Comment 18 for bug 1398614

The recent 0.111 release in xenial and the Ubuntu Phone vivid overlay should improve things somewhat:

1. we are using taglib directly for scanning of music files (videos still go through GStreamer).

2. batch index updates during the "initial scan" phase when the daemon starts up or removable media is mounted, resulting in fewer flushes.

While this might not reduce CPU usage much (although it probably will while scanning music), it reduced flushes should make it play better with other IO on the system. It seems a lot less intrusive when I let it rescan my music collection from scratch.