iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
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iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
I use iTunes on an iMac G5. Recently, I've updated OS X and iTunes.
Since doing this, I have frequent problems when ripping tracks from CDs - I regularly get the 'spinning beach ball' of death. When this happens, the machine just hangs and I have to re-start. It was fine until I updated the OS X and iTunes. Any suggestions, please ?
Since doing this, I have frequent problems when ripping tracks from CDs - I regularly get the 'spinning beach ball' of death. When this happens, the machine just hangs and I have to re-start. It was fine until I updated the OS X and iTunes. Any suggestions, please ?
Re: iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
Not wanting to be alarmist, but I had a similar issue when I upgraded to Leopard. I ended up doing a Disk First Aid on my drive, which reported it as having unfixable errors. Replaced the drive, and all was well... but there was a small amount of data loss, so a backup would be recommended.Haydn wrote:I use iTunes on an iMac G5. Recently, I've updated OS X and iTunes.
Since doing this, I have frequent problems when ripping tracks from CDs - I regularly get the 'spinning beach ball' of death. When this happens, the machine just hangs and I have to re-start. It was fine until I updated the OS X and iTunes. Any suggestions, please ?
I think the drive was already failing, but for some reason the upgrade exacerbated it, which is something I've come across more than once before. Might not be your issue, but it could be worth investigating.
Re: iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
I haven't upgraded to Leopard, just upgraded to the latest Tiger (10.4.11). Is it safe to downgrade to the earlier version of Tiger (think it was 10.4.7)?straycat wrote:Not wanting to be alarmist, but I had a similar issue when I upgraded to Leopard. I ended up doing a Disk First Aid on my drive, which reported it as having unfixable errors. Replaced the drive, and all was well... but there was a small amount of data loss, so a backup would be recommended.Haydn wrote:I use iTunes on an iMac G5. Recently, I've updated OS X and iTunes.
Since doing this, I have frequent problems when ripping tracks from CDs - I regularly get the 'spinning beach ball' of death. When this happens, the machine just hangs and I have to re-start. It was fine until I updated the OS X and iTunes. Any suggestions, please ?
I think the drive was already failing, but for some reason the upgrade exacerbated it, which is something I've come across more than once before. Might not be your issue, but it could be worth investigating.
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Re: iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
If it is a hard drive issue, it would need looking at anyway - I'm being a bit alarmist having been burned by that before (on both Macs and PCs)Haydn wrote:
I haven't upgraded to Leopard, just upgraded to the latest Tiger (10.4.11). Is it safe to downgrade to the earlier version of Tiger (think it was 10.4.7)?
Perhaps I have a knack for making things go wrong - I'd still maintain that a disk check would be a good idea (they can still fail, no matter what platform you're on)
Rolling back to an earlier Tiger - I honestly don't know, having never done it - didn't, in fact, know you could without a reinstall. If nothing else works, it's always worth a shot.
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I used 10.4.11 for a month or so before upgrading to 10.5 last week and didn't have any problems with iTunes or otherwise. I don't have any "haxies" installed (like APE) or any downloaded iTunes plugins; these can cause problems.
I agree with straycat, run Disk Utility and check things out. In general you can't back out an OS point upgrade without doing a reinstall.
As always, backups are a Good Idea. Before 10.5/Time Machine I used Carbon Copy Cloner. SuperDuper! is also nice.
I agree with straycat, run Disk Utility and check things out. In general you can't back out an OS point upgrade without doing a reinstall.
As always, backups are a Good Idea. Before 10.5/Time Machine I used Carbon Copy Cloner. SuperDuper! is also nice.
I am using OS X 10.4.11 and iTunes 7.5, and my system hangs after playing an average of about 5 tracks. It was the same problem using 10.4.10, but fine on earlier versions of OS X and iTunes. Which versions are you using Trev?trev wrote:I've also been having issues since I upgraded. A CD will play two tracks and then hang. Hopefully a fix will be on the way soon.
Try Max: http://www.sbooth.org/Max/
Re: iTunes and the 'spinning beach ball' of death
Thanks, but I won't do this just yet. I suspect it's some sort of bug with the latest iTunes and/or OS X. (As Trev has had the same problem using iTunes 7.5 and a different version of OS X, I suspect it might be a bug with iTunes 7.5). Anyway, I'm going to speak to Apple support staff at the Apple Store and see what they suggest.straycat wrote:Not wanting to be alarmist, but I had a similar issue when I upgraded to Leopard. I ended up doing a Disk First Aid on my drive, which reported it as having unfixable errors. Replaced the drive, and all was well... but there was a small amount of data loss, so a backup would be recommended.Haydn wrote:I use iTunes on an iMac G5. Recently, I've updated OS X and iTunes.
Since doing this, I have frequent problems when ripping tracks from CDs - I regularly get the 'spinning beach ball' of death. When this happens, the machine just hangs and I have to re-start. It was fine until I updated the OS X and iTunes. Any suggestions, please ?
I think the drive was already failing, but for some reason the upgrade exacerbated it, which is something I've come across more than once before. Might not be your issue, but it could be worth investigating.