rhythmbox hangs, freezes after launch, start, it takes long till ready to play

[tellapu]

After launching rhythmbox 2.90.1 in Ubuntu 11.10 (AMD64) it would show the rhythmbox screen, but it freezes for more than 10 minutes, so the loading till you can play a song takes a long time. The CPU usage goes up sharply and drops after the freeze is over.
If the database is empty the starting of Ubuntu takes only seconds, but I have about 5000 titles in the database, so it takes more than 10 minutes. I had no problem in Ubuntu 10.10 (i386), rhythmbox started quickly and had no problems with the 5000 songs.

When I start rhythmbox in the terminal with "rhythmbox -d", I get the output* I have attached. I think the hanging/freezing comes from the repetitive similar line, probably 5000 times :
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_stat_event] rhythmdb.c:2143: not modified: file:///home/cds/Music/Christian%20Music%20English/N-P/Newsboys/Shine%20the%20Hits/Newsboys%20-%20Reality.mp3
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_one_event] rhythmdb.c:2504: processing RHYTHMDB_EVENT_STAT
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_stat_event] rhythmdb.c:2143: not modified: file:///home/cds/Music/Christian%20Music%20English/N-P/Newsboys/Shine%20the%20Hits/Newsboys%20-%20Spirit%20Thing.mp3
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_one_event] rhythmdb.c:2504: processing RHYTHMDB_EVENT_STAT
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_stat_event] rhythmdb.c:2143: not modified: file:///home/cds/Music/Christian%20Music%20English/N-P/Newsboys/Shine%20the%20Hits/Newsboys%20-%20God%20Is%20Not%20A%20Secret.mp3
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_one_event] rhythmdb.c:2504: processing RHYTHMDB_EVENT_STAT
(13:19:12) [0xd5e200] [rhythmdb_process_stat_event] rhythmdb.c:2143: not modified: file:///home/cds/Music/Christian%20Music%20English/N-P/Newsboys/Shine%20the%20Hits/Newsboys%20-%20Joy.mp3

Not sure why it does this, but perhaps somebody can help. Thanks.
I deactivated all plugins and "watch my library for new files".

*I reduced the database to some songs only, so rhythmbox would start quickly. The list with the above mentioned pattern "processing RHYTHMDB_EVENT_STAT" of is short, normally it would go through all 5000 songs!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: rhythmbox 2.90.1~20110908-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 21 14:56:55 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
SourcePackage: rhythmbox
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[tellapu (tellapu)]

Bump!

[tellapu (tellapu)]

It seems that with the new version 2.95 of rhythmbox, it is better.

[tellapu (tellapu)]

But it is sad that I did not hear anything for months!