ITunes slow when changing some info???

Question

Hello,
I've bought a few videos from iTunes and if I decide to change the genre or artwork, it is really slow to update the info. The beach ball spins and spins.
It is only in the genre and artwork.
What could cause this? Should I use a different meta data editor than iTunes itself??
Cheers

Answer 1

Any experience creating a RAM disk, specifically for helping iTunes run faster?
I am on a 2006 iMac coreDuo with 2GB RAM. Snow leopard latest.
ITunes library is 500GB, so library file is 25MB and the library xml is 136MG.
The genius lib file is 1.2GB.
Anyway, running alone, iTunes is sluggish giving the spinning wheel anytime I ask it to do anything that writes to or reads from disk the itunes Library file. So managing the collection, sorting names playlist creations and modification, all the daily doings of my music maintenance involve this library file being accessed all the time.
I think this is at the core of my sluggish iTunes. Mac OS activiity monitor shows free ram, and a modest 40GB virtual memory use. Even when other apps are involved, there is still free RAM. anyway, as soon as I ask itunes to do something in a new field, like go from scrolling artists to viewing the main list, and clicking sort all songs by date added..boom boom pow, I get the damned rainbow wheel.
Is my bottleneck, as I think, the disk write-time for the library file and library XML, or will my problem e solved with a new iMac ro even a new mini? If it is the disk write time beings slow, is there a way to either trim the file size or get the read-write faster than an internal drive already is?
Would a RAM disk help. Can I direct iTunes to use RAM disk scratch space, or perhaps create an applet that will pair with Itunes launching, create a RAM disk and create a fresh copy of the iTune library there, and keep it synced with the master library file there on the internal HD. Then tell iTunes to use this new RAM disk copy of the library file.
any thoughts or advice appreciated!
I've already tuned off mac for more than 20 minutes to allow a full reset, then restarted 2 more times, then relaunched iTunes, also I've deleted and reinstalled itunes the application.
This is not a new problem, its been ongoing for years, as the library has grown.
I feel as though iTunes is not cut out to handle this large database, but I want it running as fast as possible, since I'm wedded to iTunes. It's running the whole-house music and ipod and iphone syncs etc.