Server Version#: 4.138.0
Player Version#: (web)
QNAP TS-853 Pro
I’ve noticed that my servers sat there constantly trying to process Sonic analysis with not a lot of progress happening. My QNAP is a little old but an Intel chipset and in general works pretty well.
I’ve temporarily made it Schedule-only+new whilst I figure out why its not processing faster. I trigger it by re-scanning the library.
From the logs I’ve looked at I think I’m seeing some kind of timeout issue but I don’t know why.
I tried putting the process priority to Normal to see if I could speed the analsis but thats not helped much.
I’ve just rebooted the server prior to gathering logs to see if that helps too.
I’m wondering if Sonic is worth it… does it only benefit for PlexAmp ?
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:11.291 [139789413989176] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] In directory: “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/music-analysis-input-b064d19a-5cad-4f3a-a62a-e933ab0ecd82”
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:11.291 [139789413989176] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 6573
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:14.340 [139789413989176] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS=‘/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/7592546-570471557d92948f58893deb-linux-x86_64/’ “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Plex Transcoder” -i “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/Music/Artist Albums/M/Metallica/Hero of the Day/05 # Damage Case (Live) # Metallica.mp3” -ac 1 -ar 16000 -acodec pcm_s16le track-0005.wav
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:14.340 [139789413989176] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] In directory: “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/music-analysis-input-b064d19a-5cad-4f3a-a62a-e933ab0ecd82”
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:14.371 [139789413989176] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 6836
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:15.675 [139789416098616] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS=‘/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/7592546-570471557d92948f58893deb-linux-x86_64/’ “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Plex Transcoder” -i “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/Music/Artist Albums/M/Metallica/Hero of the Day/06 # Too Late Too Late (Live) # Metallica.mp3” -ac 1 -ar 16000 -acodec pcm_s16le track-0006.wav
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:15.676 [139789416098616] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] In directory: “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/music-analysis-input-b064d19a-5cad-4f3a-a62a-e933ab0ecd82”
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:15.686 [139789416098616] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 6948
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:17.491 [139789334440760] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis] Decoded 7 files for input to the analyzer.
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:17.491 [139789334440760] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Job running: FFMPEG_EXTERNAL_LIBS=‘/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/Plex\ Media\ Server/Codecs/7592546-570471557d92948f58893deb-linux-x86_64/’ “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Plex Media Server” “Plex Music Analyzer” /share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/music-analysis-b576238c-cb71-49b6-99aa-f1adf581ca21 /share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Resources/Music.tflite labels index.txt
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:17.491 [139789334440760] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] In directory: “/share/CE_CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/PlexMediaServer/Library/tmp/music-analysis-input-b064d19a-5cad-4f3a-a62a-e933ab0ecd82”
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:17.492 [139789334440760] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis/JobRunner] Jobs: Starting child process with pid 6965
Sep 15, 2024 12:50:17.492 [139789334440760] DEBUG - [MusicAnalysis] Activity: updated activity d87be978-c283-4793-92d4-abd6e3e0360a - completed 0.0% - Sonic Analysis
I found if I grep the log for MusicAnalysis I think I see a bit more info/progress… so it does seem to be moving, just taking an age. Is this a good way to “monitor” sonic analysis ?
So I left plex scanning the audio files for over 2 weeks.
During that time I had to stop plex/restart plex because the sonic analysis just seemed to freeze up.
I eventually got to a point a last week where it seemed to think nothing was left to do.
But now, each time I restart plex, it suddenly decides theres 200+ albums to scan.
I can upload logs here - but how do I get plex’s support attention here?
I recently acquired an M2 Mac Mini to replace an X86 Ubuntu machine, and am running into a similar issue. My server constantly shows “Processing 3 albums” with no status bar, and I’ve also had to reboot a few times over the past several weeks.
After a while it’ll no longer show the sonic analysis as a task running, but after restarting Plex it’s back again.
Version 1.41.3.9292 of plex server running latest Mac OS as of this post.
