and as your music could be anywhere on any of your drives, it has to spin them up to check. Just because your library is on the internal drive, it does not necessarily follow that the actual tracks are there too.
You will find that it does the same thing if you open a document, in Word for example, and then choose "Save As" when the drives are not spinning.
You will not be able to do anything until all the drives have come ready.
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Hi!
I have half a dozen network drives mapped on my PC (all from a local NAS), and the disks themselves are often powered down if I haven't used them for a while. I have all my iTunes library and media on my local disk, but when I open iTunes it seems to want to check all my network drives for something.........ie it spins them all up and takes a long time to load! Can anyone explain what the problem could be?
I might add that I did try just disconnecting from the network, opening iTunes, and then reconnecting to the network. iTunes opened quickly enough as it should, but when I reconnected to the network it soon decided to spin up the drives for some reason, arrrrghhh!!

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