Processing large number of track files

[proj964]

I have a large number >10000 tracks to process. They are in a directory structure of music>artist>album>track(s).
However they are being read is very slow -- minutes. Is it possible that they are more efficient/faster interfaces that could be used?

[ohrenkino]

See e.g. this thread:

Sluggish performance

Couldn't you supply some real benchmarks? Like: how long does it (really) take to read the file? I just tried to read some 200.000 files from an external USB3.0 HDD and it took 10 minutes, 55 seconds if MP3tag resides on the same external drive 8 minutes, 59 seonds if MP3tag resides on the internal SSD. It becomes 6 minutes 43 seconds if MP3tag resides on an internal SSD and the data also on an internal HDD. It looks to me like you can expect to read some 20.000 files/minute.

[LyricsLover]

Something to consider in addition to the internal/external SSD/HHD and antivirus-tools used:

How big are your files?
Loading 200'000 small 128 kbit/s mp3 files takes much less time than 200'000 huge WAV files.