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As you wish as long as you know you’re on borrowed time.
Plex cannot / does not support any distro which is EOL status.

I wish you the best.

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Plex is very lightly used. I’ll wait to see if anyone in the family complains about Plex not working for them.

Thanks for everything, you’re the man!

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I did not think to use the Folders sort of the Library last night. It turns out, both missing Bach albums were scanned but their meta tags were not read. [Unknown Artist] for Album Artist, and the rest of the fields blank. After manual editing of tags both albums now show up in the ‘Recently Added…’ list. I hope (in vain, I’m sure) meta tag reading will be improved in upcoming versions.

So, a combination of [Unknown Artist] and [Unknown Album] will show up in Recently Added, but if the album field is blank, it does not report the files to the user as added. It would be nice if the Folders view could be sorted by date added / modified, but there are no sort options.

It just means more time and manual labor to keep the library tidy and accessible.

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The heavy CPU usage is by ‘Plex Script HoS’ as reported by top in the terminal. It is also presumably eating up drive space, which has shrunk by 4+ GB over the last few days. The process is still running.

Is there a way to turn off this sampling feature? I do not need it. I have unchecked ‘Upgrade media analysis during maintenance’ and ‘Perform extensive media analysis during maintenance’. I hope that does it.

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104 hours and the script is still running, using 35-40% of CPU.

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228 hours and the script is still thrashing away at it.

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@IsaiahSellassie

One user waited over 2 weeks for it to complete. He also had 480 GB of metadata.

There is no way to estimate how long the task would take because of how long it would take to count the number of files / space. There would be even more complaints for an Estimate

You should probably make sure your Synology Indexing service is STOPPED.

It will cause great pain.

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There is no RAID in this system. I ran /usr/syno/sbin/synoservice --hard-stop synoindexd and got ‘No such file or directory’.

Neither is Tracker installed. The puzzling thing is, the data and directory structure are not new. Only the physical drive under ~/Music has changed. Anyway, I’m not planning to interrupt it. The system is not running hot, the fan is still quiet as usual.

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The script is still running, doing something I do not want nor need. At the end of the month I’ll stop the Plex service from the terminal and start testing alternatives.

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@IsaiahSellassie

Pull up the Resource Monitor → Processes

Find out what the names of the Plex processes which are running please.

If the processes are mv, chown, realpath, and/or find then the script is still going through all your metadata – which you seem to have a great deal of.

It will not HANG.

  • find is the parent process to realpath and ln. It finds each file one by one and gives to the other commands in the script. Those other commands are also linear one-pass.
  • chown changes the username from plex to PlexMediaServer for all the files.
  • mv is the actual data mover when it’s all done.
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Thanks for your attention, Chuck. I’m running a command top in the terminal for a listing of processes by CPU usage. The GUI resource monitor is not very good I’m told—no Plex process is listed. I see ‘Plex Script Hos’ in the terminal, but the name is truncated by the column width… It is still using the same 35-40% of CPU continuously. If there is some other command you want me to run, I can do it.

By, the way, there are no symlinks in the ~/Music directory. There are in the ball park of 8 Tb of data, stored across two drives.

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So, I go over to the Linux system to run setup of Kodi, and lo and behold, the Plex script is done! ‘Plex Script Hos…’ is still running but using around 5% of CPU, and not continuously.

I’m still going to test Kodi and Emby. If either one reads meta data better than Plex I’ll switch over. Plex reads FLAC files reasonably well, but makes a complete mess of DSF files. I have been ripping a bunch of SACDs over the last week or so, and I have had to work hard at cleaning up the mess in Plex. The meta data is in IDv3 tags—what’s the problem? I don’t know.

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I spoke too soon! The script is back at it. It is doing the same thing again, presumably because there are 100+ Gb of new files in the library now.

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