Switch to TagLib for scanning of music files

[nvllsvm]

The current scanning uses ffprobe and is quite slow. My library 180GB MP3 (16,431 tracks) is taking well over an hour to scan. I suspect that TagLib would be able to scan the metadata more efficiently - especially considering that Python and Mutagen were able to scan the whole library in under 5 minutes and thus showing that the bottle neck is clearly in the software.

[EraYaN]

Does TagLib support the media types/codec info? Can't really find all that much about it. Otherwise we might need MediaInfo or something similar to get this info. Example wrapper That could be used for video scanning as well though.

[JustAMan]

This requires having a mediainfo.dll for all OSes, introducing another native dependency except ffmpeg (though the idea itself looks worth exploring).

[EraYaN]

Mmm I think the biggest challenge would be the ARM targets.

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