Server Version#: 1.3.1.916-1cb2c34d
Player Version#: 1.3.1
I recently changed the way I laid out my media library for music so I could use the QNAP Qsync to automatically copy my music files between my Mac Mini and my QNAP. I’m not sure it’s working yet. That entailed creating a new shared folder, moving all of the files from the one folder to the other, deleting the old folder and then changing my Plex server to recognize the new folder for the music library.
I’ve got about 18K+ files on that music library but it’s taken around 2 full days of scanning and it still appears to be incomplete. I installed a new version of the server app so it restarted Plex and it’s now continuing to scan.
4.8.4 isn’t a server version. (Settings - Server - General is where you see the version.
I just rebuilt using 1.18.1, from scratch, an 18.000 track music library. It did take a while (90 min) for the metadata to populate. Engineering deliberately dialed it back. Again, this is a completely COLD REBUILD. Converting / upgrading an existing is going to be a lot faster. (my next test)
You will also notice how they changed the display style. Rather than outputing all the empty album coverts, now they favor showing up when ready.
there is a balance to strike between monopolizing a poor NAS for days on end at full speed versus running a 1-2 core steady rate load (which is what I’m seeing)
Music is a problem. Some folks 100k, 250k, 500K+ libraries How anyone finds time to listen to it is another matter but expecting it to be done within a few minutes is also kinda unreasonable too, right?
I don’t have a problem with it taking a few hours. It’s been running constantly for 3-4 days. Even using 20-25% of 4 cores for that long seems like an issue not just normal processing.
I’m using a QNAP TS-451+ with Intel Cerleron 4 Core 2.0GHz with 32GB of memory.
Even if it takes along time it would be nice to have some idea of progress such as a % completed or files complete/Total files to process.
Granted, “Disc 7” isn’t much to go on in that screenshot but it changes every few seconds.
Plex/Web is constantly receiving progress updates from PMS.
The challenge here is “How Much” information makes sense without overload ?
Instead of just the bottom-most directory, perhaps the bottom two directories ?
(e.g. Boston/Disc 1)
The product team will be very receptive of a change if we can show a good reason and how it helps.
I’ve considered asking for "Number Remaining: " which will increase as PMS scans further in the scanning process. (it will fluctuate up and down).
I did find that but it wasn’t tremendously helpful. The Mac App doesn’t show the same amount fo information as the server app itself. All I ever see on the Mac app i scanning Music with no changes whatsoever.
When I look at the server app itself I can see it appears to be scanning different music files however they go by so quickly and don’t seem to be in any sequence. I see a music file that should be near the top of my music library alphabetically followed by several (but not all files) Yes songs, I don’t think you are scanning based on location near the center of the disc which would be more random but by the file directories order which also may not technically be alphabetical. Either way it’s not possible to really view progress. Also the little circle item to the far right showing progress also cycles to full circle then starts again almost always it appears to stop on the same file or directory before restarting.
I can’t be of any help with individual apps. However much they might display, the reasons for that are whatever was decided.
You seeing them out of sequence does not surprise me. As directories are read (encounted) while descending the tree, they are added. Alphabetical order isn’t guaranteed because of how the readdir() system call works.
I did submit a request for the server info to display more.
Plex/Web already sees the notification for each file being processed; PMS sends this already.
I have asked they now display more information:
Album / disc / file name
or
Artist / Album / file name
Also show how many songs are still pending.
It should be noted, “Pending” will fluctuate as PMS reads through directories.
As it starts scanning, it will increase.
Because some albums will match quickly, it is entirely possible to see it decrease only to increase again as more file names are queued up.
By alphabetically I meant alphabetically in the directory tree or at least how it displays in Finder or the QNAP file station. It’s still actually scanning music files meaning it’s now been scanning 18K files for a full 10 days. That still seems like a problem rather than that’s how it works. It using about 25% of my CPU resources (sometimes more) and lots of memory (up to 90%).
The pending isn’t much help if you don’t scan and identify all files. That only takes a few seconds on most queries such as determining files and folder sizes. Then with a full count you don’t have to worry about the counts going up/down as it queues up a single folder of music.
Again it should not repeatedly scan the same files over and over as the logs indicate. Nor should it take 6 weeks to complete running 24/7.
I take it that the software only needs to scan a specific music file once to complete its information collection. As the logs show the same files appear multiple times not just once. If only one pass of a file is necessary then you have a software problem as the logs clearly indicate a single file is scanned multiple times.
