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[Dan_Lockwood]

I've been getting my ducks in a row and have now upgraded my PC with a new 1T main drive and a slave 1T drive. 

I had lots of music and have gone through hours and hours of looking for duplicates etc before I loaded everything into iTunes.  I had several folders with lots of the same artists, but some had more albums than other folders of the same artist.  I've got most of it cleaned up and I'm trying to at least organize the PC folders a bit better than I was before.

I bought a 1T external Omega drive and copied all my music out there first off the old PC drives.  Once I had the new drives in the PC I loaded the latest version of iTunes.

I now have just over 421gig of MP3's and iTunes is very slow in scrolling.  The song count is 85858 songs right now.

Is there a way to speed up the scrolling etc of iTunes or am I just pushing the limits of the program?  It's kind of like working through remote desktop programs or over typing your screen.  Man I hate that...  I was on GoToMyPC for some time through work and it was SO slow that it took seconds to finish a sentence once typed and if you had to scroll back to make a correction you had no idea how far you went.

Are there other programs to do the same thing as iTunes and still connect to my iPhone and iPod 160gig Classic?

Also while using my iPod Classic on my SERG I get just about to the end of most every song and the sound stops for a few seconds and then it comes back on and finishes the song.  The same iPod in my house will work flawlessly without any skipping at the end of the songs.  Is this something others are seeing?

I also have an early version of a Griffin auto power plug that plugs into the iPod that allows it to charge and then takes the audio through the same bottom plug and then on into my Aux plug in my dash for the radio.  On a resent trip driving from St. Louis to east of Lexington KY, about every 10 seconds it would skip for a second and then come back on.  I unplugged the iPod and ran direct from the headphone top plug and used iPod power and all was great again.  I don't know what the problem is with the Griffin is.  Does anyone else have this problem?

Just a what for, I bought a Griffin Evolve iPod dock a couple years ago and it is a GREAT sound dock.  This thing is a wireless speaker system from a central dock.  It has Lithium batteries and the speaker pods are water resistant.  The range is a good 150' from dock to speaker placement.  The remote will control volume, skip to next song, shuffle, pause, On/Off, but no access to playlists or way to change artists.  But if you have a playlist with several hundred songs it will shuffle or straight play them and the sound is great.  They're a little pricey at $350, but I use this a lot.  The speakers can be set to stereo or mono so you can take both or just one speaker with you.  If you're painting a room and you just want to hear music, the mono single speaker works great.  If you're on a deck and you want stereo, take them both.  Also if I go to someone's house and they have one of these systems, I can put my speakers on his dock and the program to that dock and now we have four speakers to play.  The battery charge lasts for over 12 hours of constant playing.

Sorry for the plug and the rambling on and on and on, sorry... 

So the main questions are this, does iTunes have a limit to the amount of music it can handle safely?  Has anyone had a problem with an iPod and skipping at the end of each song when plugged into the Aux on their SERG?  This is using it on iPod internal battery and using the headphone plug outlet with the volume turn up full.

Has anyone had any issues with Griffin auto power/Aux cord system skipping every 10 plus seconds?  This has just started for me on my last trip to KY.

Thanks in advance for your help.

    

[wreckman 42]

85858 songs. I am impressed. You must have one of every song ever recorded.

[SteveFLHTK]

Or 12 of every bad one  ;-)

Seriously, I have almost 40k songs.  I know that's not near what the OP has, but it's still pretty significant.  I see no degradation of iTunes at all.

[Buy early]

A RAM upgrade might help with your scrolling issue. I have about 350GB in iTunes and it takes a while to open but runs ok. I have 4GB of RAM.

[Dan_Lockwood]

A RAM upgrade might help with your scrolling issue. I have about 350GB in iTunes and it takes a while to open but runs ok. I have 4GB of RAM.

It's a dual core 2mhz speed processor with 2 g of ram.  It may be time to upgrade to 4 g which is the max for this older PC.

Originally I was trying to be selective on what I uploaded, like just the songs I like of an artist, but then I thought why not just do all you can and then choose what you want on certain play lists.

I do playlists a bit different than most.  I have over 300 playlists because I make my playlists up of artists I like.  Like the Beach Boys, I have over 300 songs, some repeats but from live or different albums.  Some are from demos and some have music without words and others are just words.

The Beatles I have 426 songs and quite a few are repeats like the album 1 and the Anthology albums, the remastered albums etc.  But hey, I've 1 T dedicated for just music so why not do as much as you can.

So far I only have about 1/3 of my CD's uploaded and the rest were ripped from other's.  My boss has an 80 g iPod and I got most of my Beatles files from ripping his iPod to my hard drive a few years ago.  I probably still have over 600 CD's to upload and I've gone to the highest sample rates for the best sound I can get without being a full WAV file taking up 10x the amount of space.

If someone wants to discuss sharing songs or files, I have several extra external drives of about 300 gig that I can load and ship to someone in return for hopefully new stuff to add to my library.  Anyone interested?

Thanks for the input on my situation.

    

[mrmagloo]

Damn, I wish I had that problem!  I think I spent a week contantly loading my 600 CD's way back when and that only came out to something like 7,500 songs.  I can't fathom 85,000 songs!  Good luck!