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A prefs fix for iTunes freeze on CD import
Authored by: Anonymous on Dec 28, '04 11:08:41AM
I noticed there was an option to tell it not to play the CD while it was importing, so I unchecked it.

Technically, it's playing the encoded music from your library of songs as it goes. With AAC it usually pauses until at least one full song has been written to the library. With MP3 it will play after some number of seconds (or blocks) of data have been written out. That is, it is not playing the song from the CD, but from on-disk MP3/AAC/AIFF. Test this yourself by ejecting the CD after it's been ripped. The music will continue to play, and your library view will show the "playing" icon next to the song.

This does not negate this hint, of course. In fact, it just reinforces the notion that this problem could be caused by this option. Having the altivec DSP stuff on the CPU do less work by not forcing it to decode data while it is encoding elsewhere it probably a good idea if you are having problems.

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