Rhythmbox hangs when reading my music from a directory

[volvoguy]

> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 11:27:20 +0200, Bastian Doetsch
> > <bastian.doetsch at gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > i have the effect, that rhythmbox starts hanging, not adding any
> > > additional music files to its database after a certain amount of time.
> > > Is this behaviour already known? Is there a workaround available?

I had a problem like this when I was using an older machine and
accessing my files via SMB on another machine (also relatively slow).
I asked the Rhythmbox dev folks and they said that by default,
Rhythmbox rescans your whole music collection at startup - but that
was a slow process in my case (about 6000 songs). They suggested that
once my library had been built once, I run the application with a flag
to not rescan the library during startup.

"You can pass --no-update."

This isn't an issue for me anymore as I'm using Ubuntu on a really
fast PC, but you might want to try it once and see if it helps
anything.

Aaron