I installed a new Plex server in the cloud and Music meta-data is eating up the disk (cloud disk space is at a premium!). My iTunes is on Dropbox - mounted by the cloud server.
du -sh /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/*
5.9G Albums
5.1G Artists
25M Movies
74M TV Shows
my old server (same Plex version)
1.4G Albums
502M Artists
351M Movies
616M TV Shows
(I have different movies/TV shows on each server because they aren’t all on Dropbox)
I checked the server/library settings and they are the same
2 GB for Albums+Artists is about right based on iTunes/Album Artwork. It would be better it Plex just used the existing iTunes artwork.
Both Plex servers are the same
Server Version# 1.18.3.2156-349e9837e
New server: Centos 7, mergerfs/rclone for Dropbox/sftp
Old server:: Ubuntu 18.0.4 LTS. ext4
