Server Version#: 1.14.3.9292 (windows 11)
Player Version#: N/A
I’m trying to catalog all my music (a fair bit, over 32 Gb, but not crazy huge), and just can’t seem to get Plex Media Server to correctly scan it all. I got close by gradually adding subfolders to the folder that the music library points, but on adding the last folder, it seems to be trying to re-scan all the tracks it had already added, but simply gets stuck on the first one it finds (doesn’t matter what it is, I can delete it and it gets stuck on the next one).
The strange thing is that in the log it appears it’s actually scanning the new folder I’ve tried to add (I can the filenames mentioned) and the very last two lines are:
After this I have to kill the Plex Media Server process and restart to get any response.
Note that none of the files that are in that final folder have shown up at all in the library.
None of the commands to stop or rescan libraries help at all.
Just to update, in the time it took me to write that post (and do a bit of research or whatever), it does seem to have “unstuck” itself, though it’s still displaying a message that it’s trying to scan the first folder in the library:
I can now also actually see the tracks from the last folder I added, so I guess it has somehow recovered from whatever state it was in. However the problem is still occurring when I add further folders (and it’s now been over an hour since I did so. Again, the logs show it’s trying to process files in those folders, but they’re not showing up in the library. Again the last lines in the log are
Dec 15, 2024 14:11:35.576 [7436] DEBUG - Match: Album distance 0.491 — {‘album’: [0.55000], ‘artist’: [0.57143], ‘missing_tracks’: [1.00000, 1.00000, 1.00000, 1.00000, 1.00000, 1.00000, 1.00000], ‘tracks’: [0.57283, 0.05687, 0.05687, 0.32815, 0.26150, 0.13674, 0.05687], ‘unmatched_discs’: [1.00000], ‘year’: [0.75000]}
Dec 15, 2024 14:11:35.577 [7436] ERROR - [Time] Date looks invalid: 1968–1–1)
One other (unrelated) question: is there a way I can see in tabular format what Genre/Mood etc. it believes each track has? Having trouble getting smart playlists to behave properly but I think it’s because it has different ideas about what the metadata values are than what shows up in Windows explorer (despite configuring it to prefer local tags).
