Spotlight seems to get tired

After a while of having my Mac running (few days), Spotlight will slow down dramatically. Is there something that I can do that makes it perform the same as after a reboot?

Hi 4thSpace;
How much RAM do you have?
How much free space do you have on your system drive?
Allan

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Hello Pepsimax1972,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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I have been an iTunes user for the longest time. However, as my music library grows (17,500 songs/128gb) so does iTunes' ability to keep track of all of it.
Usually, a few times a week I will notice after starting up iTunes, my library shrunk, in the size of usually an album (or about 80mb). I know whats happened, but I just can't fix it as I have a larger library, it would take hours to checklist everything from memory. iTunes has removed an album or two or three, sometimes even an entire artist's discography from the library and in about half the cases, entirely from the hard drive (a WD MyBook 500gb external).
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Honestly, I think something else is the root cause of this. iTunes is too stupid to change tags within MP3s on its own, and clean up your library for you.
WMP can change tags on its own in the background. Make sure the options for getting info from the internet are not enabled on both the privacy and library tabs. Other media software like Zune will also do this. WMP doesn't delete stuff from your itunes library, though.
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http://www.gromkov.com/faq/repair/mp3_validator.html
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