Yep, this is extremely annoying. For an application that is supposed to catalog my library of media, it's quite inefficient with a large number of items. Withou

Yep, this is extremely annoying. For an application that is supposed to catalog my library of media, it's quite inefficient with a large number of items. Without knowing what the possible solutions to this are, all I can say is that there needs to be a distinction between collections of media which are expected to be more reasonable in size (say an album, or one artist's catalog) and libraries which may grow to be quite huge. I have terabytes on external HDs that I won't let iTunes touch for a variety of reasons, leaving it pretty much no function other than to push things to the iPod or AppleTV.