I haven't found a way to disable all of the various iTunes helper processes that want to run in the background (short of turning them off in services.msc) so it only gets updated and run when absolutely necessary.
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I seem to remember installing some custom firmware on the iPod specifically so I could just treat it like an external drive and manage the media on it via Winamp or Mediamonkey or some other program that had no business doing a better job at handling an iPod than something straight from Apple.Įven now I just use it maybe once or twice a year to back up and update my old iPad 2. I can almost understand this on the newer versions since they've made it a sort of one-stop-shop for playing media, managing iOS devices, shopping for media and software, and sorting your content databases.īut the older versions I used back when I had a "classic" iPod were just terrible and all I did with that was load music onto the iPod. My main computer is no dog either (i7, 16GB RAM, SSD, yadda yadda) and compared to other media player/managers it really is a poor performer. To continue the mostly-irrelevant story time, I've installed it a few times and generally it works OK now but it is still quite slow for what it is.