Sonic Analysis File Location Windows 10?

Plex Media Server
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Can anyone tell me where Plex stores the Sonic Analysis data for a music library on a Windows 10 machine?

My main Plex server is a TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD) but since I wanted to check out this Sonic Analysis thing I started another Windows 10 (Intel) based server to look at my music. It took days to Sonically analyze my music library. I have since started another Windows 10 instance of Plex server on a more powerful machine that I leave on 24/7 for just my music. I thought Plex would have to reanalyze my music library but it hasn’t. I’m thinking the new install somehow found the original sonic analysis data the first machine made.

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That won’t be possible, unless you have copied the Plex data folder from the old to the new machine.

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@OttoKerner What won’t be possible, having the Sonic feature on the new computer? Sorry I could not open the ‘Plex data folder’ link.

I would have thought I’d end up with a new Plex data folder on the new computer. I have the original computer I ran the Sonic Analysis on turned off.

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There are currently some side effects of a DDoS attack. Wait a few hours and try again.

The Plex data folder is the location where Plex server stores all its data. The metadata, posters, the database and also the results of its various analysations.

If you did not copy these data from the first to the second Windows Plex server, then the sonic analysis has to be performed again.

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I did not copy any data from one computer to the other. The second computer did scan my ./music library and re-imported all posters, but it has not started any Sonic Analysis. I do have the Sonic Analysis option check on the new computer.

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Sonic Analysis should be set to perform “As a Scheduled Task” only, if a music library is created anew. Otherwise it would try to analyse the whole library at once, which will probably fail. (or at least bog down your server machine)
Scheduled Tasks are by default set to run at night.

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I just changed it to “As a Scheduled Task or when media is added” and the Dashboard now shows Sonic Analysis Processing 6650 albums.

Task Manager show Plex Media Server only consuming 5.5% of my CPU so it should be too painful.

Edit: just checked task manager again and there are now 7 PMS tasks running, each at 12.1%, with my CPU load at 96%… this is a little more painful! lol

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@OttoKerner Since both of these computers are looking at the exact same music library can I just copy the whole “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Plex Media Server” folder from the old machine to the new one and be done with it?

BTW I can now access the Plex data folder link.

Thanks for all your help!

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You can do that only if

  • all the media files of all the libraries are identical, not just the music library
  • all the media files are accessible under the exact same drive letter+folder names+file names on both servers
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@OttoKerner On these two computers the only library each instance of PMS is looking at is d:\music I should be good.

Since the new computer has already finished it’s sonic analysis, the only thing I’d really like to get are 5 playlists. Two are auto generated and 3 are playlist I’ve made. With one of the auto generated playlists being 5 star songs, where does PMS keep it’s 5 start rating? I don’t think in the meta data of the mp3 file so I couldn’t just move the 5 playlist files.

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These are all in the database.

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