#18933·Files

Bug: Audio metadata freezes temporarily on webDAV drives

Author: shanjiang8080Created Sep 8, 2026Updated Sep 19, 2026
Labelsarea - network drives

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