southpaw3473
My original reason for using Windows Explorer is because Sonar's Browser takes 30 seconds to open when I want to browse my MIDI files. Every time. Its even a little more laggy in Platinum for me. I would way prefer using Sonar's but it just takes too long.
Thirty seconds!
While it's true that browser in Platinum can be a bit slower than X3's and both of them are not exactly the champions in speed search, 30 seconds is waaaay out of the normal behaviour. I myself have got a not very fast hard drive where the Sonar's audio/midi library is and here are my brief stats (it's Windows 7 x64):
-Clean project start, open media browser - less than 1 second;
-Going to that infamous folder from X2 (that one with all the loops in one folder) for the first time - about 2 seconds;
-The same but for the second time - about 1 second;
-Recursive search for any file which name matches a "*bass*.rex" pattern in it, going through 406 folders and 11000 files - 3-4 seconds.
Seriously, I think you ought to do some hardware checking, or maybe check your Windows installation, or hard drive caching settings, or something like that. That's absolutely not normal and I doubt it is Sonar's personal bug.