I have a large database of music files, 107586 at last count. When I open Mp3Tag, it reads tag data for a long, long time. I would suggest changing from re-reading the entire database to identifying changes made since the last "save" and updating only those files. There should be a way to establis…

Enable the library option, mp3tag will load much faster. See here for a similar request. [image] Reading directory faster Support hi, i have a large collection in a folder, it take a good while for mp3tag to open it. i like to know if there is a way to speed up this proc…

Did. Not noticeable effect on a file of this size, which I also have. He has 14000, I have 107K, and I can have dinner while it comes up to operable.

See here for some numbers and times: [image] Sluggish performance Support 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 seco…

[image] Windows Defender - Speed of loading files in MP3Tag General Discussion In the past I already noticed that the antivirus-software of windows-defender slows down the loading speed of files in MP3Tag dramatically: At this time my third-party antivirus-software (A…

[image] MotleyG: Enable the library option, mp3tag will load much faster. [image] Johnk860: Did. Not noticeable effect on a file of this size, which I also have. There were only a few minutes between these two posts, so I doubt that the benefit of the library could have been observed, …

The library needs to be created on the first run, after enabling the feature. This will take some time, especially on larger libraries. But the time saved in the future is well worth the effort. My library of just over 25k files (a mix of mp3 and lossless hi-res) opens in under 12s every time. Gran…

Re-Reading large databases on startup takes a lot of time

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MotleyG June 4, 2023, 1:54am 2

Enable the library option, mp3tag will load much faster.

See here for a similar request.