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10.4: Reduce iTunes skipping on an external drive
Authored by: drfx on Nov 15, '05 03:05:18AM

I have been having the same problems since Panther! Running all the latest everything Tiger iT6.0.1 on a 2.5Gig G5 6 gig ram, the LaCie400 FW drive for music can't cut it. I even moved all the music and transferred the entire library to another LaCie 400 and it does the exact same thing! I have run teck on the drives cleaned the caches. I can't figure it out! It's terrible w/ 80gigs of music dropouts. I have a bunch of firewire drives and CD& DVD players attached from time to time, but not now, and it still does it. Someone said turn the pre-amp down in itunes - buffer size large - sound check. Tried it all. I guess Move music to the second internal drive? I can't believe I'm the only one with this problem. There is no info on this - does anyone know what the hell is going on? Motion, FCP all work - except this tiny apps thruput. HELP



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10.4: Reduce iTunes skipping on an external drive
Authored by: lesleyames on May 08, '06 01:39:05PM

I've been having a similiar problem. A couple friends with PCs have a similiar problem. I have tried everything from Apple's troubleshooting methods for the Airport Express to changing the buffering in iTunes to recently reinstalling everything on a new upgraded 80ghz harddrive. This actually worked for a month. But, this week it started again. I am at a loss. If you come up with something let me know.



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10.4: Reduce iTunes skipping on an external drive
Authored by: nodata on Jul 23, '07 08:47:22PM

maybe i have a fix ihad the same problems 35k songs on 400gig extdrive playback stoping every 10 to 35 secs banging my head inbetween so looks like you need to store only the song files on the extdrive keep itunes and xml files on the internal drive playing tracks and writing xmls at same time seems to much for firewire its working for me ta to all yo who posted xml was the key good key hint thank you thank you



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