Best version of older iTunes to a cell phone with big external hard drive?

I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 (circa 2007), I would like to use with my stereo to serve music from an external hard drive 1 TB.  The Dell has an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.5 Ghz and 2.00 memory of concert, with Windows 7 (64 bit) operating system.  You want to keep software compatible with the vintage of the material but with enough ability to index a concert music library 500 +.  It is a standalone function for this machine.  What version of iTunes would go faster on this hardware and still have the ability to manage a large playlist?

Thank you.

The latest version of iTunes (12.3.2) should be fine.  My only concern would be the one with 2 GB of memory you pouvez experience some performance issues with an important library (where the key factor is the number of items in the library rather than the disk storage they occupy).  Additionally, you may experience glitches reading occasional and/or slow when responses to changes in your library if the connection of the laptop and external hard drive USB2.0 rather than 3.0, especially if current to run a web browser or other applications in resources at the same time.

However, earlier versions of iTunes are not likely to be significantly different in their behavior or performance (and some, indeed, could be worse).  My main iTunes system is a desktop Dell of the same vintage (though with hard drives and power supply replaced in the past two years)-running Windows 10 Pro 32 - bit with 4 GB of memory (3.25 GB usable) and works fine with the latest version of iTunes.

I would certainly recommend ensuring that your library is all about external drive (see time user turingtest2 on do a split cell library for more information) and that you create and maintain an up-to-date backup of it (see backup your iTunes for Windows with SyncToy library).

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