GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 738723
Rhythmbox extremely slow doing anything with database
Last modified: 2014-10-18 22:19:18 UTC
Since upgrade to 3.1, rhythmbox uses a lot of processor and takes a lot of time (sometimes ~30 seconds) to load my library after the application launches. Searches also take a while and freeze the interface while processing. Simply clearing a search takes ~20 seconds for rhythmbox to respond and show the full library.
What version were you using before, and did you just upgrade rhythmbox, or the entire desktop at the same time?
I upgraded from 3.0.3-1 in Debian testing, which was lightning fast. The upgraded to rhythmbox 3.1 was part of a dist-upgrade of the entire GNOME stack. This problem occurs whether there is an upgrade or a fresh install of the OS.
Commit c8cda37 in at-spi2-atk fixes this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 728319 ***