Even in my example above, I believe that all of the albums by an artist were refreshed by the number of albums added. I wouldn’t know what to look for in the logs to prove that.
But basically, that meant, in my case that 5 albums and one artist was refreshed twice, and 3 albums and one artist was refreshed once.
A number of fixes and improvements to the new Scanner are coming along
The first relates to lyric searches and a change is in Plex Media Server beta 1.19.1.2589 which was released yesterday
Release Notice: Plex Media Server
Further changes are planned and being worked on
I am running 1.19.1.2578 Public and running into this error, anything I can do to help with a resolution?
This error?
If you provide server logs of “the error” and indicate what the error is - I will add it to my queue
I have got your logs - I see you have disabled debug logging at Apr 03, 2020 18:21
Please tell me what you are referring as “the error” - what time/day it was ? and what was being done?
As a side - I notice some server token issues - I suspect you migrated your server from another machine and you copied the machine identifier - but you did not follow the steps exactly as outlined here for moving PMS
Move an Install to Another System which indicate that the server needs to be signed off (not claimed when the app data is copied across - also there is a step to go through a sign out and sign in
This is unrelated to music scans but is an issue - you have a server running with a security token belonging to a different owned server
Noted, did reference the above URL in migrating and thought I had logged out but apparently that is not the case. Will take these one at a time however and add that to the list.
“The Error” is Scanning and trying to rematch every file in the updated folders (which traverse deep) I did follow the directions to refresh Artist level data at https://support.plex.tv/articles/correcting-your-music-content-matches/
There was an import of about 7 folders around the time the export was running that is what was filling the alerts and creating a lot of i/o. This happening every time I update the folders (which is frequent) seems like overkill.
what I would like is logs with debug logging not disabled
Information with the logs like this (this is just example):
with a lot of periodic and automatic scanning in the logs I need to know what time/date the problem that you are reporting occurred and what changes were being made to the media
At 6:55PM I added a folder called ph1995-06-16.akg468.139103.flac16 to the Live Archive Library. The copy finished at 6:57PM
I reopened the artist folder in the Plex app and now we are rematching all metadata for this artist (~500 albums), this starts at around 7:15PM. Apologies that my steps were out of order this morning, my fault for posting first thing in the morning and I will gladly eat crow as deserved.Plex Media Server Logs_2020-04-07_19-16-32.zip (6.1 MB)
To give context: I have Library settings here set to give preference to Local Media/Personal/local tags, I care more about the way I have them set organized in the files than Musicbrainz, and since a lot of this is live recordings, matching in Musicbrainz will be hit or miss to begin with. All I care about at the end of the day is these link up to the embedded data, and I’ll come into Plex and do some fine tuning on release date, and applying collections and additional genres as needed. Not having these huge artist libraries rescan every time I open the artist page would be ideal, that seems like a lot of wasted overhead, likely something else I jacked up from the migration.
If it’s fixable that would be great, I’d like to not lose the aforementioned collections / record label tagging I have done in Plex but if I have to pave over this install and start fresh to make it work I can resign myself to that reality.
Thanks for the support
could you download the database and send me the zip privately - if too big please upload to dropbox/google drive etc and send me a link
PM’d, thank you!
I’m now on Version 1.19.1.2645 and a scan of my Music library takes about an hour and a half now, not 12 hours. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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(seemingly) infinite rescanning/matching
can’t access settings (everything still works as far as streaming/browsing)
Today’s beta Plex Media Server release 1.19.2.2673 has changes that introduce partial scanning for Music libraries -
This is not a complete fix to the issue but is a stepping stone to getting the problem addressed. We will still be refreshing artists at the end - ones that appear to have media that needs to be refreshed.
Since installing this beta, my Samsung television (2014 model) plex app will not display any of the libraries, and appears to hang.
It is, however, possible to ‘cast’ from the plex app on an iOS device to the plex app running on the Samsung television.
Please raise a separate forum topic as this is not related to Music scanning.
Please enable the debug logging options within the Samsung app and attach server logs with debug logging enabled beforehand when you see the problem
Hi sa2000, the updated scanner seems to be working much more unobtrusively (for me), thank you.
However, the scanner (still) does not import ratings from tags.
From new content, or existing.
neither mp3, or flac.
Yes, prefer local tags is enabled. Neither rescan library, nor refresh metadata will pull in ratings from tags.
If this is not already on the list of things to ‘fix’, could you please add it as a ticket to be investigated?
thank you.
Thanks for the feedback
Could I have some examples of the actual tags please
sample mp3 and flac @ https://sites.google.com/site/teknojnky2/temp
Can we get a way to suppress trying to rematch things that are not in Musicbrainz? Watching all these resources be consumed rematching entire artist libraries against a DB where it knows they don’t exist every time something gets added is becoming a barrier to continuing to use the music features of Plex for many it seems.
Plex, you’re not going to find lyrics and MB info for my live recordings, please stop.
@sa2000 Scanner still takes considerable cpu and time to rescan “Various Artists” when adding new albums.
