Server Version#: 1.20.4.3517
Player Version#: 1.22.0.1421-be6a7c42
Referencing this page:
https://support.plex.tv/articles/201242707-plex-media-scanner-via-command-line/
and this post:
https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-pms-wont-analyze-my-music-files-solved/218646/2
I was wanting to try and force PMS to re analyze my music library as I am having a slew of tunes that are out of the loudness range median despite the claim that they have been analyzed at some point in time,
For whatever reason using the Alias did not work for me after being created, but using the explicit path to the app seemed to work up to a point.
"/Applications/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex Media Scanner" --list
** 38: DVR Movies**
** 36: DVR TV**
** 23: Music**
That command worked fine, but when I went to execute the analyze command, I simply get a carriage return and the server remains idle.
"/Applications/Plex Media Server.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex Media Scanner" --analyze-loudness --item 23 --force --progress
Based on the posts I have read, I guess I would have expected the CPU’s to increase in activity and certainly some disk activity, but I am not seeing anything after executing the command. Is there an order in which the attributes should be presented to the app?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Here is the list of options available to me from the command line:
Plex Media Scanner © 2010-2019 Plex Development Team.
-h, --help Display this message.
-v, --verbose Show more output.
-p, --progress Show special progress output.
–log-file-suffix Specify suffix for log file.
Actions:
-r, --refresh Refresh the metadata.
-a, --analyze Analyze media information.
–analyze-deeply Fully read and perform deep media analysis.
–analyze-loudness Perform loudness analysis.
-b, --index Generate a media index file. Deprecated.
-s, --scan Scan for new media.
-i, --info Get information.
-l, --list List.
-g, --generate Regenerate thumbnails/fanart.
-t, --tree Show a section tree.
-w, --reset Delete all media out of a section.
-n, --add-section --type type:1,2,8 --agent --location --lang Add a new section.
-D, --del-section Delete a section.
-m, --match Match an album.
–match-artist Artist to use when matching.
–match-album Album to use when matching.
–match-tag-mode=X Tag mode (normal, all, exclusive).
-f, --files Files.
Items to which actions apply:
-c, --section A library section ID.
-o, --item An item ID.
-d, --directory A directory path.
–activity An activity UUID.
Modifiers to actions:
-x, --force Force an operation (e.g. refresh).
–no-thumbs Do not regenerate thumbs when analyzing.
–chapter-thumbs-only Only generate chapter thumbnails during generate pass
–thumbOffset Percent offset into video for thumbnail image generated during media analysis.
–artOffset Percent offset into video for fanart image generated during media analysis.
