iTunes has quit responding

[learninmypc]

Late last night I did the usual, clicked the itunes icon on my start menu & it launched. noticed it was still playing sequentially so I tried to change it to random. Nothing happened. I X'd out,waited a few minutes & launched it again. Clicked play & nothing. Right clicked the tab in the task bar & clicked exit when the box popped up telling me iTunes has quit responding. Let the laptop sit a bit to let my anger subside & retried it again. Ditto. After repeatedly trying to get it to play, I tried a repaid,that didn't work so I used revo to UNinstall it.Once successfully uninstalled, I deleted the contents of the recycling bin, rebooted, downloaded a new copy from techspot & reinstalled it.
Still no luck after trying it two more times so I gave up. I did manage to back up my iPhone with it but no music. Its NOT mandatory I get it working, but I'd like to, any ideas? Yes, this is on my Vista Home Premium laptop. At one time in the above headache I did use Task manager to shut it down. Any ideas???

 

[Cobalt006]

It may have been Itunes server. Not the software. Other then that . Not sure.

 

[learninmypc]

Ok, I went here support.apple.com/kb/TS1717 & then to here http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1717 & it suggested I try launching iTunes using safemode to fix it which I did. I don't remember the exact path, but I ended up deleting the cache & something else & it was working, I hope it continues.
One reason I hate having problems when tired. Fingers crossed

 

[learninmypc]

It may have been Itunes server. Not the software. Other then that . Not sure.

Thanks, I'll hope its fixed now

 

[learninmypc]

That was a short lived fix. Bye bye iTunes.

 

[Cobalt006]

Those things happen, Glad you have a fix.

 

[learninmypc]

Had, but thank you

 

[Cobalt006]

Can't blame you there

 

[SNGX1275]

This was a fast give up.

I would have just rebooted and seen what happens.

 

[learninmypc]

This was a fast give up.

I would have just rebooted and seen what happens.

I've rebooted the laptop several times & no change. I have since removed it & defragged the harddrive. I do like itunes so will probably wait a few weeks & reinstall it.

 

[SNGX1275]

iTunes is great for a lot of things, but on Windows one thing it isn't great at is being lightweight. So it has to run a ton of background stuffs to give it the feel it has on OS X and that often doesn't work right and Apple doesn't have a lot of experience on Windows. It is often a bad experience for the user unfortunately.

Perhaps you could say what you use iTunes for and maybe some other people could suggest an alternative.

 

[learninmypc]

I use it for tunes only. Well, I like the visualizations too.
I'm back to using VLC for now.

 

[SNGX1275]

Winamp (even the bloated mess it now is) is pretty good for tunes and visualizations. It is lighter weight than iTunes and should serve you well.

 

[learninmypc]

I haven't used winamp in years. I mainly grabbed iTunes to use for my iPhone but since I have iTunes on my W7, I'm ok.

 

[learninmypc]

Winamp (even the bloated mess it now is) is pretty good for tunes and visualizations. It is lighter weight than iTunes and should serve you well.

Thanks, winamp is nice.