ITunes takes 20+ seconds to start playing!!!

Just "upgraded" to 8.1 on my PowerBook G4 (10.4.11). I use iTunes to listen to radio talk shows I recorded. Now when I select one press play it takes forever for it start playing! I get the spinning colored wheel and have to wait and wait every time I pause play...
AND during this waiting period I can't do anything else on the computer, everything freezes for 20 to 30 seconds.....

The delay to start playing long MP3's in iTunes appears to have been corrected....when starting to play only. If you pause and move the play location to a new location, then press play again there is still like a 20 to 30 second wait to start playing again. HOWEVER if you do NOT press the Pause button (and move the location icon to a new time/location) it appears you do not get this "start up delay"....
But I have discovered another problem. For the longest time I tried to figure out how to convert an MP3 to a Podcast. I STILL really don't understand what a "Podcast" is technically (a MP3 with another file to save location data?). I just wanted my iPod to remember my play location in the long four hour radio talk shows I record and listen to (so if I go listen to music and come back to my show I don't need to search for my location). Anyway, in my search I discovered the "Remember playback position" feature (do a Get Info on your MP3, click Options)! I had no idea I could add that to an MP3....anyway, in my quest to make a podcast I discovered the "feature" which pretty much does what I want. Great.
BUT I discovered something....say I start listening to a show on my iPod and I listen for 1 hour 10 minuets. I then pause, and connect my iPod to my computer. I then open iTunes and want continue listening to my show from the point I left off...so when I select the show in my iPod and press Play in iTunes it starts playing at 1:10....which it will do. But when I do this it takes like two minuets to start playing again! Apple, you guys aware of this issue? I discovered it the first time I uses the "Remember playback position" feature.
The "Remember playback position" is great, but please the very long delay to start playing again...
Jeff
iTunes 8.2.1 (6) / iPod Nano 3G
Message was edited by: JeffNY
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