iTunes crashes when seeking to new cd track

so i'm running itunes 10.4.1 in os x 10.6.8, also using the last.fm plugin for scrobbling, and every time i play a cd through itunes, when the next cd track automatically begins, or if i seek to a new track, itunes crashes.

it seems to be quite difficult to re-install itunes (?) from everything that i am reading and i'm only finding one 5 year old thread reporting this issue, so i'm wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.

help me watmm you're my only hope!

Why would you listen to CDs on your computer?

because i have an extensive (800+) cd collection and consider it a waste of space and time to rip everything i own to mp3/flac

I always get iTunes "organizing" my files every time I burn a cd. I almost never add new music but it does this ever time now.

Have you disabled the scrobbling client? Try to pin it on that, first. Shit's buggy, yo.

Switch to foobar.

itunes is the worst piece of software ever written, switch to something else

  On 8/31/2011 at 9:49 PM, yanG said:

itunes is the worst piece of software ever written

  On 8/31/2011 at 9:49 PM, yanG said:

itunes is the worst piece of software ever written, switch to something else

Also this.

Get yourself a proper CD player hooked up to a nice system and problem is solved.

Whats a CD and why would you play it in iTunes without importing as aiff/mp3?

yeah, it was the last.fm plugin wreaking some sort of havoc, once i deleted it everything's fine.

as far as "why itunes", i dunno.. is there a good alternative in os x? i don't have an ipod so the value of syncing doesn't exist.

i also was a sceptic with itunes, hated it in windows, but when its running on osx its beautiful, a whole different beast altogether.

  On 8/31/2011 at 8:39 PM, Root5 said:

Switch to foobar.

yeah.... kind of not available in os x. i'm open to suggestions though..

Is it definitely an iTunes thing? Have you tried playing the cd in any other program, or opening any files off a data cd to see if it's the drive? It probably is the program, but worth checking that.

  On 9/1/2011 at 4:21 PM, KY said:

Is it definitely an iTunes thing? Have you tried playing the cd in any other program, or opening any files off a data cd to see if it's the drive? It probably is the program, but worth checking that.

it's fixed now, it was the last.fm plugin which was causing some sort of problem.