Time Machine making Daily backups of Entire Itunes Library

Hi There,
I have searched around the forums and cannot find an answer to my problem.
I am using time machine over a 1TB time capsule, my laptop is the only computer that is backing up to the drive,
Originally I noticed that my time machine backups were taking a long time (over 7 hours while connected through Ethernet)
I have downloaded BackupLoupe and using this utility I have found that daily backups of my entire Itunes music Library are being made (122GB).
Does anyone have any idea what may be causing this issue? I have followed the Time machine trouble shooting guide and Completely wiped the drive and started again,
I have performed a disk and permission repair on both the time capsule drive and on the Macbook through the install DVD, however each time I initiate time machine on the freshly reconditioned drives it happens again.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am going slowly insane.
Cheers
Josh

bigjnz wrote:
I have downloaded BackupLoupe and using this utility I have found that daily backups of my entire Itunes music Library are being made (122GB).
Is it only the iTunes folder; and the entire contents?
If so, the iTunes folder itself may be damaged. That happens occasionally; something in a folder object gets corrupted, and Time Machine either doesn't find real changes, or thinks everything changed.
In those cases, the only solution we've been able to find is to rename the folder, create a new one, move the contents, and delete the old one. The first backup afterwards will back up everything, but thereafter it should be ok.

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