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THE MAC GOD · Sep 13, 2003, 09:16 AM

OK... I recently upgraded to the Harmoni so I could use my iPod with my iMac... WELL, I get all my music over to my iMac (since Apple won't let you just authorize or deauthorize your ipod to computers like you can itms music) and put it on my 2nd HD (40gb). I have about 22 gigs of music. When I try to add them to the library, it gets so far in the "Processing" dialog before it just stops on one song and sits there. I have a CPU monitor in the menu bar and the cpu jump to about 99 % on average.... SO, itunes is sitting there doing what appears to be nothing and sucking 100% of my power... SO yesterday I let it sit so maybe it could figure things out for itself, but 18 hours later, still a no go. I completely uninstalled iTunes and I reinstalled it VIA the SUCP. It still won't accept my music without loop-killing itself. SO, I take a moderate approach by adding only 55 artists at a time or so and it work fine for the first two times... but the third time, no go. So I try 2-3 artists... and I just get the spinning beach ball from frappin' hell...

Obviously i'm frustrated... please help if you can... argh....

ASIMO · Sep 13, 2003, 09:29 AM

Ironic handle. Perhaps you should change it?

Other than that, I suggest narrowing down to which artist/album/track that itunes is choking on. You said 55 artists at a time worked the first two times. Then try 110 artists first, then go a couple of artists at a time thereafter.

I have never added this way in itunes, but does itunes display which track it adds?

THE MAC GOD · Sep 13, 2003, 09:32 AM

People always tell me that... but confidence is an important thing...

Trust me, if it was hanging on a specific song, I would have removed the offender... but it's almost like iTunes can't handle too much music at one time... at least for me on my machine... every time I try, it grinds to a halt on a different song... but it is always early on... Maybe i'll try adding from the bottom up...

THE MAC GOD · Sep 14, 2003, 01:37 AM

*FRUSTRATED BUMP*

Well, still won't work... tried on different drives... nothing... It still just stops on a random song and beach balls forever... ARGH AIEEEEEE..... help please!

THE MAC GOD · Sep 15, 2003, 11:44 AM

Bump... Anyone???

Raining Down in Texas · Sep 15, 2003, 02:14 PM

Two things I can think of:
- Is there enough space on your target hard drive for all the music? By default, iTunes will copy all the music files to wherever your library is.
- Older versions of iTunes had a limit on the number of songs in a library (see this link ). Perhaps iTunes 4 has a larger limit and you're the first person to run into it.

THE MAC GOD · Sep 15, 2003, 09:46 PM

Yeah... my external drive (internal drive run outside) is a maxtor 40gb... its empty and has nothing else on it... I have a 30gb iPod... Maybe i'll reformat it... Also, I don't know why Apple would sell iPods that exclusively sinc with a product that doesn't support the advertised amount of songs... DOH!@

THE MAC GOD · Sep 15, 2003, 11:41 PM

Nope... also uninstalled itunes again... reinstalled and forwarded it to the newly formatted HD... now itunes beachballs on raven.aac. Only about 500 songs in

Xeo · Sep 16, 2003, 02:37 AM

Are you having it copy the songs in or are you just adding them to the Library? Or are you copying them to the iPod itself?

THE MAC GOD · Sep 16, 2003, 11:16 AM

Both... I have put them in the default folder (first) for itunes library and just dragged the folder over. That didn't work. Then I took it out of the default folder and dragged the collection on the library so it would copy it over... still beachballs after a while. I also tried the Add to Library both ways also... argh...