My music library is 60k+ songs. The initial build/refresh of the library took nearly 3days. Since Plex doesn’t or should I say my Synology doesn’t throw “change” alerts, I have set Plex to update my library hourly. Problem is once it hits my Music library (where currently no new items have been added) it takes more then a day or longer to update… i don’t know I never let it finish because my other Libraries needs updating.
I would like to see a feature where we can select which libraries are part of the Update Scan or a way to exclude certain libraries from the update scan. I don’t wan’t to remove my Music library as I do access it quite often while on long drives or in the office.
Current Setup:
Windows Server 2012 Virtual Machine (Hyper-V)
Virtual Machine VHDX file is on a 256GB Samsung 950 Pro M.2
Virtual Machine has a dedicated 1Gb NIC (not shared with host)
Intel i7 5960x on Host with 14 cores/threads dedicated to VM
12GB of RAM
Media is located on a Synology 1815+ with all four 1Gb bonded on a switch (12+TB of media), R/W on NAS is capable of tapping out the 1Gb link
Overall the system is a great PMS and has no issues serving up content and multiple streams on and offsite
If your Plex server is running on your Windows server VM then there is a way you can update single libraries on schedule.
Create a task in Task Scheduler that has a command line like: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Scanner.exe"
and arguments like --scan --refresh --section 1
and have it trigger as often as you like with any other task settings you like.
To find out the section just go to the specific library in Plex Web and look at the end of the URL. http://myserver:32400/web/index.html#!/server/...../section/14
for example for section…well…14
Nice… thanks for the reply… I did find a post about the “Plex Media Scanner.exe” while running a search on my C: I can’t seem to find that executable
Edit* I found it… Thanks again for the reply… I will create scheduled tasks for each individual library…
although not as easy as clicking a check box or radio button… It does alleviate my issue.
Running search on Google and Reddit… it does seem that others are having the same issue with their Music Library taking for ever to refresh.
