the following low-tech solution worked in my case: in tools - preferences - search uncheck jamendo. what a relief and joy after months of suffering!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of AIMS, which is subscribed to a duplicate bug report (1309653). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1343621 Title: Searching the library is extremely slow Status in clementine package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Searching within the library from the text search box takes tens of seconds, where with previous versions (in 12.04) it was almost instant. It seems to be discussed here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic /clementine-bugs/_GSs5XMbI-k Seems to be a change in sqlite has brought this about. The workaround in message https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clementine- bugs/_GSs5XMbI-k/P8NJw2J_AUIJ does fix it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: clementine 1.2.0+dfsg-2build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-32.57-generic 3.13.11.4 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Thu Jul 17 17:35:12 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-11 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: clementine UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clementine/+bug/1343621/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aims Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aims More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

