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@trincowski I was going to mention that.

@MovingSounds
That does not sound normal. Although it's not the bitrate or the size of the collection that makes the most difference, it's the number of files.
For me with a collection of 24432 FLAC files (625GB), a scan is usually done in under 15 minutes on an SSD disk.
But with the song fingerprinting or ebur128 analysis options on it will take much longer.
Is your source a local disk? Is it an SSD disk? How many files do you have in total under the directory added in Collection, including all files not just audio files? What audio formats? Do you have the fingerprinting or ebur128 options on?

+1 for this.

I am moving over to strawberry on linux over using dopamine on windows. On dopamine, I have about 300 smart playlists (I have about 18k songs in my collection too). The smart playlists being ordered alphabetically by default, instead of creation order (I assume that's what it uses?) would increase navigability.

It would be really nice if we could make playlist folders too (e.g. i have some playlists based around artists, some based around genres, and so on, and it would be nice to group them), but all of them listed alphabetically would be great!

@MovingSounds Well I "sort of" fixed it.

I'd had my last.fm account since 2011 and I noticed that it hadn't updated for some time. So, I deleted the account and created a new one, connected it to Strawberry and it immediately started keeping track, in fact it even back-peddled and added tracks from the last couple of weeks.

@MovingScenes
This would work on Linux, on Windows, you might need to find an alternative to wget.
Open the console, navigate to your music directory and launch a python http server with: python -m http.server 8123 (You need to have python installed, obviously)
Warning: this is not secure, any one on your local network can access this server, so be sure to close it afterwards.
When that is running, in a new Terminal window download the hosted page, but only the html files with: wget -r --accept "*.html" "http://localhost:8123/"
This gives you your music folder structure as html files. You could copy the folder to your phone, laptop, or whatever and browse your collection, by opening the index.html in a webbrowser. Alternatively, you could host it on a webserver, if you have one.

This is just what I spontaneously came up with, if I needed a solution in a pinch. But I am sure there are better ways.