Very slow itunes sync

Latest sync with itunes taking hours. Was ok up till now?

Photos in your camera roll? If so, this is a know cause of slow syncs:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3603

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ITunes+Windows 7= Very Slow Music Sync

As above. Everything is perfect, but when i want to sync my music with my iphone 4 or with my ipad it takes forever. Any suggestions ?

I have very slow itunes since SP1, but have found a remarkably easy work round. Start itunes, start what you want to do - like sync to ipod et al, then just click the windows 'show desktop icon' and itunes does the stuff properly!
I have win 7 SP1 2gb 2Ghz AMD

RAZR V3i is very slow when syncing songs with iTunes

My V3i use to sync songs with iTunes pretty fast, but after updating iTunes it syncs very slow, and half the time just hangs.
Is anyone else having this issue? Any tips?
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iTunes stalls loading a mp3 on my phone when that mp3 is currently being played.
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Very slow iTunes 11.02

Hello,
iTunes 11.02 on Mac is very slow loading tracks, it's taking seconds to switch between every track.
I tried disabling " Organize my library " and unchecked " search entire library " but no luck.
My system is clean.
I have 7200 track in my Library on an external HDD connected to Exterme Airport. I never had such issue with older version of iTunes.
It's not related to wireless transfer since it's running very fast on Windows Media Player under Bootcamp. Switching between tracks is gapless.
Anyone kind enough to advise ?
Thanks !

First try this fixit:
http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Program_Install_and_Uninstall
If that doesn't work you may need the the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility
Unfortunately the Microsoft Installer Cleanup utility has been withdrawn by Microsoft because of compatibility issues with Microsoft Office so you will need to find a copy elsewhere – the installer is msicuu2.exe. You need version 3.
Google msicuu2.exe download
MajorGeeks in the above search has a copy of version 3
Check for malware before installing it.
Download a fresh copy of iTunes
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Save the file on your PC.
Now use the following method to remove iTunes and its components:
XP
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1925
Vista/Windows 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
*If you hit a problem with one of the uninstalls don't worry*, carry on with the deleting of files and folders as directed in the method.
Restart your PC.
Run the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility. (Start > All Programs > Windows Install Clean Up)
If you get permission denied error, Try Run as Administrator – an option if you right click on the program.
Remove any references you find to the programs you removed - strictly speaking you only need to worry about those programs where the uninstall failed.
If you don’t see an entry for one of the programs that did *not* uninstall, look out for entries that start All Users that are blank entries or have numeric entries that look like version numbers
restart your PC and try installing iTunes
If you want Quicktime you can download it here
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html

Very slow itunes match

Hi,
Since i signed up to itunes match i experience very slow results, even on wifi and i have a 50 mbps connection.
Downloading songs from the cloud to my ipad or iphone is extremely slow, streaming numbers the same.
I am livinig in the Netherlands, not sure if this something has to do to which server i connect.
Tried already to switch itunes match on and off and to reset my network connections.
Appreciate if someone can assist.
Rgds Bernard

I have countless albums that are in fact available in the itunes store and they are still intollerably slow to download, even over a decent wifi connection at 50mb/s max ... my internet is just fine and I'm still having issues with receiving my content from apple's servers. I personally don't think it's an "it's not availble in our archive there for it's not as accesable/fast to retreive" issue.. it's that their server is pathically slow and probaly overloaded with people that paid 25 bucks to store their library in the cloud and are now spending way too long trouble shooting multiple issues. I for one am taking the upgraded "matched" files and walking. this is the most dissapointing service/product they've come up with.
I spent more time then I'd like to admit manually converting tracks (quite a few that should have matched, some not) in order to even upload compressed AAC 256 content, then tricking itunes into replacing said uploads with my higher quality files locally.. everythiing works well on my desktop and I can delete and redownload my content at the compressed quality and even upgrade certain things, but the service on my mobile devices are thus far usless... lame.

Very slow iTunes

When I connect my 2G shuffle to my computer (PC), iTunes acts very slow. If I try to mark a song, it takes many seconds before i actually get marked. This did not happen when using my old shuffle or when my 2g shuffle is disconnected.
I have updated the shuffle
Any tips?

sindretorp,
Do you have the "Convert songs of higher bit rate to 128kbps AAC" selected?
If so conversion could be using a lot of resources as it goes to load songs to the iPod Shuffle (Second Generation).

Very slow itunes activity.

my iTunes is very slow. When I try to transfer songs to my IPod it takes longer to do so than usual. I can't access ITunes stores as well; for connecting to it takes forever and I do not get anything in the end. It takes longer to actually transfer songs to my iPod. I do not know what is going on. What should I do?

sindretorp,
Do you have the "Convert songs of higher bit rate to 128kbps AAC" selected?
If so conversion could be using a lot of resources as it goes to load songs to the iPod Shuffle (Second Generation).

ITunes 10.7 is very slow to sync audiobooks to my new iPhone 5.

It's not just audiobooks I think, but that's what I'm working on at the moment. It has taken about 10 minutes to sync one normal length (10 hour) audiobook to my iPhone. I'm using iTunes on Windows 7. Is there any fix for this?

no this doesnt work, i did back up an old iphone 3G with iOS 4.2.1, but once connecting the new iphone 5 with iOS 6 it doesnt offer me to restore from this back up... simple it looks like there is no such back up or at least it doesnt offer it.... the only think i can do is to set up as new iphone....

VERY VERY slow to sync!!!

