Plex Library Constantly Scanning

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Has this issue been resolved? In my case I am running PMS Version 1.13.4.5251 on a Synology NAS RS2212+ DSM 6.1.7-15284 Update 2. While a scan proper takes only a few minutes - following each scan there is a repeated metadata “scan” but seemingly for certain artists only (I am using PMS exclusively for my music collection). The only way to stop the metadata scan is to stop PMS on the NAS and restart it. My problem seems limited to metadata scan, for specific artists only (those with a significant number of entries). In library settings only “run a partial scan when changes are detected” is checked. Happy to take recommendations. Thanks

Apologies - seeing now this is tagged for server-mac - not what I have.

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I am having the same issue since about July time frame. I have a very large music library and the server never gets past scanning the music library which means it isn’t picking up new items until i restart or force quit the scan.

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I started having this exact problem a month ago. Still no fix? Mine is on a Windows System though.

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@sa2000 @Konolua
Ever since the Version 1.13.9.5439 update I’ve seen constant scanning again of my music library. My CPU is at ~15% for Plex Media Scanner consistently now. Does this thread need to be re-opened or should a new one be started?

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You can confirm that 1.13.8.5395 does not do this?

I would suggest a new forum topic and mentioning the version in the title - you can link to this topic from it

It will be similar investigation

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I’ll downgrade to 1.13.8.5395 to confirm but I believe so. I have not seen anything like that and I notice only due to the spinning activity lately that the scanner has been going. Once I opened up taskbar I saw the constant 15% cpu utilization. I’ll get to it when I can in a week or so and then open a new thread.

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I have a theory. I have 2 servers with music on it, 1 on the PC and 1 on the laptop. The PC wasn’t doing a scan when the laptop was. So I looked at where the location of the music was. I’m using iTunes. And noticed on the PC that I manually went to the directory where my music was which contains only music. On the laptop I must have used the default Music directory which in my cas was C:\Users\Name\Music\iTunes, which contains other folders with other data than just music. So I’m thinking if something changes in any of the multiple directories, it triggers a scan. I would remove the old directory and add the directory where the music is directly which mine was C:\Users\Name\Music\iTunes\iTunes Media\Music. That way only a scan should occur if new music is added to it.