Picard is extremely slow on larger amount of songs

[mmirG]

On the cause of hangs/crashes

There have been a number of posts in the past about Picard hanging/crashing when attempting to process a large number of files. Suggestions to address this have included breaking up the music files into smaller batches. I have been doing a lot of testing recently of my Classical Extras plugin, which has involved a fair number of writes to the log file. My observation is that Picard will hang if there are an excessive number of writes to the log file (in the order of hundreds of thousands). I hav…

Have a look at the above post and then see if you can find out how to turn off logging - the following approach from that thread might be all that is actually do-able as far as “switching off logging”;

“MetaTunes
Feb 12
Not sure you can turn it off, but you can make sure that the “debug mode” box is not checked (go to Help->View Error/Debug log).”