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File, Add folder takes hours

Hello,
Been a big fan of foobar for a very long time now, and have yet to find anything else half as good, however I recently installed windows 8 from 7 and I am having problems loading my music which mainly consists of flac files. What use to take less than a minute now can take hours and sometimes seems to get halfway and then start up again loading from scratch? this is weird . My music is not a big collection being some 7000 or so files which are all in one folder on d drive. I am running foobar 1.2.1 Can anyone help.

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #1
Loading the library or a playlist?

Does the console (view->console) give you any indication of the issue?
elevatorladylevitateme

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #2
Loading the library or a playlist?

Does the console (view->console) give you any indication of the issue?

I Have always clicked file then add folder
could not enumerate tracks (Object not found) on:
D:\my music\Music\1-04 David Guetta feat. Usher - Without You.
I did delete this one earlier cos it was duplicated

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #3
So not using Media Library then?

If you want to remove all bad files:
Edit > Remove dead items.
Windows 10 Pro x64 // foobar2000 1.3.10

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #4
So not using Media Library then?

If you want to remove all bad files:
Edit > Remove dead items.

yes I am using media library which is currently monitoring my file/folder path. But is this the answer to my problem one being load time.
I have never tried removing dead items incase it deleted something it shouldn't, but I will give it a go and see if any changes occur.

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #5
So not using Media Library then?

If you want to remove all bad files:
Edit > Remove dead items.

yes I am using media library which is currently monitoring my file/folder path. But is this the answer to my problem one being load time.
I have never tried removing dead items incase it deleted something it shouldn't, but I will give it a go and see if any changes occur.

WOW thank you so much Andreasvb I did the Edit remove dead items and it worked new playlist loaded in about 2 min, great! Solved.

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #6
Playlists are static.
Unless you make Autoplaylists, those uses the library.

Great that it was solved.
Windows 10 Pro x64 // foobar2000 1.3.10

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #7
Playlists are static.
Unless you make Autoplaylists, those uses the library.

Great that it was solved.

How do I make autoplaylists, and if I add new tracks to my music folder will foobar sense this automatically or do I have to deete the playlist and add the music folder again like I have been doing all this time 

File, Add folder takes hours

Reply #8
The very purpose of an autoplaylist is to automatically add/remove items when files change in the folder.

For example, go to Library > Search, type something, then click the [...] button, and select Create Autoplaylist, or [...] for more options.

You'll find a lot of information if you search the forums a little.