[b3ns0n]

I have a G4 Quicksilver with a 1.8 GHz upgrade, 1.5 Gig RAM and about a Terabyte of HDD space. My problem is that iTunes, when running, uses between 20% and 45% of my CPU time. I tried everything I can think of, such as truning of the ITMS, and the EQ and any audio modifiers.
Any help in this area would be much Appreciated!

[Thinine]

How is iTunes displayed? The scrolling text field with the song title and artist and stuff can take a bit of CPU. Have you tried the mini size? (Hit the zoom button and then resize it to be as small as possible.)

[b3ns0n]

It doesn't matter what I do to the window or to the prefs. Even minimised with out it playing it's still taking the same range of CPU time.

[cybergoober]

Do you have any plugins installed? Check ~/Library/iTunes/iTunes Plug-ins.