this just started happening in the last 2-3 months.
i open serato and everything comes up blank in terms of file info. and along the bottom it says 'reading tags' and does this for EVERY track. it takes about 8-10 minutes, then all the info is there... but it causes my computer to lag and have usb drop outs if i play a song while its doing that.

again it just started happening randomly. i went through and cleaned up, and got it down to about 6 crates. a good 30,000 songs though with one crate being 95% of that. i built overviews on them all which took a few days. same problem. if i open it up, scans all the tags. if i close it, then reopen it 5 seconds later...scans all the tags again.
i dont want to update the version yet becuase i have a wedding tomorrow and id rather update after that becuase at least it works for now, just a frustration.

important note: last time i djed with my friend, when plugging my harddrive into his computer it did the same thing. it read every file, yet it did not do that with his songs.

windows xp sp2
scratch live 1.8.0
external harddrive - western digital mybook 500g.
not using itunes.
dell xps m140


thanks