Some additional info. Rhythmbox 0.9.8 up to date Feisty as of 24 Mar 07. 11,000 song lib on samba.
If I click in the artist part of the collection before rhythmbox starts scanning, it starts up correctly. If I leave "All" highlighted, it hangs. I have "Watch my library for new tracks" turned off but Rhythmbox is still accessing the samba share across the network during startup. It's almost as though it's the display of the albums under ALL in the right hand pane which is freezing the startup. Clicking on an artist limits this to a handful whereas ALL tries and fails to display -- Rhythmbox hang during launch https://launchpad.net/bugs/71208 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
