Rhythmbox takes for ever to load library

["Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems" <politby@xxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to get Rhythmbox to load my music library from a FAT32 
partition - it's about 6 GB of WMA and MP3 files. It appears to take 
forever. It's been showing the "Loading songs..." message for the better 
part of an hour now. The status indicator is moving back and forth so it 
doesn't appear to be hung.

Should it take this long?

/POL
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