[TONEPUB]

Just curious, doing a bit of research.

How big are your iTunes collections in terms of CD's?
I noticed that as I went up past about 500 CD's iTunes got
a lot slower to use and above 1000 CD's it really got pokey.

Your thoughts are appreciated...

[low.pfile]

Hi Jeff,

What gets sluggish in iTunes, the interface window? Play/Pause/Skip controls?

I use the iTune List view primarily and have 544 Albums (AIFF) @285 GB total, on an older G5 and it isn't sluggish when browsing (even with coverflow View). There probably is a limit though. I hope to find it someday!

Ed

[Loftprojection]

I have around 500 Apple Lossless CDs in my primary library which sits on a Time Capsule and about 100-150 in my secondary library which is local on my Macbook.  I didn't notice differences in response time as I increased the number of CDs and I sure hope I don't in the future. 

Interesting topic, I hope you find something to fix it.

[PhilNYC]

Just curious, doing a bit of research.

How big are your iTunes collections in terms of CD's?
I noticed that as I went up past about 500 CD's iTunes got
a lot slower to use and above 1000 CD's it really got pokey.

Your thoughts are appreciated...

What kind of Mac do you have, and how much memory does it have?

I have just about 500 CDs on my G5 iMac (1GB RAM) as well as a few GBs of podcast videos, and everything seems to run fine....

[Crimson]

Just curious, doing a bit of research.

How big are your iTunes collections in terms of CD's?
I noticed that as I went up past about 500 CD's iTunes got
a lot slower to use and above 1000 CD's it really got pokey.

Your thoughts are appreciated...

Hmmm. I have about 15000 tracks from just over 1100 CDs all ripped to ALAC with no issues running off an iMac core duo with 2 gig of ram. It even runs fine when the library is accessed as a share from another machine via wifi.

Do you use a lot of album art using excessively large graphic files?

BTW, I've heard of libraries approaching 100,000 tracks with no issues.

[pardales]

My collection is about the same size as Crimson's. All ALC files on an external hard-drive using an older Powerbook G4 laptop. I have noticed differences in HD access speeds, but not related to the overall size of the collection. Perhaps other issues are at play?

[Crimson]

Update:

Did some googling and found the following info:

1. If you're running it on a Mac with v7.0 and above, disable 'Automatically download missing album artwork' in Preferences -> General.

2. If you're running v7.0 on a Vista machine, you're SOL.

3. If your library is approaching 200,00 tracks on a G5, you're SOL. You need to upgrade : http://www.ugnn.com/2007/04/itunes_painfully_slo.html 

[Se7en]

34000 songs, 162gigs.

Most of these are lossless or mp3. I haven't really ripped much of my cd collection yet. Need a bigger drive.