PLEASE Stop iTunes From Stealing Focus

This has been an ongoing issue almost since day 1. If you have a large music library, when you add it to iTunes, iTunes constantly steals focus while it's adding music. If you attempt to do anything else, 9 times out of 10, you end up aborting your music adds and have to start the import all over again.
This has been going on as long as Ive used iTunes, its the reason I dont like using iTunes and it needs to be corrected.

No idea what suggesting to let iTunes run and finish adding his music has to do with a "'tude" or being a punk, of which my repsonse was neither.
For some reason, MadFlava has decided that since it takes "LITERALLY hours to import the music", he's not gonna do it.
I don't know why he can't let iTunes finish adding the music, but as above, that's what I would suggest.
Since he's been doing this since day 1, I suggest either let it finish or quit using iTunes.

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