I’m not sure it’s just album covers doing it. This time it froze for 4 days (since my last post) and I gave up and rebooted. I tried clicking on Artists and Albums, and it was slow to load covers but not that slow. I ran “top” on SSL, and CPU didn’t get past 50%, with a minimum 25M free in memory.
I then went to Settings and reset my album covers, Save, then clicked on Artist. CPU went as high as 91% briefly, but then back down. It’s (alphabetically) filling in all of the album covers without freezing. It only took a few minutes to load all of the album covers. I then clicked Album and had similar results (noticed 70% CPU max, 29M memory free min). Also only took a few minutes. Then I’m down to 1-2% CPU, still 29M memory free (475M total).
The next step is to replicate what makes it fail - maybe taking the USB out, adding some music, plugging it back in, rescanning, waiting for it to finish, then clicking Album. I’ll post back here when I find time to do that.
Here’s a clip of after I clicked to reload album covers then clicked Artists:
