The problem might not be with iTunes, it might be something else that's running on your PC that's hogging the CPU.
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Tom Scola - Sep 13, 2006 6:17:39 am PDT #8917 of 10003
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tommyrot - Sep 13, 2006 6:20:49 am PDT #8918 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, iTunes on my work PC is taking an average of 11% of the CPU, but it sometimes jumps up to over 50%. I think that's a lot more than it used to, but I'm not positive.
This is on a 1.80 GHz Pentium 4, with a GB of RAM.
eta: I suppose that iTunes could still be looking for album art, which might explain the spikes in the CPU usage.
le nubian - Sep 13, 2006 6:36:10 am PDT #8919 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
okay, I restarted the computer and I think all is well.
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2006 7:08:42 am PDT #8920 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, is this "sync iPod to multiple computers" thing a feature of iTunes 7 (or iPod software update)? Or just the new iPods?
tina f. - Sep 13, 2006 7:56:10 am PDT #8921 of 10003
So, is this "sync iPod to multiple computers" thing a feature of iTunes 7 (or iPod software update)? Or just the new iPods?
I think it might be a bit of a misnomer actually. The only thing I can find on apple's site that mentions syncing multiple libraries is on the new features for iTunes 7 software and it says:
And if you’ve got iTunes Store purchases you’d like to move from one computer to another, iTunes syncs in reverse, too — from your iPod back to any authorized computer.
I didn't see anything about iPods synching to multiple computers. But I might have just missed it.
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2006 8:03:19 am PDT #8922 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just saw something about how iTunes now allows for multiple music libraries (like iPhoto does), and that there's a way you could take advantage of that to sync an iPod to multiple computers. It sounded like more trouble than it's worth....
tina f. - Sep 13, 2006 8:10:36 am PDT #8923 of 10003
There is also this on the iTunes page:
Multiple Libraries - Build your collection over multiple libraries, and keep them on different hard drives to save space.
and that there's a way you could take advantage of that to sync an iPod to multiple computers
But I can't figure out how you would do this. On the new "all the info about your Pod" syncing options/interface/screen thing - it does not give you this option.
tommyrot - Sep 13, 2006 8:18:04 am PDT #8924 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, I found where I read this. It was in the comments to a blog posting. Oh, and I misread it too. So, um... IGNORE ME! </Venture Brothers>
amych - Sep 13, 2006 8:24:09 am PDT #8925 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It turns out that you can only sync music purchased from the iTunes store back to a second computer -- this definitely wasn't clear in any of the sites reporting on yesterday's presentation, and it's pretty handwavey on the Apple site; (warning: DRM rant!) since the non-purchased stuff is the music I already frakkin' own, they really should make it at least as easy to get to that....
Kristen - Sep 13, 2006 8:50:24 am PDT #8926 of 10003
Oh that's unfortunate. I currently have my iTunes library spread over three hard drives. It would've been nice to have a way to sync them up without making myself mental.
More mental anyway.