itunes and memory?

Question

Does having itunes with 4000+ songs on your computer affect it's performance? well I know it does in some way. But is there a good way to file the songs, so as to not use alot of memory?

Answer 1

no not really i have 10,000 odd saongs on mine and it dosent slow i down

Answer 2

I don't know, I'm still trying to figure this out myself. I have 2 laptops, one really cheap crappy one that I use for the internet and a more decent one that I use for work and important stuff that I don't want to lose.
The cheap internet one is the one with itunes and I have around 5,000 songs, when I first started using itunes the computer was fine, but about 2 months ago after adding many podcasts (this seemed to be the memory killer for me rather than my music) every single day I have an bubble pop up telling me to delete programs from my c drive as there isn't enough memory.
I've been doing this, but at this rate I'm gonna lose most of my installed programes!!! and it can only be itunes causing this.
I don't want to delete all of my podcasts as I'm still trying to catch up with some of them and listen to them all but I'm going to have to delete half of them and see if this has any effect on the laptop.
I'm wondering also, if you have most of your music as a library in windows media player then all music will be duplicated on the computer which won't help. I'm still deciding whether to delete the windows media library, as that combined with itunes must be using a lot of memory.
Sorry couldn't be much help. But yes I do think itunes can affect pc's performance, depending on how much memory the pc has to begin with. If I used itunes on my other laptop, I think it would be absolutely fine. Good luck

Answer 3

Apparentely not. My computer recently flipped out because it said I have no memory left. I do have a lot of pictures, but it happened right after downloading more songs, and I only have 800! I had to go back and delete a ton of old Word documents. Wow; computers are skimpy on the space these days.