In an attempt to more efficiently locate and correct missing cover art and album release year data in my Plex Premium Music section for my rather extensive MP3 collection I am creating a new library scanning in one letter of the alphabet at a time starting with the [~Z~] folder all the way up to [~A~] and [~0-9~]. With an extremely large collection trying to scan everything at once just doesn’t work well for a number of reasons ranging from the amount of time scanning straining the system resources to many artists simply not correctly downloading any cover art at all.
I have found that scanning in one letter of the alphabet at a time and getting it 100% the way I want it before moving on just works best. My one complaint with this however is that each time I add a new folder, the scanner must rescan all the other folders before scanning the new files. The further up the alphabet I get, the longer it takes to actually add any new files. It would be much more efficient to scan newly added folders first as I would be able to cancel the rest of the scan after the folders I’m adding have been scanned.
I do first run Bulk File Changer to ensure that new files are scanned in folder order, but no matter what even if I make sure the newly added folders all have newer modified by dates that what is already been scanned they will still be added last.
I realize that adding a large music collection is something that should only have to be done once but after having a 5.0TB WE RED drive have total mechanical failure I am rebuilding my collection from various backed-up sources and am dealing with all these problems for a second time.
Thanks in advance for any support.
