With about 3100 songs, I have no such hang-up. Searching could be a little faster, but it doesn't lock the program up at all. That sounds very peculiar.
Are you using a particular filesystem? Do you have your songs on a network drive or external partition? 2009/3/17 Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se>: > On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:22 +0100, Joakim Eriksson wrote: >> An user example: I have about four and a half thousand sound files in >> my library on a recently modern laptop (one year old, 2 gigabyte of >> RAM etcetera). When I begin to type a search string, already at the >> first character, Rythmbox starts to search for the specific character >> and can lock the entire program for a good 10-20 seconds or so. When >> the search is done, I can type in the rest of the characters in the >> search string. The procedure repeats itself for the rest of the >> characters, but with decreasing search time. The first character is >> the worst. > > Interesting, I have almost twice as many songs in my library, and no > such problem using search. > > There is however a bug report filed, matching your problem, but it only > mentions a "large" amount of songs. > > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536546 > > -- > Cheers, > Sven Arvidsson > http://www.whiz.se > PGP Key ID 760BDD22 > > _______________________________________________ > rhythmbox-devel mailing list > rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel > > _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel