Possible iTunes and CD import freeze workaround

I have been dealing with this problem of iTunes locking up while trying to import a CD. I think I have found a workaround for this issue. I insert the CD into my drive,(do not have iTunes automatically open on CD insert.) and I copy the songs that I want onto my external Firewire drive. (You could copy the files to your own internal drive too. Just don't copy them into an iTunes folder) Once that is complete, I eject the CD and open iTunes. I then go through the import dialog in iTunes to import the files from the Firewire drive, or I just drag and drop the files onto my iTunes library screen. The songs then will import. But I need to go in and then input all the song names, artist, etc. I have found this to work, but I think Apple needs to address this issue since there are alot of posts concerning this problem.
Ti Book 667mhz Mac OS X (10.4.7) iMac and MacBook

I'm assuming you're using the Finder to pull the audio data (recognized by Finder as AIFF tracks) from the CDs. This is not an optimal ripping method by any means, as absolutely no error checking is possible (audio CDs aren't data CDs so they don't have any built-in error correction information on them), and so on.
Much simpler would be to use Max as your digital audio extractor. It doesn't hang like iTunes sometimes can, it can be quit gracefully, provides robust audio extration techniques, supports full tagging of output files, and even allows for the files to be added automatically to the iTunes library.

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