ITunes unnecessarily spinning up hard drives

Question

Here is a feedback I just submitted to Apple. If you know of a solution, please share it. If you don't and are bothered by the same problem, please copy it and submit it as your own feedback.
Please prevent iTunes from spinning up hard drives when I merely browse my music library. Prior to iTunes 10.4, I would have to actually click on a song before iTunes would spin up the hard drive containing it. While this was undesirable, it's gotten worse in iTunes 10.4. Now with iTunes 10.4, merely selecting an artist or album causes iTunes to spin up the hard drive, presumably so it can load an album cover to display in its lower left corner, which is new behavior, as previous versions would leave this area empty until a song was selected.
Please note that it should never be necessary for iTunes to spin up a hard drive when merely browsing the library, because it has all the metadata and art cached in its own private database. Merely clicking on a song or reviewing metadata should not spin up a hard drive. Furthermore, iTunes doesn't even try to update itself when changes have been made to songs outside of iTunes, so it's doubly unnecessary to spin up the hard drive when merely browsing songs. Browsing the library should amount to browsing the database, which is located in my system on an SSD.
Please make iTunes spin up a hard drive only when it really needs to, such as when saving metadata changes or actually playing a song. The environment will thank you for being greener, and I will thank you for reducing wear and tear on my hard drives and helping me keep the noise level at a minimum.

Answer 1

UPDATE: I've noticed that if I quit an application without closing its documents, and then open it again it restores all previous open documents.  If I close the documents first (then quit the app) then there's nothing to restore, which seems to make things faster.
I wish things were a bit more obvious!