Who needs Photoshop when iTunes will steal all your RAM...

MagicBoy

MagicBoy

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Are Apple taking the michael?

Mac was rebooted earlier today, I've fired iTunes up and sync'd my iPod and left it playing music for about an hour.

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Cmd+Shift+4, then press space and click the window you want. Will appear using Stevie-J magic on your desktop.

Got it up to 640MB then it started to drop a bit. Might have had something to do with loading all my Apps to see if it was merely borrowing the RAM or making a bid to make iTunes the only app you'll ever need...
 
My who system is using 450mb currently with iTunes, Mail FireFox Widgets etc etc open and running - There is definitely something odd with yours there - As Sam said, it's probably an abnormality.

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Just did a quick test. Killed iTunes and loaded it again on a tab that was not music. It used about 100MB of RAM. I switched to a music tab and started browsing my music in grid view and the ram usage to rocketed as it cached all the album art. That is what's eating up the RAM.

On another note, I wish they did a music view that was organised by artist with all the songs hidden, but just in a standard list the way the older iTunes did it. Each artist just being expandable showing all the songs as you want them.
 
That'd be it then. I've got it displayed in Coverflow while using Shuffle play. Quite a large library - 5000+ items.

Flipped back to list view and it's just dropped from 370MB to 200MB.
 
My system's been up for nearly a week, I've got shedloads of stuff in my iTunes library (just under 400Gb), this evening it's been playing music for me at the same time as streaming a film to the AppleTV and it's currently using 278Mb of RAM which seems high, but not unacceptable.

/edit - wow! I switched to coverflow mode in music and scrolled the mouse wheel quick to run through everything and it shot up and peaked at 702Mb!
 
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No video in mine, just music and podcasts. RAM usage seems to back off if there's a load of other stuff open. I'm on 2GB RAM, anything over about 1.4GB allocated and iTunes backs off and lets Safari steal it instead ;)
 
iTunes using 58mb...had the mac on for a week or so, been playing music, had Logic open recently. Must be an issue with you I'm afraid :(
 
Apple have managed to mess it up again. The cover flow images are all stored in the cache to allow a smoother flow. The more album covers you have, the more ram iTunes will use. :(
 
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