# Most basic music scanner setup - recommendations? **URL:** \ **Category:** Dev/API Corner\ **Tags:** scanner-agent-dev\ **Created:** [April 10, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/most-basic-music-scanner-setup-recommendations/99533 "2015-04-10T13:12:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stevedresden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevedresden](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stevedresden)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/most-basic-music-scanner-setup-recommendations/99533/1 "2015-04-10T13:12:11Z")
I’ve recently been trying to setup PlexMS as a music server, mainly due to the fact that you guys got it working on a Raspberry Pi 2 and the fact that the client is really nice on my Samsung TV and my son’s PS4   I have a reasonably large music library of 70,000 tracks (9,000 albums and 2,000 artists) and my first attempt at setting up the library was aborted after 5 days and the scan still seemed to be chugging happily on with no sign of completing. Is that normal?   I have to admit I hadn’t done much reading on the way Plex libraries work, so having read through [https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200058637-Naming-and-Organizing-Music-media](https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/sections/200058637-Naming-and-Organizing-Music-media) I now have a better understanding of what it’s doing, but I have zero interest in downloading tons of metadata from the internet.   My current folder set up is   **/Media/Music/Artist/Year Album/Track – Title.mp3**   This seems to be at odds with the recommendation in the link   **Media/Music/Artist - Album/Track – Title.mp3**   Which would be an unwieldy way to organise my folders given the size of my library – does it matter if I don’t strictly follow that set up?   My library is fully and consistently tagged ID3v2.3 mp3s with cover art jpgs in each album folder.   All I really want to do is have those tags read and that cover art loaded. Nothing more, nothing less.   What is the most basic recommended way of setting up the scanner to do this?     ---
**Author:** ![stevedresden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/35a633/32.png) [@stevedresden](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stevedresden)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/most-basic-music-scanner-setup-recommendations/99533/2 "2015-05-13T15:28:37Z")
Don't all rush at once to help me - I've ditched Plex now as it was the most awful, over-engineered piece of media software I've ever encountered. I get why a lot of people like it, but it's style over substance approach turned me off completely. Cheers for your feedback! ---
**Author:** ![Touka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@Touka](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Touka)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/most-basic-music-scanner-setup-recommendations/99533/3 "2015-07-15T12:44:34Z")
Hi, I have the almost the same music organisation : **/Media/Music/Artist/Year – AlbumName/TrackNumber – TrackTitle.mp3** I’m going to change the scanner to fit my organisation using the following links: [forums.plex.tv/discussion/19396/how-to-install-a-custom-scanner/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/19396/how-to-install-a-custom-scanner/p1 "https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/19396/how-to-install-a-custom-scanner/p1") [forums.plex.tv/discussion/19395/music-folder-scanner/p1](https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/19395/music-folder-scanner/p1 "https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/19395/music-folder-scanner/p1") Tell you more when I’m done with it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/most-basic-music-scanner-setup-recommendations/99533/4 "2020-01-08T19:48:24Z")
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