Just to clarify. This is only rebuilding the list that takes time. Using the song picker is fine.

The issue I have is that if I want to use the song picker then every time I create a new song I have to rebuild the list. This used to take a minute or two. Now it takes 10s of minutes making the song picker much less useful.

It sounds like others are suffering similar problems. John seems to have given up too, not wanting to tie up his machine for hours.

Noel's suggestion of turning stuff off sounds like it might help, but I really shouldn't have to be doing this. BIAB should do it automatically when it is "rebuild list" mode.

Actually John's suggestion is much better BIAB should only be reading the information it needs. I suspect they have just used the "load a song" rather than writing something specific and with all the new features this has become a lot slower. I've never liked the way it throws away what you are doing while it loads all the songs.

As I said at the start of this. I don't understand why BIAB can't automatically add the one new song I have just created as it is saved. Then I only have to rebuild the list if I make changes outside BIAB.

Maybe PG Music should try and get hold of Stefano Lazzaretto and ask if they can incorporate BBFinder in BIAB. It seems to be able to search thousands of file including zip file in no time.

Currently I consider the song picker to be unusable.