SOLVED! - Plex gets stuck spinning at 33% with all videos with EAC3 EAC audio (Plex recently stopped playing EAC3)

[shark2k]

If the inotify limit is being reached and causing your issue, you should be able to use the steps in this post to increase that and be able to keep the “Scan my library automatically” option checked.

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Increase the number of directories Linux can monitor (inotify) for PMS The default size of the Linux inotify table is 8192 directories (*1). When PMS is configured to update automatically when media is added, with properly organized media, especially music, this table rapidly fills and exceeds the default allocation requiring you to increase it. The solution to this is straight forward. Increasing the table size is easy. The first step is to determine how many directories to alloca…

-Shark2k