Rhythmbox is unresponsive for first 10 minutes while scanning a new music library

[Andrew]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

This is what I did:

1) Delete ~\Music.
2) Plug in my MP3 player, which contains about 1,000 songs.
3) When prompted, choose to open Rhythmbox.
4) In Edit -> Preferences -> Music, change the Library Location to ~/akorg✽/music✽/library✽, which contains about 25,000 songs.

Rhythmbox became unresponsive due to near-100% CPU usage about thirty seconds after I changed the location of the media library, and before I could even close the Preferences screen. After about 10 minutes (the time it took me to start submitting this bug report), the process's CPU usage dropped to a low level and the interface became responsive again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rhythmbox 0.13.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 17 09:55:41 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace of the freeze following the instructions at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for rhythmbox (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Andrew (andrewkvalheim)]

This isn't happening anymore in Ubuntu 12.04.