# PMS Sonic Analysis on Mac Mini M4

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**Category:** Plex Media Server\
**Tags:** server-mac\
**Created:** [December 15, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-sonic-analysis-on-mac-mini-m4/898935 "2024-12-15T10:22:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jakademus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@Jakademus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jakademus)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-sonic-analysis-on-mac-mini-m4/898935/1 "2024-12-15T10:22:44Z")

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Server Version#: 1.41.3

I have a Mini M4- and Sonic Analysis started only after I enabled Rosetta and relaunched PMS. What are people’s experiences with Sonic Analysis on Intel silicon?

My first post with a few specific questions, TIA for your help-

- Is Sonic Analysis supported natively on Mac Mini M4?
- Does Rosetta still need to be enabled for PMS after Sonic Analysis is completed? (i.e. can PlexAmp Sonic Similarity features still be used?)
- Is Sonic Analysis progress, e.g. ‘N of M albums analysed’, visible beyond the ‘Processing xyz albums’ note at top of Dashboard? **Update:** I now see a little ‘ticker’ in the thingy, so that’s progress! 🤩  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/4/1/d/41d7303284d7243d596eb53f3122efffc958efc0.png)

**Update / another question:**. I now also see PMS Dashboard showing the ‘burn’ on the CPU, of which the uptick is 100% due to Sonic Analysis…  
Strangely this claims ‘System’ is spiking up, but isn’t _owning_ the uptick on CPU as being PMS (flat green line at the bottom). Why not?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/a/d/3/ad3263f600d842ec920626b27067c74f73b8062d.png)

Thanks for your help

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**Author:** ![Jakademus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@Jakademus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jakademus)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-sonic-analysis-on-mac-mini-m4/898935/2 "2024-12-22T08:28:24Z")

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Can I switch off Rosetta on my Mac PMS?

Sonic analysis has completed, so until server needs to run this again it shouldn’t need Rosetta- amIrite?

@support_please ?

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**Author:** ![Jakademus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dbc845/32.png) [@Jakademus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Jakademus)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2024, 9:06am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-sonic-analysis-on-mac-mini-m4/898935/3 "2024-12-29T09:06:58Z")

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Guess I’ll give it a try without Rosetta and report back…

So far the PMS services have been running as Intel, and as screenshot shows PMS has indeed been a hungry little piggy!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/0/9/3/09382918e347184a0bd4b976705f4c9b9d50d4be.png)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 9:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/pms-sonic-analysis-on-mac-mini-m4/898935/4 "2025-03-29T09:07:40Z")

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