Hi I am not sure whether this is the most efficient way to summit my problem but hope you guys can find me the solution.
I brought Itouch early last month but was unable to install and use the itouch probably. The sync function is so slow that eg. It took me the whole day till now (21:36 hk time) to sync my contacts from outlook to the itouch! And this was not the first time I'd experienced this situation.
When I finally sync the contacts, again, the search function was so low. It took like 10seconds to type a character in the search bar and had to wait another 10 seconds to type the others.
You may advice me to reset my itouch and software, but I tried to reset my itouch and restored to software of itune before many times and same thing repeated again and again!
I have to say, after experienced all these, thought the itouch seems to be a fantastic device but the software and user friendliness are disappointing and much backward then other PDA/smart phone type of devices. Can you develop some more user-friendly software for business people who only need is manage contacts, reading files and connecting online? What I need is software that I can direct transfer my staff from the computer to itouch, it just took ages to do this using itune! The games are good but they are only complementary.
Secondly, I just brought software--abgrougs, which was supposed to be helping me to categorize my contact and let me search my contacts by company name, but I was unable to do that. Can you advice the solution?
Million thanks.

Same problem here. I spend a week thinking iTunes was locked up, killing it, and insanely doing it over and over again.
Is there some process we can collectively get Apple to look at this? I have spoken to support 3 times, and visited the Geniuses at the store, and while they all seem to want to help, they continue to give me the same bad advice, over and over... reinstall itunes, restore your phone.
I suspect this problem will just magically go away in the next itunes release, but I'd really like someone just once to tell me, hey there was a problem, we know what it was and we fixed it. Here's the details...

Very slow iTunes download to Windows 7

I've got a brand new Windows 7 32 bit computer that runs just great, but the downloading free podcasts thru the iTunes store takes forever -- like 10 minutes for a 20 minute podcast. The first few run fine, but then, it gets slower and slower and slower, so that eventually, they all "time out." I use Norton AntiVirus.
What's going on here?

are you using WiFi? if so then the signal strength might be low.

VERY weird iTunes syncing issue

Here's my issue...I need to give a bit of background but I'll be brief. About 4 months ago a friend gave me an album on a USB drive. Loaded into my iTunes and synced to my iPhone. No issues. About 3 weeks ago, I noticed that on my phone I now had 2 copies of that album instead of the usual 1, and in each case only the last 4 tracks were listed when I chose the album. The first 11 "disappeared". However, if I do a spotlight search I can see they are still on the phone and I can play them. Now here's the weird part. Also about 3 weeks ago (we can't confirm if it happened at the exact same time), the same thing happened to my friend on his phone...except he can see the first 11 tracks and his last 4 "disappeared"! I should stress we've never synced to each other's computers, don't have Bump or whatever it's called to share data. Literally we have nothing in common other than the fact that he gave me the album several months ago.
So 2 questions - any clue how this could have happened to both of us, but in inverse? And second, how can I fix this on my phone so the album appears normally with all the tracks?
Sorry I wasn't brief, thank you for your help.

no idea on the cause, but let's try to find a solution!
first thing i would do is make sure all of the ID3 tag info is correct for all of the songs. to check that, select a song and do "file -> get info" in the menu bar.
as to why this happened, do you have all of your songs in 1 playlist, several playlists, what? also, how are you trying to see the songs? are you using the "songs" category in the iPhone, "genre", etc?

Flaging podcasts as played VERY VERY VERY SLOW (iTunes 7.2.2)

Just to say that I noticed that flaging podcasts as played (or unplayed) in the podcast windows slows down the application drastically (and also fills the system hard disk with temp files somewhere.
I happend to me to even freeze the system by applying a flag on a large number of podcasts at once (several hundreds)
Did anybody notice the same bug?
Doing the same from a playlist doesn't make any problem. (so, I presently flag my podcasts using a smart playlist that lists all podcasts)
This bug seems to be new to version 7.2.n (there was no problem until the last 7.1.n version)
I just hope this bug will be fixed very soon.

hmmmm. what security software are you running on the PC?

Very slow iTunes Music Store performance

Since upgrading to the latest version of iTunes, whenever I try to access the Music Store I see the progress bar with the "accessing music store" message for 5-10 minutes. It eventually loads but then then trying to navigate within the store is just as slow. The other interesting thing is that content on Apple.com that's related to iTunes Music Store (like banner ads, promo content, etc.) is not loading either or might load after 2 or 3 minutes. And it's not a bandwidth thing. I have fiber optic service. Any ideas?

Must have been an ITMS server problem at Apple. Everything is smokin' now.

Very slow iTunes download speeds

I've been having slow download speeds in iTunes for a while now. Downloading a 1 hour TV Show used to take 1 hour or so. Now it's taking 11 hours. Xfinity speed tests say I'm getting 28 mb/s downloads.
Some info:
iTunes 10.6 for Windows
Apple Air Extreme - the pc is hard wired to the router
Comcast as ISP
Using my ISP's DNS servers

I have a 50x5 Mbit cable business class modem, from Time Warner, in my house (doing that give me priority bandwidth over other residences).... Also as a business class there's no data caps or port blockings. The most I EVER get from the iTunes Store is 4-5MBytes/sec (about 35 Mbits)... Usually I get 1-2 MBytes/sec to iTunes or any device
My guesses are
1) Apple just doesn't have the bandwidth during certain times
2) I notice they throttle accounts. If I download an entire hd season, I start out fast, then it slows after a few hrs... Im guessing apple has a max data cap per day then slows you down.
3) I also don't think Apple is capable of handling all the new 35-50Mbit connections that are now readily available from the big cable companies.
Im in Charlotte, NC, USA

Very slow iTunes in Vista - help!!

My iTunes in extremely slow on vista - any suggestions??

Make sure you have the most current version (7.1.1). Also make sure that your computer isn't getting bogged down by other applications. By default, vista loads the most commonly used applications into RAM to make them "load faster" but this can cause slowdown in machines with less RAM. If you think that might be the problem, check microsoft's site for information on how to reduce the amount of memory vista is using by default.

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