I’ve been following the steps in this thread ( Sonic Analysis - has processed 6 albums in 40 minutes - Plex Media Server / Desktops & Laptops - Plex Forum ) but I’m still struggling with getting my Sonic Analysis to progress. I’d have posted there if the thread was still alive [image] I’m stuck at…

Look into your system’s temp folder. You will find one or several folders in there with “sonic” in their folder name. in them, there are WAV files. If you find a WAV file of a suspiciously small file size, it can be a good hint at which file is the culprit. You should be able to identify the alb…

[image] vaderag: I have these folders with WAV in them (a few are empty) - none of them are suspiciously small, all look around the size you would expect from a wav Listen to them & look at the file names to identify the album. Take this album(s) temporarily out of the library and re-trigger…

Thanks for your help - found a single album causing a stall, combined with something else I think to do with one of my video files which combined was stalling this action… either way- it’s now done :slight_smile:

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OttoKerner July 4, 2022, 10:32am 2

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