yeah that's the same issue i'm having, and it's really similar to the upstream bug, banshee is 'really' slow to import a huge amount of music, for me it's random: sometimes it crashes and other it just hang for ever.
** Also affects: banshee via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=569221 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: banshee (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to banshee in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779621 Title: Banshee hangs every ~3000 songs starting at #7000 when importing 13238 songs collection Status in Banshee Music Player: Unknown Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: banshee When trying to import a 13238 songs collection from the ~/Music folder into Banshee, it hangs using 3 CPUs of 4 on a i5 680 quad-core 3.6 GHz system. It imports fine until it reaches somewhere around 7000 songs, then it hangs for a few minutes turningf gray, it resumes until reaching 10893 songs, then resumes again and keeps hanging occasionally, increasingly often. Most songs are ripped FLAC and OGA, with few MP3s. I am attaching two screenshots, running Natty (64 bit) with all updates. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: banshee 2.0.0-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun May 8 16:42:04 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20110315) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: banshee UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/banshee/+bug/779621/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp