Bug: Audio metadata freezes temporarily on webDAV drives

[shanjiang8080]

Description

If the user browses a webDAV mounted to a drive, and the user browses a remote folder with audio files that have metadata like artist, cover image, etc., then the UI freezes for quite a long time. It does not freeze indefinitely, but this degrades the user experience. Ideally, this metadata downloading should be on a separate thread.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Mount a webDAV drive to the computer (for example, from a nextcloud instance)
2. Browse to a location on the webDAV with multiple audio tracks with metadata
3. The program freezes while it loads the metadata.

Files Version

4.2.9.0

Windows Version

10.0.28000.2804

User ID

24fbe02f-010d-48fa-af4e-261e5301354d

Log File

debug.log

[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for the feedback, can you see if this is an issue in the preview version. https://files.community/download

[Josh65-2201]

@shanjiang8080 Can you answer the above.

[shanjiang8080]

Yes, this does occur on the latest preview version 4.2.37.0

[Josh65-2201]

Thanks for checking