Playing iTunes = Death

Alonzo Mosley said:

I am going to add the information about the leaks to my Insider Feedback ticket; anything else in any of these diagnostics y'all recommend I share?

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Not particularly, there isn't much else you could do from your side without access to the source code and a debugger.

I have had a similar issue, running either the Microsoft Store or iTunes download in Windows 11. The iTunes application grabs as much VRAM as it can then locks up. For Bonus Points, if iTunes is maximized it locks up the whole laptop. I have tried almost every tip and trick to fix this with no luck. I then looked at what was using the most resources and found that a service that runs a scheduled defrag of my hard disk was running as well. I stopped the service, and the resources were reduced, and iTunes would behave. I navigated to my C: drive, Tools and Optimize and Defrag Drive. I unselected scheduled optimization and I have not had the problem since. iTunes was the only application that would do this while Scheduled Defrag was running.

Interesting! I've been under the gun too much to worry about this. I did try again with the new Insider Update and it's still facacte.

I always run pretty much everything in Maximized (except for Windows Explorer, why won't it learn?!?), so hadn't noticed that distinction.

I have a Surface with an SSD, so there's no defrag running, but maybe there's something else. What did you check? Just Task Manager=>Processes=>Sort on CPU?

I may play with this during the Seahawks game on Sunday. In the meantime, @RastaStarry , would you add your feedback to my open ticket on the Windows Feedback Hub? (Or at least upvote it?)

I installed Build 22631.2338 yesterday, and have been playing iTunes with only one observable issue for 96 minutes. (Recall when I was having trouble, I'd start having display issues at around the 25 minute mark, and complete system failure at 45).

The only issue - and it could be totally unrelated - while working in another program (either Outlook or Word), a black rectangle flashed across the top of the screen. Just once. Weird, but I can live with this.

Thanks everyone for your help. We'll just presume Windows put some epoxy over whatever was leaking, and get on with our days.

So much time wasted, though! (On this, and on trying to get MusicBee set up as a good alternative; at best, I'd give it a B-).

Thank you