does it freeze after selecting a directory for your music?  if so, try clicking cancel and not selecting one instead (and add your music via other means, perhaps by smaller directories at a time)

hey there,
 
yes, it should be scanning the music directory using a background thread, so i have no idea why it would lock up altogether.
 
to test this, can you try disabling the auto-scan of the directory (you might have to rename the directory before loading re2 so you can unset this setting)... do a little playing around and see if that helps, and i might have more info to go investigate on.. thanks!

good to hear that...  still, if the file was corrupt, it shouldn't have caused a freeze, it should have skipped over it and tried to load a backup or loaded a blank re2 at the very worst.  so, if that happens again please send me a copy of the corrupted music_database.xml for me to test with, thanks!

yah, there should be backups automatically created of music_database.xml.  apparently the code to automatically restore from backup is broken, which i'll have to investigate.  if you simply rename one of these backup xml files to music_database.xml, that should allow you to restore most of your song data....

yeah it keeps on doing in, and now when it actually does start if i double click a song none of the compatible songs highlight...then it freezes again lol

Hello all,
 
I experienced what seems to be the same problem - deleting the music database worked but was less than optimal as I didn't want to rescan all of my music. After restoring the music database from a backup I found that deleting the lookfeel.cfg file alone allowed me to recover. After I did this, the "add song" dialog appears, indicating new files were located in my music directory. I let RE scan the songs, then applied the custom theme afterward and voila - I was back in business. Looks like a deadlock on the file scanner on startup - if I had time I'd do a thread dump and see exactly what's happening - but alas I have mixes to make
 
So in short:
 
- kill RE if it's running/hung
- delete the lookfeel.cfg file in your RE profile dir (you can run explorer "%APPDATA%\Rapid Evolution 2" on windows to get there quickly)
- Start RE
- If it finds songs let RE scan them, OR cancel that dialog and go to Options >> Library  and disable the option to automatically scan on startup
 
Hope this helps. Qualia - many thanks for this awesome software. It has been of immense help, and I will be donating shortly. Can't wait for RE3 as well..
 
-satz