A while back I decided to try and fully embrace 'The Mac Way' and use iTunes to listen to my music/update my iPod/browse podcasts/etc. So I fired it up, told it to catalogue my music collection and sat back hoping to be listening to Ben Folds within minutes.

Hmmmm...

It's now six weeks later and it finished processing about 10 minutes ago. During those 6 weeks, it was completely unusable while it tried to 'determine gapless playback information'. While it was waiting, I found out how you prevent it from doing this but that has to be done before you start.

Six weeks. Six. Weeks.

To be fair, it probably doesn't expect your music collection to be quite so large or – and this is where I think the problem is – live on a server on the other side of the world.

Still, it's done now. I just need to make sure I never add any more music ever.