I have the "Enable Library" option enabled but it seems like every couple of days the library is rebuilt even though I haven't added/deleted/changed anything in my music library. It's like the library isn't actually being used. Version 3.02 but its been happening pretty much ever since the library …

Why do you think that? What is happening exactly?

When I start up MP3Tag, it always show the reading tag data and it takes a long time to complete. [image] I can always tell when the library is being used because it only takes a few seconds to read the tag data vs 2 or 3 minutes. Something is triggering a rebuild of the library even though there …

Chances are you haven't noticed the library's speed improvement so far. There are 2 requirements to use the library at full speed. It must be activated in Tools -> Library. Windows Defender as an antivirus application must not be active for Mp3Tag. For this you should define an exception for …

poster: 1. I do have the Library activated under Tools. 2. I am not using Windows Defender. I can say for sure that the loading of files is extremely fast if I don't reboot the computer, as the cache is being used. I also notice that even after a reboot, loading is fast, BUT after a few days the…

[image] bgregory: I do have the Library activated under Tools. Despite of this there will always be a difference in speed with or without filled cache. Are you using a network drive as source?

No. Its an SSD. What I am seeing is sometimes it is very fast BUT later (I haven't been able to determine when or what causes it) the speed is definitely the same as if I delete the .DB3 file and recreate it. It's that slow.

[image] bgregory: Is the .DB3 file SQLite? Yes. (And I add this text because a simple "yes" is not accepted by the forum software. :wink:)

[image] bgregory: I will monitor this and reply back here when I have more definitive results. Are you absolutely sure that no change was made to your files in the meantime? Like a backup software setting/deleting a not so obvious attribute to your files? Or some kind of indexing software, …

[image] bgregory: the speed is definitely the same as if I delete the .DB3 file and recreate it. Which amount of files are we talking of? I just made a test with 20.000 files which reside on a normal harddisk (not SSD), a rather old PC and a disabled library. The first reading took 4:15 min…

I have one library configured called Music. There are 2397 .MP3 files and various .jpg files which are created by Windows Media Player 12 which I have used for years. None of the .MP3 files have changed (or their attributes). It takes around 41 seconds to build the .DB3 file and about 3 seconds …

Library is always updated

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LyricsLover September 23, 2020, 3:16pm 13

What about some WMP influence like this: