MC11 does audio analysis on import. The default is off now, but yours may be on. Try setting it to off.
I'm not actually "importing" the files, but that aside, exactly where is the setting that you want me to turn off? The only "analysis" I can find is the "Replay Gain" analysis, and this is unchecked.
That said, if you look at the combination of symptoms, I honestly don't think it points to a problem with extra analysis being done. Consider the following two points:
First, the issue never happens with albums ripped as VBR files -- it only happens with folders containing CBR files, and there are even "some" CBR files that don't cause this issue. If it was an "analysis" issue, the problem should be consistant, but it's not -- some folders containing larger amounts of data take only 5 seconds to display, while some "smaller" folders take over 20 seconds.
Second, if it was the "analysis" part of the process that was causing the delays, I should see similar pauses when browsing folders on the local drives, but this is not the case.
It's not hard to test your theory, however, by copying the folder mentioned above (19 songs ripped as CBR) to a local drive, and comparing the times it takes the two folders (one local and one network) to be displayed. When I browse to the folder on the local drive, it opens basically immediately -- the songs are displayed in less than one second. This demonstrates that the entire process of displaying these files -- INCLUDING the "analysis portion" of the process -- takes less than one second. If I browse to the copy of this same folder on the network drive, it takes about 23 seconds for it to open. If the analysis only takes less than one second, than the remaining 22 seconds of delay is due to something else. Given than it only takes about 10 seconds for the entire parent folder and subfolder to be copied over the network, this leaves a full 12 seconds unaccounted for. Note that I restarted the system in between the tests to make sure that there was no caching going on.
The speed issue is probably caused by files being copied from the server, modified and copied back. Audio analysis is one possibility for that.
What "modification" are you referring to. Are you saying that if I just "display" a folder (without importing or making any changes to the files), the files in this folder are actually modified? Just to let you know, I tested the process on a network folder that I do not have write permission on, and it took the same amount of time to display as a folder where I DO have write permission.
If you consider that folders ripped as VBR do NOT have this delay, it seems to imply that this is not due to the process you're describing -- i.e. if it was the process of the files being copied, analyzed, and copied back, as you say, then the delay should be "generally" consistant with all folders. Given the LARGE discrepency in the time it takes for different folders to display, however, (5 seconds for one folder compared to 23 seconds for another, both on the same network drive) it implies that there is something else going on.
Thanks again for helping get to the bottom of this,
Larry