itunes freezing

All, I installed High Sierra (10.13.3) a few weeks ago on my 2 year old Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H (v 1.2)/i5-4690K/Intel HD Integrated Graphics 4600 build. I did a clean install to a new AData 480GB SSD (APFS file system). Things have been perfectly fine until last night I plugged an iPod Nano in...