Quote Originally Posted by Firetongue
This is ugly.

What is the state of "Store thumbnails in the database" checkbox? Try to turn it off and compact database.

Do you hear hard drive "churning" when this happens? Do you have enough free space on the drive? Windows tend to fragment files wildly when there is not enough space - and that can make OrangeCD slow.

Andrei
Yes it is unchecked. And I've compacted.
129GB of free space on my hard drive..
..ah, but only 4.8GB of 232GB on the external drive thst holds most of the mp3s in my database. But no churning & media monkey works fine when playing them.