iTunes 10 hands-on: snappier performance, questionable UI choices
@ 2010/09/04Let's face it, performance is not iTunes' strong suit. I have a decent-sized library of some 6,700 tracks, for a total of 30GB of storage space—I can listen to music for nearly 51 days straight without ever hearing the same song twice. That is not a small music library, but it certainly doesn't compare to many people I know that complain that an iPod classic still isn't big enough to hold their library.
For those with large libraries hoping for a full Cocoa rewrite, this is not the iTunes update you've been looking for. But while iTunes 8 and 9 got progressively slower—it got to the point that switching to iTunes to skip a track or stop it to answer a phone call was a five to ten second trial of patience—Apple promised that iTunes 10 would offer faster performance.
For those with large libraries hoping for a full Cocoa rewrite, this is not the iTunes update you've been looking for. But while iTunes 8 and 9 got progressively slower—it got to the point that switching to iTunes to skip a track or stop it to answer a phone call was a five to ten second trial of patience—Apple promised that iTunes 10 would offer faster performance.
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