LastFM client freezes my iTunes temporarily

I'm on the same mac as you and I see the little pop up top right. You can still use iTunes, it's not frozen. Just click on iTunes. The pop up fades in its own time.

Hmm. I'm able to click on my iTunes and shift it out of the way of the pop up, then click in the search bar ready to type. No beach ball. Pop up still there.

So that means it's something else causing the delay. Any clues in the Activity Monitor?

The Activity Monitor tells you what's doing what on your machine and how much memory they use while in operation.

You're looking for anything out of the ordinary. You can Google anything you see in Activity Monitor if you don't know what it is. Something eating up the memory for instance. Depends how often you get the beachball. Do you see it a lot or just for this task?

With my machine, sometimes I see the beachball a lot if the internet's slow (evenings, weekends), or if I've left something open for a long time. iTunes can be tricksy too, has to be said. It behaves better on a Mac than PC, it loads faster, but I still think it's clunky.

Do you have the latest version of iTunes?

If you still think it's the client, you could do a fresh reinstall. You'd have to completely wipe the one you have now first though. It's probably fine. When mine's idle, it uses less than 2% CPU, and about 6% in use, give or take. My iTunes uses 0.1% idle and about 3% in use, give or take.

If you have a bunch of other stuff open, that will slow things down on your machine.

If you've never done any housekeeping on your machine, that might be a factor too. Stuff like keeping the desktop tidy, trash empty, clear cache from time to time, temporary internet files. All this stuff eats up memory unnecessarily. You'll find mac tips on keeping your machine tidy all over the web. (you probably already know this bit but thought I'd throw it in anyway)

If it's still happening after you've checked the above, post back, maybe there's some more troubleshooting we can do.

ItalianMike said:
I'm having the same problem when I launch iTunes. iTunes seems to freeze as Last.fm is loading, clicking on anything in iTunes brings up the spinning beach ball.

The problem only started after the last update from Last.fm

I'm on 10.6.5

Same here. Not happy.

I have a "slightly" worse problem, after installing the last version of the last.fm software my iTunes doesn't start. It launches the process but it dies seconds after that.

Starting in safe mode works. The only plugin I have is the last.fm, there is definitely a bug in it.

I'm using iTunes 10.1 (54).

Please fix this ... it's really annoying

im also having this problem. really quite annoying

** Bump **

Fix this shit!

bump. this is incredibly annoying.

Fix this already!!!!!

Bumping this again ... it's incredibly annoying. Please address this bug, it occurs every time you start iTunes. It's getting to the point where I'm considering removing Last.fm.

I have the same problem in windows, just waiting for a solution.