Some time ago I learned, that phex horribly down (speed), when you have too many files, because the searches just eat up too much speed.
Could that be solved by using a second index, where you pre-sort the files by most often used keywords?
For that phex would need to
!. Create a list of the most often used queries (just save them and sort them, by part (.. .mp3) and by whole name (song.mp3).
2. Create a precompiled list of the files fitting the search-quere for each of the 20 or 50 most often used queries.

Then phex would only need to search smaller files instead of one large file.

I don't know the statistics, so I can't say if that would work, but if most searches can be put into one of 20 or 50 cathegories, the speed would likely go up and sgharing would work better again.

Bab