[DM-MUG] rainbow wheels in itunes

[Bill Davis]

If you've added any third-party visualizers, turn them off/uninstall  
them and see if that fixes it.

I had a problem similar to that a year or so ago,  even when the  
visualizers was not running. Don't recall which one it was.

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On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:54 PM, Darcy Baston <darcybaston at mac.com> wrote:

> While using iTunes, I keep having an  unresponsive app about ever 10  
> seconds. It's like clockwork. Every fixed interval, everything  
> halts, song playback stutters, and a rainbow wheel appears from 1 to  
> 3  seconds. When iTunes isn't the front most app, song playback is  
> uninterrupted. But when it has the focus...watch out.
>
> The app won't come to the front during its pauses, but the click is  
> queued so as soon as iTunes is listening again, it jumps to the  
> front like asked.
>
> I've been watching activity monitor during these pauses, and cpu  
> usage spikes from ~15% to ~60%.
>
> It started doing this with Leopard.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Darcy
>
> (Macbook 2.16, 2GB memory, 10.5.1)
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