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This is a premium library and I heard that they work worse than the normal ones. I would prefer not to have to recreate all my play lists when erasing and re-adding the music library.
Is there a way to see what the media scanner is crashing on? Which logs do you need from me?
This issue is new, the scan always finished before.
The usual cause of it taking so long / never finishing is how the files themselves have been curated. If the embedded tags and structure is not per Plex standard, it will take much longer (or forever) to complete.
The best logs to provide are those created:
What should the verbosity be set to? Debug? I currently have all logging switched off, as it degrades performance. Which ones should I switch on?
Yes … DEBUG is correct. VERBOSE only retains about 2-3 minutes of activity.
Settings - General - DEBUG logging ON, VERBOSE logging OFF, Save
Hi, just my2c since i’m mostly a music plexer. You can build extensive libraries without problemos if you start from scratch:
~ Totally blank out your current libraries and get to a more-or-less virgin install of plex (that works without hitch).
~ Then put in just one album and see if it catalogs quickly. Let say it does and everything works no problemo, great. Now u’ve verified that it works.
~ Start adding up b’bout 5 albums at a time and see if all goes smooth. If it does fantastic! Then spend a few hours cataloging albums and studying the results. My advice, don’t allow plex to catalog automatically, always upload 5 albums or more and then “Scan Library Files”.
~ Soon you’ll have ur library up and can rely on PLEX cataloging quickly. Yes, you will have to massage a newISH library quite a bit at first but it pays off. At least you can verify if ur tagging is good enough or could be revised.
good luck and lemme know FWIW.
-wbm
To add to that,
I find that if you in blocks of no more than 20 discs (up to about 50 tracks), it is both quick and easily manageable.
I have both a test-music and music library. Test-music is for those I am ripping. When I’m certain they’re right, I move the files into the main.
Once properly curated, an entire library build (MANY tracks) takes only a couple hours , from scratch.
Will do. Where do I upload them? I would prefer to not make my logs available to the whole internet.
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Scanner is working again, it stumbled over mp3 files that were joined with mp3wrap, which preserves the header info. Plex stumbles over this and crashes. I recommend not using mp3wrap, there are other ways to join mp3s together.
You can close this as solved.
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