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Why does my iTunes use so much CPU time?

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Mar 15, 20265930 views
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I have a roughly 2 year old Macbook (10.5). I have iTunes 10. When iTunes is playing MP3s, I see CPU usage of the iTunes process in the system monitor ranging from 65%-75%. When I pause the music, I see CPU usage of about 65%-75%. I do not have any visualisations going, to my knowledge I have not t…

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Here are some guesses: Indexing metadata about your music Pre-decoding next tracks in your playlist for smoother transition from song to song, such as gapless playback or crossfading Did you recently enable gapless playback, and perhaps it is analyz…

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