SUMMARY When launch at startup Elisa still freeze for long time, (if you are on powersave management profile, for very long time) so need to go in performance to "unlock" Elisa. My local library count is only 12k flac file indexed (of my over 70k total flac's) with "native" engine but same happen with "direct read" behavior. My laptop with Crucial P5 nvme pci 4.0 drive, so I'm sure isn't bandwidth transfer rate issue lol. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Get high performance hardware to ensure you are on good speed performance. 2. Set on Elisa library folder with high amount of flac's >12.000 files. 3. After indexing, restart Elisa. OBSERVED RESULT Elisa GUI (buttons and other clickable objects still "hold" for a while, no playback, long or short times depends by your CPU power available. EXPECTED RESULT Elisa must start playing audio tracks immediately after launching, index checking behavior must be done in background and not impact on user interface or listen if your library high count files. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Gentoo Linux 2.15 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13 Kernel Version: 6.7.10-gentoo-dist (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 16 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION My current compile USE flags: media-sound/elisa-23.08.5:5::gentoo USE="semantic-desktop -debug -handbook -mpris -test -vlc" Elisa is a great piece of software, I love it, please keeping care!