Adding music files without running a full scan!

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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It took me 11 hours to scan my external hard drive and sync my 256 gb music library. My laptop slows while doing it.

I just want to add music files without running a full scan of ext.hdd as it takes forever and slows my laptop in the meantime.

Is there anyway around this? Can I stop a scan midway once it has found the new files (how)?

I appreciate any insight please.

Cheers
Any ideas

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Plex needs to scan the underlying folders in order to find your new files.
Usually subsequent scans won’t take as long as the initial one as it’ll only do a full analysis if changes to a file are detected. Similarly, a sonic analysis is only performed when an album is added to the library (not on every update) – if you have enabled the sonic features.

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Can it not just update from date added?

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That’s what it’ll do…
It goes through the directory and checks:

  1. if files/folders have been added
  2. if files/folders have been removed
  3. if media has changed (using e.g. the date added but also some other characteristics to avoid redoing a full analysis if you simply fixed a typo in your file naming).
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