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I simply do not believe this. I have a loaded 2017 13" MacBook Pro (i7, 16GB RAM) and iTunes is fine. A few months before that my machine was the least-powerf

I simply do not believe this. I have a loaded 2017 13" MacBook Pro (i7, 16GB RAM) and iTunes is fine. A few months before that my machine was the least-powerful 2015 MacBook Air (11", i5) and iTunes was fine on that too.

jakebasile 9y ago
The problems are much more pronounced on my Windows machine but I assure you the iTunes experience is far worse than that of Spotify. I have no reason to lie about it.
Osmium 9y ago
It's a big enough application, I'm sure some people have issues with it under certain workloads. I'm the same as you however -- I've never had issues with iTunes performance. I don't love the design, I'm glad they're simplifying it, but it always performed better than Spotify for me (which is the main reason I switched actually; I found the Spotify app to be terrible).
cjsuk 9y ago
Got a 2013 MBP (also i7, 16Gb RAM) and iTunes flies on it. It's perfectly usable on my i5 T440 with 8Gb of RAM on windows 10 as well. The only thing that pisses me off about it is the ellipsis next to the track names on the song list.
mikestew 9y ago
I simply do not believe this. Your profile implies that you write software for a living, and you're going with "resolved: works on my machine"? Especially with something that has the breadth of iTunes, along with the vast number of users, I'm most certainly willing to believe that there are cases of iTunes not running well on powerful machinery.
- kfriede 9y ago
  > write software for a living > resolved: works on my machine Haven't we all thought this at least once in our careers?
  - mikestew 9y ago
    Thought it? Hell, I've got the sticker: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certif...
- brandonmenc 9y ago
  > you're going with "resolved: works on my machine"? We're on a casual forum, all evidence here is anecdotal, and I don't work for Apple, so yeah.

jakebasile 9y ago

The problems are much more pronounced on my Windows machine but I assure you the iTunes experience is far worse than that of Spotify. I have no reason to lie about it.

Osmium 9y ago

It's a big enough application, I'm sure some people have issues with it under certain workloads. I'm the same as you however -- I've never had issues with iTunes performance. I don't love the design, I'm glad they're simplifying it, but it always performed better than Spotify for me (which is the main reason I switched actually; I found the Spotify app to be terrible).

cjsuk 9y ago

Got a 2013 MBP (also i7, 16Gb RAM) and iTunes flies on it. It's perfectly usable on my i5 T440 with 8Gb of RAM on windows 10 as well. The only thing that pisses me off about it is the ellipsis next to the track names on the song list.

mikestew 9y ago

I simply do not believe this. Your profile implies that you write software for a living, and you're going with "resolved: works on my machine"? Especially with something that has the breadth of iTunes, along with the vast number of users, I'm most certainly willing to believe that there are cases of iTunes not running well on powerful machinery.

kfriede 9y ago
> write software for a living > resolved: works on my machine Haven't we all thought this at least once in our careers?
- mikestew 9y ago
  Thought it? Hell, I've got the sticker: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certif...
brandonmenc 9y ago
> you're going with "resolved: works on my machine"? We're on a casual forum, all evidence here is anecdotal, and I don't work for Apple, so yeah.