I can’t seem to find a clear answer anywhere.
To give my question some background:
At the bottom of the “Advanced” tab for my music library there is a field titled “Scanner”. This field has a drop-down box with two choices.
The first choice is “Plex Music”.
The second choice is “Plex Music Scanner”
My question is: Which choice should I select?
Thanks.
Server Version#: 1.18.5.2309
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“Plex Music” is the new scanner, and “Plex Music Scanner” is the old one. I highly recommend the new one. For most, it should do a better job.
New scan is broke. Takes hours to complete.
Darn. Hate hearing that. I took a shot and changed to “Plex Music Scanner” in the meantime and my unmatched Artists immediately dropped from 500+ to 127. At one time I had over 600 of my 1100 Artists in “unmatched”. Seeing the drop got my hopes up.
At the moment it seems the “matching” is broke. I thought this new system is supposed to sonicly match, but I’ve been burning hours cleaning up metadata, hoping to make a dent.
I moved the config back to scanner “Plex Music”. Seems to have resolved some issues, but I’m back to over 500 unmatched.
Music scanner is definitely broke. Even with no new music is gets stuck every time it hits the music libraries.
If you are having issues with scanning in music please also indicate how your files are organized.
It is important that every album lives in its own folder otherwise scans can take very long and have bad matches.
See this support document, it covers most of what you need to know: https://support.plex.tv/articles/upgrade-music-libraries-new-metadata-system/
It worked fine prior to a few updates back. I submitted logs a few weeks back that weren’t acknowledged. Not sure what else is needed.
My music folder is organized by iTunes. The support articles indicate that this organizing method should be good. However, I see that iTunes doesn’t name the files in the same format as shown in the support article. The article states that naming by iTunes is {track #} - {track name}. iTunes currently is organizing file names with {disc #}-{track #}{space}{track name}. I have seen exceptions to the iTunes naming in the case were disc number is only 1 of {blank}, 1 of 1, or {blank} of {blank}. In these cases the disc # is not included in the file name; thus the file name begins with the track #.
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