Hi. I can't speak to the multiple processes thing, but I can say that
I've never seen itunes go busy when downloading content. In fact, my
itunes rarely goes busy. The only time I can think of that it
consistently generates a busy signal is when I've got it encoding
something. Even that doesn't happen all the time. Actually, upon
further thought, I have experienced the problem someone reported about
where it would freeze up when playing audio CDs. I've only
experienced this once or twice, but then I don't often play audio CDs
on the computer. Generally I just have audio CDs inserted when I want
to rip them.
Darcy
On 21-Dec-07, at 12:05 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
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.
