[TyroneSama]

Honestly, the weirdest thing about the process is how StepMania decides to randomly throw out whatever index it's built from the song folders. The first time I run it in any given 12-hour-ish period, even with no changes to the song folder, it gives me The Long Load Of Death -- where, yes, it seems like it's stalling for multiple seconds on certain songs, always the same ones. I'll see if I can set up a screen recording or something to catch which ones it is.

After that's done, subsequent launches are near-instant...until StepMania decides that it's tired of being fast and goes through The Long Load again. Really don't know what's going on there.