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Rhythmbox is espacially slow.  Using gdb to trace a recent bug I found
that  rhythmbox is launching  a new  thread each  time you  change the
Artist selection in  Artist view. I don't think this is  a good way to
do. Using threads better and  stop launching/exiting them all the time
would probably save a lot of time.