Sorry to sound dismissive about the problem. I had the Pismo laptop in one
house whileI was moving into another one. I had read so many forums about this
problem that it seemed that all versions of iTunes had the issue.
I have iTunes 7 on the Pismo, and run )SX 10.39, with 784 RAM and the
delightfully small 400 mhzprocessor. The amount of music is actually 6 gigs,
not 9. The HD is a year old, with 80gigs. Way bigger than I need, and only
perhaps 9 or 10 gigs are used. There is no other junk stored on the computer
except for iPhotos. No other programs are ever open (at least not intentionally)
It's too slow to use daily, so I use one of the 2 white iBooks I have (both
g3). Their itunes also skip, but it takes an hour of play before this happens.
Their processors are larger (800)
When the Pismo gets warmed up, songs miss a beat. Which means in about ten
minutes. Later on, they actually skip once or twice. Then more. I have even
put in new disks into the cd/dvd drive, only to have them skip and miss a beat
too. I change them out, to another unit, and they are ok (not scratched).
Internet radio streams stop to bufferabout every 5 minutes.
I have not used Quicktime for anything or gone into preference panes or
libraries to disable anything. I just stopped using the Pismo for music
playback completely, especially at parties. I keep it off the table, to let air
under it. It can get warm. It's had a new motherboard, a new battery PMU board,
a new audio sound card, a new dvd drive,,anew HD, and finally a screen. I never
had the OSX 10.4 disks so I had to go with 10.39.Internet surfing requires that
you go make coffee and perhaps go out for cigarettes while it loads your site.
It does not like the new Yahoo mail. So, I use it only for music, which I
thought made the least demands on it (esp when I insert an actual CD).
There are so many forums on the web about this, even on Apple forums! (one such
forumis labeled 'Answered" by apple, when it is clearly not, and the complaints
flood in... at least they should not label it "answered." It is not answered.
Apple refuses to address it.I have a list of Apple forums to visit yet, I
should go to them, but I suspect they will be all blather.
Some have trouble with iTunes 9, some downgrade to 8, and their problem is
solved, some disable the playback/crossfade controls or sound enhancer, then a
day later they are back on, saying "well, that only worked for a day.." Some
have trouble only with 7, some vow to go all the way back to itunes 1. No word
on that yet.
My question now... is whether or not people have switched to Windows Media
Player(for mac, if there is such a thing) and given up on iTunes altogether.
I'm ready! And, if in the process of transferring my songs, they will get
corrupted? Even my purchased iTunes songs skip a beat, as do the mp3's and
AIFF's, and what have you.
I can find nothing that suggests Apple addressed this between iTunes6 or 7 or
8 or 9, and I'm inclined to think I can't go up much higher on the Pismo,
because of my 10.39 OS.And, iTunes is a memory hog?
I'll switch to the white iBook (10.4.11) and use that itunes (version 9)
although it will also begin to malfunction, but it takes longer (about an
hour). Much of the library is the same,but not all of it.
During parties, I always took the white iBook along as a back-up, for when the
Pismo went wonky.
I shall look up how to use Quicktime only, and whether I must drop in the songs
individually, or, it will store the database and I can just hit 'play' or
'shuffle' and go about my work...
(if you have better luck with Quicktime, then what's your take on iTunes, and
Apple's silence about it? I have only Apple products, but I am sure glad they
are not building Space Shuttles)
PS I am sure it's the slow 400 processor, but people write in all the time to
these forums(Mac Rumors, Apple, ehMac (Canada), etc,...and they have Snow
Leopard, and MBPunits, something I can only dream of... and they have
worse trouble than me with the itunes skipping....
I think I am going back to vinyl records.sr
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