Any news on this issue?
I’ve been experiencing this same problem for several months now.
I own 12 libraries for info. I also tried ChuckPA’s PlexDBrepair on my Plex database with no result.
It seems the more common the words used, the greater the chance of Search failing/timing out.
If I search for “The Little Mermaid (1989)” for example on my server :
- “Little Mermaid” → Instantly found!
- “Little” → Instantly found! (with many other results but it’s there!)
- “Mermaid” → Instantly found!
- “The Little Mermaid” (perfect match) ends most of the time with no results found BUT sometimes manage to find it if I “bruteforce” the search.
- “The mermaid” → No results no matter what
- “The Little” → No results no matter what
My friend’s server who also has “The Little Mermaid (1989)”
- “Little Mermaid” → Instantly found!
- “The Little Mermaid” → Instantly found!
- “The Little” → Instantly found!
and so on…
It’s depressing, really.
When adding both our servers as Sources, searching for common content will end most of the time with my friend’s content AND a warning “some search requests timed out” related to mine.
Important note, might help on where to look at maybe : Search on PlexAMP works flawlessly.
Searching for music content on regular Plex clients is a mess too unless you avoid common words BUT NOT ON PLEXAMP. It works flawlessly there. This issue is specificly related to search on regular Plex clients.
I hope a fix will come in the near future because talking like a robot when looking for my content on my beloved Plex is tiresome in the long run
I also did 2 previous posts on another topic before finding this one.
