Opening directory with 500 mp3s takes almost two minutes!

[hiohio]

Whereas VLC gets the job done in less than a second!

Something is definitely wrong here, any suggestions?
Machine is 1.73GHz Pentium M, 2GB RAM. Filesystem is ext4.

You can get legal torrent with the same music from here:
http://sites.google.com/site/sxswtorrent/2009

[rvm]

Be sure the option "automatically get info about files" in the playlist's preferences is disabled. That option is very slow.

[hiohio]

It is still unacceptably slow, I do not notice much improvement.
I even restarted SMPlayer after unchecking that playlist option:

[rvm]

You didn't uncheck the option I told you:

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That's in the preferences window inside the playlist.

[hiohio]

Oh.
I didn't expect to find that option in there, I thought Options > Playlist only affects the current playlist. I wonder how many people think like me? This could be an usability issue, why should global options be scattered around different locations like that? What's the benefit?

[rvm]

You're right. That's because the current code of the playlist is a mess...

By the way, did it work?

[hiohio]

Yes. It did work, it is as fast as VLC now then opening huge directories.