Server Version#: Version 1.31.1.6733
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I turned on Sonic Analysis last week and it took a few days to completely scan my music folder with over 13K albums. The Sonic Analysis features all seem to work OK now, very cool.
The issue is that whenever Sonic Analysis kicks off as a scheduled task or when I add a new album and it scans that, it always starts by scanning 8 albums but fails. In the console it shows as exiting with code 69, and from what I can see in the logs it is saying “no audio track existed within the file”.
How can I find these 8 albums out of 13,000 that have some sort of problem that needs correcting please and thank you.
If you can view details about the processes on your server (ps -ax | grep -i plex on BSD/Linux or Process Explorer on Windows) you may be able to find a Plex Transcoder process which includes a filename in its arguments.
Another good trick is going into your music library, viewing the library as a list of all tracks, and sorting the tracks by play time. You may find some that have absurd play times, like 25 hours. Sometimes, those will trip up Plex.
When I check those tracks with other tools they all pass health checks, but nonetheless, they may cause trouble for Plex. The only fix was replacing them.
It would be great if the Sonic Analysis activity monitor text would include the name of the current album, like we see when PMS is crunching on intro detection.
Monitor the general /tmp folder during analysis.
You will find a folder for each album with wav files in there.
Listen to them, the file names provide additional clues which album this might be.
Based on the advice above I tracked it down to a bunch of folders filled with ■■■■■■techno mixes from the 90’s downloaded on IRC and Napster
Listened to the temp wav files during analysis and removed/replaced the files at fault.
Thank you again to everyone who assisted to resolve this. Sonic analysis now working correctly
