I have an SSD and iTunes is on it, but it takes forever to load?

[TridenT]

Wtf? It loaded faster on the hard drive I used to have it on. (A 1TB western digital Green Power 5400RPM drive)

It takes a good 10+ seconds to load.

 

[disappoint]

Your OS is busy uploading to NSA first.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

If only we had a forum section for things like drives.

 

[jagec]

"I bought a new toilet, but my shit still stinks?"

 

[IronWing]

Wtf? It loaded faster on the hard drive I used to have it on. (A 1TB western digital Green Power 5400RPM drive)

It takes a good 10+ seconds to load.

iTunes calls home.

 

[TridenT]

iTunes calls home.

Presumably so, but for 10 seconds? WTF? It didn't take that long on my traditional HDD though.

 

[Morbus]

"I bought a new toilet, but my shit still stinks?"

Word.

 

[Xeon_Addict]

TridentT,

I have my iTunes + iTunes folder on an SSD and it takes about 1 second for it to load. Do you have the program itself on an SSD?

 

[Puffnstuff]

I have my iTunes on a vraptor and it loads slow but then again I have over 1500 albums in it. I'd love to put in on a 840 evo...if only someone would buy me a 1tb evo.

 

[TridenT]

TridentT,

I have my iTunes + iTunes folder on an SSD and it takes about 1 second for it to load. Do you have the program itself on an SSD?

Yes. The only thing not on there is my actual music, but even then... That shouldn't matter. My HDD is fast enough to load iTunes in less time than this!

 

[LoveMachine]

How is everything else running? iTunes is just a strange and terrible bit of software (and I say that as an iTunes user for all my music).

 

[TridenT]

How is everything else running? iTunes is just a strange and terrible bit of software (and I say that as an iTunes user for all my music).

Everything else seems to run decently. That's why I'm perplexed by iTunes.

Anyone know an app that can monitor the startup of another? Such as what the app is disk-accessing or what it's sending out on the network?

 

[razel]

Despite all the clear explanations if you are still unhappy, why continue to be unhappy? Sell us the SSD!

 

[Morbus]

Everything else seems to run decently. That's why I'm perplexed by iTunes.

Anyone know an app that can monitor the startup of another? Such as what the app is disk-accessing or what it's sending out on the network?

Process Explorer.

You're not really a tech enthusiast if you use Windows' default task manager.

 

[TridenT]

Process Explorer.

You're not really a tech enthusiast if you use Windows' default task manager.

Yeah, I'm sure that snobbery gets you far in the real world.

EDIT: I don't think that even does what I asked. I looked around the program, but I did not find it doing more than simple monitoring in % of traffic. Even then, it doesn't seem to show more than total bytes called, not what disk it is trying to access or where it is accessing. I'm wanting specifics like if it's calling a ton of blocks all over the platter and making it seek 5,000 times or if it's making hundreds of small calls and waiting on a response from the Apple servers or what. I want ze details!

 

[LoveMachine]

Unfortunately, I'm apparently not enough of a "tech enthusiast" either, and can't help with your specific issue, but I can commiserate. I have an AppleTV that has a slideshow screensaver that loads photos from iTunes and shows them on the TV. When the screensaver turned on, my media HDD (all programs including iTunes on a SSD) would just get thrashed the entire time. Long story short, iTunes is a terribly written program. They keep adding features but have trouble getting the existing bits to work. I like the interface and the AppleTV has very high WAF, but otherwise it's a turd of code.

 

[coffeejunkee]

Yes. The only thing not on there is my actual music, but even then... That shouldn't matter. My HDD is fast enough to load iTunes in less time than this!

I agree, it doesn't make much sense. But I'd suggest blocking iTunes in firewall, to see if it's indeed calling home. Else try reinstall (backup library obviously).

I use iTunes only for loading my ipod and don't have many songs in there, just 1200 or so. Music is on hdd, iTunes on ssd, starts in less than a second.