# Selective library scan

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-library-scan/675116>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [January 6, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-library-scan/675116 "2021-01-06T13:06:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![greavous420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/53a042/32.png) [@greavous420](https://forums.plex.tv/u/greavous420)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-library-scan/675116/1 "2021-01-06T13:06:24Z")

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Would be awesome to have the ability to choose which libraries scan automatically.

I have a music library that I also use with rekordbox so has plenty of files with odd albums/metadata/isn’t on metadata dbs and it seems to be scanning that library all the time which I believe is due to metadata/matches.

Basically I want my other libraries to auto scan still but have this library only scan manually.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-library-scan/675116/2 "2021-01-06T13:25:28Z")

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A post was merged into an existing topic: [Per Library Scan Settings Option](https://forums.plex.tv/t/per-library-scan-settings-option/319099)

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/selective-library-scan/675116/3 "2021-01-06T13:25:28Z")

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