I’m hoping someone has some suggestions. A friend of mine, a professor at a major university, unfortunately is relegated to using a Dell laptop with 3 GB of RAM running Windows 7 Enterprise 2009 Service Pack 1. 32-bit.
Due to storage constraints, he has been running his iTunes library off an external LaCie D2 Quadra V3C (1.16 TB free out of 1.8.1 TB). His control panel says there is 0% fragmentation. Most of the files he ripped from his CDs are in Apple Lossless format. Some of the videos in his library are from YouTube (H.264?). Playback of both music and video will often pause for 30 - 90 seconds, then resume from where it was paused. It can happen several times in one file. It is random, but happens enough that it’s impossible to listen to music or watch a video. He is running the latest version of iTunes (12.1) which he installed last Friday, but the problem existed prior to the update. He did some searching online and found posts from 2010-2013 talking bout this very playback issue happening on both Windows and Mac - and it seems related to running the library off an external drive. However, I haven’t been able to find any recents posts concerning this problem. I run my music and photo libraries on external drives on 3 machines and am not having this problem running Yosemite. I realize there could be many factors causing the pauses in his case. I asked him to try a different media player using content from the external drive. I know this is a talk list for Mac OS X! But I’m hoping there are some cross-platform experts here who may have run into this problem or have suggestions. Thanks, Kevin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
