Hey xevix, It seems that on Amarok startup, if there are any playlist tracks that are from the ipod, instead of reading the ipod db, the actual file metadata is read and is waaay slow. This is especially the case if you have a few thousand ipod tracks in the playlist. Could you please take a look at this? Thanks! Seb -- Seb Ruiz http://www.sebruiz.net/ http://amarok.kde.org/