Try mounting the file system where your music collection is with the
"noatime" attribute. This can lead to significant performance
improvements.  See http://www.faqs.org/docs/securing/chap6sec73.html
for details.

To check this out, do this as root:

chattr -R +A <path to your music collection>

e.g.

chattr -R +A /data/mymusic (or whatever)

This will prevent Linux from updating the access times of all the files
and directories it encounters in the scan, with a significant
performance gain.

If this works (and it should), then modify your /etc/fstab entry for
the filesystem containing your music to include the "noatime"
attribute.  See the above webpage for more details.


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