Server Version#: 1.32.0.6918 for Windows
Player Version#: web
I just installed PMS for Windows. I pointed it to my copious (multi-TB) music library, mostly encoded in lossless FLAC, with a very small subset in lossy MP3. Surprise : only the MP3 music files showed up when I added files to the library, and none of the FLACs, which are >99%.
I thought Plex could support FLAC ? Is this not the case ? If it is, what do I need to do make those files recognized by PMS ?
If your media files are located on some kind of NAS or network file share, go back to the previous Plex server version: Plex Media Server support ending for older versions of Windows (7, 8, and 8.1), macOS (10.11, 10.12) - #4 by MovieFan.Plex
Yes, Plex has support for flac, provided these files are properly organized and tagged: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200265296-adding-music-media-from-folders/
With a collection like yours, I recommend disabling all the analysis features of Plex until the initial library import has been finished. Otherwise you may be waiting forever for the import to finish, because all the analysis processes are taking so much time.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200289526-library/
The media is not on a network share - it’s on a local drive (an NTFS stripe of 5 NVMe 4TB drives).
The files are not all organized or tagged according to the link you quoted. Some directories are, though.
I restarted the import without any of the analysis features. The import has been running for over 48 hours and still has not completed. How long can I expect it to take ? There are about 50,000 tracks.
In this case, the server is trying to “recognize” albums by creating a sonic fingerprint of all tracks stored in any given folder. Which will slow things down. And which might never finish if there is a folder containing an excessive amount of tracks. So you better split up that 60-disc box set of Mozart’s works into subfolders for each disc.
Thanks. I already have one folder per disc, so no worry on that front.
However, I had to reboot the machine during the scan, and now Plex no longer seems to be scanning. How do I resume the scan ?
Then pray that this didn’t already damage your primary database.
Or inspect them yourself. Take a look at the Plex Media Server.log file and seek for messages about database corrupt or malformed.
If you find these, you may have to repair your database.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/repair-a-corrupted-database/
You start a new one.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200392106-library-actions/
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