Speed up iTunes search speed

Oct 10, '05 06:15:00AM

Contributed by: callefjant

Here's another one of those simple yet useful hints. If you, like me, have suffered from slow searches (we're talking slow here, as in one-character-per-second-slow) in iTunes, make sure that the browsing panes (artist, album and optionally genre) are hidden. On my G4 Cube with 450MB of RAM, a search for 'johnny cash' (picking 122 out of 7500 tracks) takes 9.5 seconds with the browsing pane open. The same search takes only 3.7 seconds with the browsing panel hidden.

[robg adds: On a faster machine, the effect of the browsing panel isn't obvious on the speed of the search results -- it seems to take about the same amount of time either way. But what is noticeable is the delay when typing if the browsing panel is open; there's a definite delay between characters appearing in the search box as I type if I have the browse panel open.]

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