Sonic Analysis, do folks bother with it?

Nuts is right, It drives me CRAzzzzY and in short no. Its also one of the reasons that twice a year I fully plex dance my entire music library to ensure popular tracks and the track that is reported within the dashboard history is accurate.

I’ll also add, years ago I worked out this process [HowTo] Configure Popular Tracks Section to Prioritise Albums over every other release type! which to most would seem bonkers but for the most part it works for me and I still use it today.

Its all based on naming release types (albums, eps, single, live , compilation etc… ) and then I use folder timestamps to prioritise the albums I want to scan first ensuring some live track does not get scanned first ahead of the album forcing it onto the popular list.