# Sound library lag

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/sound-library-lag/22632>\
**Category:** Libraries\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/sound-library-lag/22632 "2020-07-15T08:24:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bubloo7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bubloo7](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Bubloo7)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/sound-library-lag/22632/1 "2020-07-15T08:24:50Z")

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Hi, I’m a beginner to processing and I’m trying to use the sound library. It works as it should but whenever I run the sketch it takes 2-3 minutes of loading before the sketch actually starts. While it’s loading, all I see is a gray screen. I’m only using 6 audio files which are all less than 5 minutes long so I have no idea why it takes this long to load. I exported the project as an exe and sent it to my friend and when they ran the exe it was stuck on the gray screen forever. I have sent an exe without the sound library to them before and it has never gray screened for them before so clearly the sound library is the problem. I also never had any lag issues with my sketch until I started using sound. Any help to fix this lag problem would be greatly appreciated! By the way, I’m using processing 3.3.7 and the audio files are all .mp4