As a test I installed Plex for Windows to test the Download function here is what I found.
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Plex for Windows is broken
Plex for Windows fails to play music files (video ok) - #4 by Frankz1634 -
But it can download, up to a point. I was able to download 7 albums in about a minute. But if I tried the same “All Music” Smart list the same slowdown is seen. So there seems to be something that builds up and slows it down to a crawl as the number of tracks increases into the thousands.
7 Albums
Also of note in the next two screen shots is that two songs are downloading at the same time.
23 Albums (717 Tracks)
Things are starting to fall apart at 3500 tracks in a Play List. You will note the downloads are starting to gap and the CPU usage is falling.
Lastly I noted that it took a bit of time for the server to recover from me canceling the 3500+ download. It was reporting high network usage long after the client’s network traffic returned to normal. The CPU usage on the Dashboard stopped reporting until the phantom network traffic completed and things calmed down in the console.
