iTunes 7

iTunes 7 looks nice but behaves very poorly. Any time I play a song from my NAS where about 4/5 of my music is stored would grind it to a halt. Any other attempt to access the NAS while this is happening is extremely slow, if the finder manages to not crash. This is all over 802.11g which iTunes 6 handled with no problem. I tried letting it sit all day to ‘catch up’ for the past week hoping that it’d work gapless playback through the ~65BG of music I have; no luck.

I have removed all plugins, I have disabled anything in the preferences that might cause it. I think it’s gapless playback and a half baked, rushed to market app that only exists to keep everyone’s eyes on Apple as Microsoft announces Zune.

This step by step guide worked for me to revert to iTunes 6.