Rhythmbox takes for ever to load library

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

Mike wrote:

>I have about 26GB of music that Rhythmbox takes about 10 mins to load.
>Are you having it search the entire drive or just the specific folder?
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>-Mike
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>On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 10:06, Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic -
>Java System Software - Sun Microsystems wrote:
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>>I'm trying to get Rhythmbox to load my music library from a FAT32 
>>partition - it's about 6 GB of WMA and MP3 files. It appears to take 
>>forever. It's been showing the "Loading songs..." message for the better 
>>part of an hour now. The status indicator is moving back and forth so it 
>>doesn't appear to be hung.
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>>Should it take this long?
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>>/POL
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I think I found the explanation, courtesy of Google - apparently there 
are problems with importing songs when there are WMA files present. It 
also appears Rhythmbox can't handle WMA files (it plays them but can't 
catalog them) so it won't be useful for me anyway. Back when I had a 
portable player with too little memory I converted everything to WMA to 
save space. Now, converting it all back to MP3 is probably not feasible.

/POL
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