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Direct - it's a Freecom 400GB drive. I suspect either fragmentation, some inner device check thingy that OSX is doing or something to do with spinning up/down hard disks.
Copying the music library to the Mac hard drive fixes the choppy playback issue (but means I have to have all that music on my hard disk now - ho hum)
ITunes\Preferences\Advanced theres a Streaming Buffer Size.
Could this be what your looking for?
My library is on an external HHD and I have this set to Medium and I don't get any issues.
I have mine set to max, doesn't seem to help.
Shall copy the library to the local hard drive overnight and try again tomorrow, see if its the USB drive causing the issue. Might as well fill this lovely half a TB with something!
Just got me a new Mac, pointed iTunes at my music library on an external USB disk, and playback is really choppy - some good 2-3 second pauses in the middle of songs.
I have unchecked the "keep my collection organised" option, which seems to help, and also the "put hard disks to sleep" option in Preferences. But I'm still getting choppiness.
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