Plex Music super long scanning time problem

Plex Media Server Metadata & Adding Files
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I have a very strange music scanning problem. Using latest Plex Server, using default Music library settings. The music scanning time is super unusually long.

For example, please test this sample file:

The zip has 2 albums in MP3 format.

With Plex Server on both QNAP and Windows, scanning this 2 albums folder, takes at least 30mins to over 1 hour!

This can’t be right, right? I hope someone can tell me what’s wrong with my music files, or it’s Plex server setting issue (using default settings now).

Thanks!

Server Version#: 1.32.3.7162
Player Version#:
<If providing server logs please do NOT turn on verbose logging, only debug logging should be enabled>

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Remove the embedded cover from all files, then test again. Leave only the external cover.jpg

To speed up scanning, embed an AlbumArtist meta tag.

The single-disc album contains 2 instances of the Album Title meta tag.

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I was able to pin it down to the Brandenburg Concertos album.
What ever I did, the scanner would hang on this one.
I even completely rewrote the mp3 file structure using a very thorough mp3 repair tool.

I will forward this one to the developers.

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Thanks for checking my question!

I use MP3Tag to remove all embedded artwork, and added AlbumArtist on the 2 albums. Then scan the folder again in Plex. It still takes around 30mins to scan. It makes no difference!

On the same Windows PC, MusicBee only took a few seconds to scan the 2 albums!

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