I have had the same problem that was never really solved. My library and database is on a NAS unit and takes an eternity (longer than yours) to actually start. MM3 was a virtual instant startup whereas MM4 starts on plate tectonic times. I have three machines all accessing the music so a completely shared system is perfect. Having three separate setuups is just so much faff.

Despite the MM teams (and I do love them all) claims that MM4 is significantly faster than MM3 the problem was never solved.

Full screenshot of MediaMonkey window. not just part of status bar showing reading files

So what did you really want? Use little words

My Bad, I thought that will make Full Pic Showing Whole MM Main Window

But What I asked is what I got

Ok, that was a little premature. I woke today to launch MM and was greeted by the annoying "Reading Files..." bit that took about 15 seconds to run before I could play songs. Isn't there anyone in an official capacity readingthese posts?

Here's a pic.

It's fixed! I deleted the .m3u files and now it works like I just drove it off the show room floor.

I know we may sound annoying, can you please make screenshot of MM While Showing Reading Files on Startup?

Send me link on PM if you do not want it public.

Damn if that didn't seem to do the trick. Got rid of all my m3u lists and back to normal it went.

Grrr.... when are we going to get pls support?

I had an issue with this when I had a bunch of .m3u playlists scattered around my music collection (most had improper links in them as well). Once I removed these playlists, MediaMonkey opened much quicker.

I have done so. Thanks for the direction!

Send a debug log (step 4b) to support: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69

I use Diskeeper. It continuously keeps my hard drive defragged (that's a funny word). I had to wait 22 seconds just now to get into MM.

Can't someone 'official' help me out here? This is damn annoying.

smellhole wrote:Same hard drive that doesn't give me any problems with anything else. Just this.

You might try a defrag just in case.

Same hard drive that doesn't give me any problems with anything else. Just this.

Could just be a slow hard drive. I used to have that issue on my laptop (laptops have notoriously slow spinning hard drives) before I upgraded to an SSD. Now I never see that message anymore.