To access music and video in iTunes, I use RB's ability to generate user-defined menus from applescript, rather than the normal RB menu. (That's for a number of reasons: I don't like the way the RB menu handles TV shows, and I don't like the way it sorts songs when browsing music, and I don't like the album art/video still previews that pop up and slow down the menu.) I have an applescript that generates a text file listing all my music and video, in a format RB can parse when generating a menu.

When I open Activity Monitor, I see the amount of real RAM used by RB creep up steadily every time I invoke or navigate the menu. When I first start RB it uses about 18 MB of RAM; after a few hours of fiddling with the menu it was up to 125 MB.

I also started to see video stuttering when watching iTunes 7.5 and EyeTV 2.5 in full-screen... so the menu may be affecting the system's video memory as well. (I haven't installed the developer tools since upgrading to Leopard so I can't use that Quartz utility to check video memory usage.)

I can email the scripts I'm using so this can be investigated. (But don't email me at my login email (aol), I very rarely use it.)

Last edited: 03.12.2007 18:05:03