. I transferred all my music from my old Mac, a G4 Cube, using the Migration Assistant when the new iMac booted up for the first time.
I am not able to get a successful sync from my iPod. Some of my symptoms include:
(a) Plug In iPod, iTunes launches. Sync Begins. iTunes locks up at a particular song (i.e. Synching 138 of 13275). iPod still appears to be synching but nothing is happening.
(b) Plug in iPod, iTunes launches. Sync Begins. iPod quits synching after a minute or so and returns to its main menu. iTunes still thinks it's synching but is locked at a particular song (i.e. Synching 38 of 13275)
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