OhPinchy;336522 Wrote: > I have several thousand tracks and MP3Tag is proving extremely slow to > use with them - it takes ages to load, over an hour just to delete the > old tags and then ages again to save any changes. > > At this rate it will take weeks to update my tags - is there anything I > can do to speed this up?
Try loading on 'as needed' bases. Dir after a dir at the time. Now, for the updating lag - is it happening again and again with the same tracks, or it is like that only the first time the certain track is updated. You probably can no know if you load your whole library at the time. I suggest you do the test. Rip a new album, store it in the separate folder, change some tags - there might be some lag. Change some more tags again and update tracks - no lag should be there. Reason it behaves like that is that some ripping software stores initial tags at incorrect places in the file, so mp3tag needs to read the whole file, reorganize it and write it to the disk again. If this is a case I suggest changing your ripping software. To give you some performance idea, I use fairly old and weak PC. To load 8000 tracks it takes about 5 minutes. Updates are instantaneous. I load my whole library only in rare occasions if I'm reorganizing everything or I need to sort by some tag to make sure I'm consistent in my tagging. K -- slimkid Where does the light go when you turn the switch off? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAj2aPdQnk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvMNuuFSvN0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRhRv4q_SI http://youtube.com/watch?v=nlrpe8Ig5m8 http://youtube.com/watch?v=dC9tGlwPln8 ATGATT: Because walking away in disgust beats riding away in an ambulance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimkid's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8881 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51977 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
