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6 Ways To Speed Up iTunes
Mar 11, 2025
A little tutorial on some simple things that may help you speed up iTunes.
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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six different ways that can help you
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speed up iTunes Now if you know much
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about iTunes and you use it on a regular
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basis to sync your devices or just to
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listen to music and watch video you'll
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know how slow it can get as soon as you
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start to amass even a small music
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library it takes a long time to open
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small actions take forever and sinking
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can take just pain fully long and a lot
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of people criticize this as Apple's
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worst software ever but there are six
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different things I'm going to show you
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today that you can do to tune it up a
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little bit and get it running at Peak
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Performance or what can be considered
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Peak for iTunes so once you have iTunes
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open here you have a couple different
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options here uh first of all if you want
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your devices to sync faster what you can
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do is you can remove the Diagnostic in
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information from sending to Apple so I
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have my device plugged in right here if
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I right click on it and click reset
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warnings and when I go to sync it right
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now it's going to give me this little
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message box here and it's going to talk
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to me about sending diagnostic
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information to Apple and if I click no
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thanks that's going to help speed up
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syncing quite a bit most people just
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click yes uh you know just kind of a
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okay whatever when when you first sync
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your device but if you click no this can
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uh speed up your syncing time CU it
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doesn't have to send all that
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information to Apple now for the next
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thing you're going to go up to the
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iTunes menu and click on preferences
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there's a couple different things you
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can do here if you click on the playback
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Tab and you uncheck Crossfade
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songs and sound enhancer although it may
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not seem like it these two options being
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unchecked can help speed up iTunes it
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doesn't have to work as hard to you know
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enhance the sound or Crossfade the songs
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and even though you might not notice a
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real big jump in performance these
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things can help especially the more your
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music library grows the next thing you
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can do is click on the devices column
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and you can check prevent iPods iPhones
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and iPads from syncing
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automatically now here's another thing
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you might be guilty of doing with your
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iOS devices if your camera roll gets
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very large this is going to dramatically
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slow down sying time because every time
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time your device backs up it backs up
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the entire camera roll so if you go
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through your camera roll and you find a
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whole bunch of pictures that you maybe
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you already have copied over your
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computer or you just don't really need
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anymore on there just deleting those
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pictures can really speed up your
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syncing time because it doesn't have to
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back up all that data and pictures take
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a while to back up another thing you can
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do is get rid of smart playlist now if
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you like smart playlist this is probably
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not something you're really going to
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want to do right away and you might be a
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little bit hesitant but especially if
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you have a ton of music and you're
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adding music a lot this is something
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that's going to help speed it up uh
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because smart playlists automatically
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update their information all the time so
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so every time iTunes opens or you add
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music or anything it has to look through
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those playlists and see if there's
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anything it needs to add to it so you
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can just right click on them and click
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delete and if you get rid of your smart
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playlists especially ones you don't use
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anymore something like that this can
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help you out uh but if you're a little
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bit you know apprehensive about getting
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rid of them you can click on edit smart
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playlist and you're going to see this
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little box here that says live updating
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and if you uncheck that it won't update
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automatically anymore but it also
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doesn't have to go through all that time
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of trying to figure out what to update
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and what to add to the playlist so
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that's something that you can do as well
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another thing you can do if you have all
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these different columns up here like I
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have name time artist album Etc let's
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say you don't really care about the
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genre if you right click on anywhere up
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in the columns here you're going to see
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a list of all the different columns that
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you can add to iTunes and let's say I
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don't really like uh looking at the
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genre I can uncheck that and now that
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column's not there anymore and let's say
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I never really look at the rating either
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so I'm going to get rid of that column
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the less columns that are here the less
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iTunes has to work with when it starts
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up every time and and the faster it will
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be so those are some handy tips you can
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use to help speed up iTunes if it's
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running slowly for you and for most
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people it probably is now if you try all
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these things out and it still doesn't
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help you a lot and you don't really
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notice a huge performance Improvement
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they're not meant to speed up iTunes you
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know 150% and cut your device syncing
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time in half these are just things you
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can do you know to maybe shave a few
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seconds off of startup time for iTunes
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cuz it notoriously takes a long time to
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start up uh just different things that
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can make the iTunes experience more
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pleasant and if you don't notice any
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speed improvements at all it's probably
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because you have a relatively small
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Library you're going to see bigger and
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bigger improvements depending on the
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size of your library so if you only have
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50 songs in there you're probably not
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going to see much of a change but if
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you're a serious music collector and you
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have thousands and thousands of songs in
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your library this can give you some
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pretty significant performance
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improvements in iTunes so I hope you
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found this video useful and thank you
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for watching
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