ITunes download timing

[Jude DaShiell]

The ITunes behavior of going out to grab podcasts shortly after being 
started up is not helpful since that work doesn't use a second process to 
be done in the background independent of the process used by the user to 
originally start ITunes up in the first place.  This is why the computer 
is often busy.  This was a poor design decision given the available 
underlying resources available to macintosh computers and is something 
that would have come out of Microsoft given the pc's limited capabilities. 
I think there are two possible paths out of this situation.  First use 
additional processes on the system when doing downloads; library 
additions, and imports.  Second and this will involve less coding, have a 
checkbox in preferences that allows ITunes once checked only to go and do 
downloads when it is being used to connect to the internet for playing 
streams or other activities with the ITunes store though the store access 
will probably need a second process.