Smart Playlists' Music Analyzer takes a

I've had various versions of MediaSource for about fi've years, but I've just recently tried using the smart playlist functions.
I ran the once-off music analyzer tool for volume and tempo on my collection of ~8000 mp3/wma files. This took a lot longer than I had bargained for. My PC is from late 200 but it's not ridiculously slow. IT TOOK 3.5 DAYS. It's a P4 .66GHz with 52Mb RAM running XP SP2. I had stopped all unnecessary processes for this, and even removed my wallpaper to save RAM (although I don't think RAM is the issue as the analyzer seems to only process one file at a time).
Is this normal?
ThanksMessage Edited by duffmagic on 03-2-200604:47 PM

highice wrote:
Hi,
I have tried running that tool too with no luck i'm afraid.
I have a collection of around 6000 MP3S/WAVS
It takes ages to run on my machine, and processes one track at a time. AMD X2 3800, 2GB ram, 2X7800gt's SLI, SB Audigy 2ZS, Raptor sys Dri've.
It gets about Half way through and just stops, after restarting pc you can resume scanning from the last track processed, I was happy when I saw this. It was a short li'ved happiness however, I hit the resume button and it resumed into the paused/crashed state it was originally in before the restart. NICE.
I could always uninstall, reinstall, run it again, sit staring at the screen until it gets to the same point, note the offending file, remove or rencode the offending file, hope no more files offend it or will have to uninstall/reinstall again, then resume scanning............... Sod it I think I can li've without it :-)
not much help sorry, more of an opinion
What is the version of your Creative MediaSource?

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