Hi,

Just recently I've experienced rather long loading times for amaroK, which are ~minute length.
there is no obvious disk activity or cpu usage peaks during that time.

my database consists of ~4200 songs, which would mare around 390-400 albums I guess (around 99% of them having album covers)

Could the album covers cause the slowdown?

edit: doh, forgot to mention, using amarok 1.4.5, in kubuntu, if that matters

edit2: hmhm, apparently my hd is rather silent, there is, after all, quite much of disk activity when amarok starts, and cpu usage does jump up quite a bit (had to see that with systemguard).

You could try to start Amarok from a terminal to see what's happening.

malix@Talvi:~$ amarok > amarok.txt
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode:  147
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode:  147
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode:  147
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 169
  Major opcode:  147
  Minor opcode:  3
  Resource id:  0x0
Failed to open device
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80989a8 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout "unnamed" added to QVBox "unnamed", which already has a layout
kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::insertKAccel( kaccel = 0x80989a8 ): KAccel object already contains an action name "play_pause"
QLayout: Adding KToolBar/mainToolBar (child of QVBox/unnamed) to layout for PlaylistWindow/PlaylistWindow


that X Error happens with everything I launch from terminal, so it was to be expected (and since everything works, doesnt bother me  )

and what comes to the rest of it, I don't see anything too dramatic, but I'm not the pro here, wouldn't be asking othervice