OBVIOUS MEMORY LEAK iTunes about:10.6.3.25 (upgraded from 32 to 64) but iTunes*32 process is in memory. clicking on a song to play or right clicking it adds 5MB. Did 32 have this problem and didn't uninstall correctly or is 64 broken too.

Question

OBVIOUS MEMORY LEAK
iTunes about:10.6.3.25
windows 64 bit Home on AMD64 HP G60 laptop
downloaded and installed "iTunes32Setup.exe"
saw the problem and uninstalled it
downloaded and installed "iTunes64Setup.exe"
iTunes about:10.6.3.25
now i see process "iTunes.exe*32
it is ok when it play song list
but ***** UP MEMORY when i click on another song to play. apparently it doesn't release previous player thread
OR,
if you right click on a song, the memory will blow up antother 6MB and won't release it...can do it all day long
-- until run out of memory and iTunes freezes...without any of my changes.
sooooo.. is it the uninstaller or is iTunes64Setup.exe mispackaged or do both have memory problems on AMD 64 ?

Answer 1

Unfortunately I was able to repeat the memory leak even with turning the Toolbar off.  To replicate the problem, I was able to watch the memory leak each time I actively selected a new song with the iTunes open.  I was able to repeat the leak with and without both Spotify and TuneUp Companion running and not running.  The only thing I noticed is when both Spotify and iTunes were open, the memory leak from iTunes added insult to injure with Spotify which kept trying to sync up with iTunes local library which would crash Spotify as well.  But I can confirm the memory leak is in iTunes 10.6.3.25 (looking forward to 10.6.4 fixing the problem).