It would be nice if the Media Server could analyze the file someone wants play before it shows me that it’s not playable. Or to implement a button where every User could start the analyzation of the wanted file by themselve. :wink:

I think some analyzation of the media files does happen when you first add them to your media library.

Let the Plex butler analyze your files. https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201553286-Scheduled-Tasks

@ttopkcaj said: It would be nice if the Media Server could analyze the file someone wants play before it shows me that it’s not playable. Or to implement a button where every User could start the analyzation of the wanted file by themselve. :wink: I don’t understand, Plex does this already… are…

@KarlDag said: I don’t understand, Plex does this already… are you asking to find out in advance what files you can’t DIRECT PLAY? Because Plex will simply transcode files that have codec incompatibility with your client… Due to some bugs in earlier PMS versions, the media analysis in the data…

What my problem is, I have Plex connected to my Amazon Drive with rclone mount. From time to time it looses the connection and cause of that some media-information from a few files are gone. I have to analyze them by myself or wait until the butler is doing it at night. :neutral:

@ttopkcaj said: What my problem is, I have Plex connected to my Amazon Drive with rclone mount. From time to time it looses the connection and cause of that some media-information from a few files are gone. I have to analyze them by myself or wait until the butler is doing it at night. :neutral: …

[image] Can we get the plex cloud scanner for plex pass plex? I have other gsuite accounts that are mounted with rclone and to avoid bans from google you have to turn off all scanning and trigger a scan for each item that you add. Is it possible to use the scanner that it used for Plex Clo…

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