That's really strange. Decoding speed has greatly improved when using gstreamer 0.10. Of course it depends on your system but on mine decoding a single track takes seconds, a CD takes a minute tops.
And since it's not something I can improve, because it depends on gstreamer and not serpentine, I think I'll close it with a 'wontfix'. Thanks for the bug report anyways. -- Serpentine is extremely slow at decoding mp3 https://launchpad.net/bugs/49202 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs