Banshee Freezing on import media files

I had this problem. Unchecking the Podcast feature in Preferences fixed it. Thanks!

:( Unfortunately the next time ( see comments above) I tried to rescan the music library Banshee froze again.

I like to play albums which I browse using cover art - I gave up & tried

1. Rhythmbox - the cover art plugin crashed it

2. Tomahawk - downloads the cover art it can find but doesn't seem to read what's actually there, so it shows a lot of blanks

3. Lollypop - which I liked a lot because you could browse cover art arranged in artist order, but which multiplied compilation albums (& even some non-compilation albums) over many covers with no obvious solution.

So I went back to Banshee. Purged it, deleted the ./config/banshee-1 file, rebooted & then re-installed it. So far so good.

So maybe my problem was buried in the installation or the config file.

Later:

Uh-oh, this seems familiar. this time i repeated the process & deleted the DAAP extension.

I had the same problems with Banshee 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04. Unfortunately none of the proposals from above works for me.

I found a very easy workaround. Omit the "Import Media" feature, instead configure the root path of the music collection in Preferences->Source Specific, and then use Menu->Tools->Rescan Music Library.