Hard drive grinding when closing SonicStage

[guyj1]

My hard drive grinds away for several minutes after closing SS 3.3. Even with a small library of not more than 100 converted music files. I do not use the program to access my entire collection and just import music folders I want to transfer to my MD. Has anyone else had this problem? I recently had the previous version of SS on and it did not do this.

I also use MMJB for my mp3 collection and as much a system hog as it is, it closes very cleanly on a library of 1000's of MP3's.

Why is it grinding the drive so hard during shutdown, is it backing up the library? Is there a parameter I can change to stop this behavior?

[guyj1]

This is about the third time recently I've posted a question and not gotten any reply. I may as well unsub and go ask my questions directly to Sony.

This forum has become a shadow of what it used to be in years past...

[KrazyIvan]

This is the first time I see your post. Don't know why. I can't say for sure since I have SS 3.2. I would delete your temp files for starters then optimize the database. I am not at my home computer right now so I can't give you exact directions. Some looking around in the menu's or searching the help database within SS should turn up instructions on how to do it.

After that a defrag of your hard drive would not hurt either.

[The Low Volta]

This is about the third time recently I've posted a question and not gotten any reply. I may as well unsub and go ask my questions directly to Sony.

This forum has become a shadow of what it used to be in years past...

hmm...dex has responded to both your threads... like here but one time when dex posed a question for further info you never responded yourself... go easy on the 'nasty/angry remarks' please (especially when they aren't really true)... we wouldn't want this forum to become less friendly

[guyj1]

This is the first time I see your post. Don't know why. I can't say for sure since I have SS 3.2. I would delete your temp files for starters then optimize the database. I am not at my home computer right now so I can't give you exact directions. Some looking around in the menu's or searching the help database within SS should turn up instructions on how to do it.

After that a defrag of your hard drive would not hurt either.

Thanks for the response KrazyIvan, I don't think it is a fragmented hard drive issue because I defrag every few weeks. The drive my MP3's are on is exclusively for MP3's and there has not been much new written to the drive since it was last defragged.

Regarding optimizing the SS library, what does this do? I don't want SS touching my organized MP3 folders other than accessing the MP3's for transfer to my MD. I have spent way too many years getting the folders organized and the ID3's updated just the way I like. That is why I only have less than 100 songs at a time in my SS library. I export M3U playlists from MMJB into SS when I want to load a MD. The library only shows the contents of 2-3 M3U playlists/MD's at any one time.

[KrazyIvan]

It does not touch anything outside of SS cotrolled environment. Your MP3's are safe. SS actually creates temp files every time you transfer an MP3 file to MD. Those files are not cleaned up after they are written to MD. Even if you have a small library the files are still written each and everytime you transfer. You may have built up a lot of temp files over time.

As far as I know the optimization just compresses the SS data files to save space. It does not mess with your MP3 library. I have a seperate drive for my MP3's also and they are untouched as far as the directory tree on my drive is concerned.

EDIT* I forgot to add something. I have an app that can help you track files on your hard drive visually. It helps when you want to identify files for backup or deletion. I can't remember the name right now but I will post it later. Run that just to see the files by type on your drive and be amazed at how many .oma/.omj files you have (or whatever the extension is.)