Plex Music / Disk Space General Rule?

I have a decent music collection I’d like to import into Plex - but I have some disk space concerns. Is there a general rule for how much space is needed per album (or 100 or 1000) for the artwork and meta data?

I doubt anyone has ever sized this based just on music. Most of us with large music collections also have quite large video collections as well so there is no way to check the size to know how much of it belongs to the music section.

Maybe you could install a test server and add X number of albums and check it for yourself. That’s probably the best thing I can think of.

Carlo

Also depends on how you encode. If your music is mostly .flac, it will be larger than .mp3.

If it helps you estimate, my music collection is 4808 albums, compressed as mp3 320Kb files. It consumes 535GB of disc space.

This is the total size of the mp3 files? Or the meta data that Plex maintains about those mp3s? I’m curious about the meta data if that’s not what you quoted.

@americannight said:
If it helps you estimate, my music collection is 4808 albums, compressed as mp3 320Kb files. It consumes 535GB of disc space.

It’s the size of the mp3 files actually. Sorry didn’t catch you were asking about meta data. I’d be curious how to find that info as well.

If it helps, I have two music libraries on my server. The first has 3482 artists, 7027 albums and 31,896 tracks. The second has 3538 artists, 7024 albums and 32,035 tracks. My album metadata folder contains 226,400 items and is 5.0 GB. My artist metadata folder contains 211,648 items and takes 9.9 GB.

I myself had no idea the metadata took up that much space. Given that the two libraries are basically the same I’ll be removing one if space becomes an issue!