Okay, glad to hear at least one user is reporting better performance. FWIW 1.10 is a lot faster in reading the tags, both when changing tracks quickly and under "normal" conditions. The sandbox version I built last night with id3lib instead of libid3tag seems a lot slower for me in picking up the info.

For now I guess I'll wait for tfabris and TheAmigo to test the v1.10 release against the sandbox v1.10 with id3lib. Then I can hopefully rule out the id3 library as the cause of this supposed drop in performance in 1.10. Then we can start adding ReserveCache or stopping other programs to see if those are getting in the way somehow.