I have curated a collection of 9969 movies, 501 television series, and 37,417 episodes. They are setup in a “movies” and “television” libraries. When I hit 10,000 movies, am I going to start running into problems? It looks like the Plex home screen only has a four digit display. Will I have problems seeing all of the items in the NVidia Shield or Roku apps?
If this happens is there an easy way to split libraries without having to redo a ton of work or downloading a lot of metadata?
Thanks.
What makes you think that?
No.
Though with such a massive library, you might wanna think about optimizing your server for optimum Plex performance.
e.g.
Additional measures depend on your server platform and your individual usage of Plex.
Thank you.
It looked like it only had 4 digits available unlike the display for episodes. I guess I’ll find out about that soon.
I currently have an SSD for the data folder, and I agree that it helps immensely. The collection is spread across 10 external 8TB drives and a couple of internal drives. Each drive has a a “movies” and “television” folder that have under 500 folders as I have all the DTS-HD sound format movies in a separate folder. I’ll try to keep them under that number if it helps performance.
The only thing I had to turn off was the constant scanning and I set it to only scan every 24 hours or when manually triggered. I found that it was running 24/7 and taking about 20% of the CPU just to run the scan.
It’s all running on a desktop PC with a core i5-6600k with 16GB of RAM and Windows 10. Hopefully that’s enough horsepower as nothing has required transcoding so far through Roku or the Shield.
This shouldn’t happen unless you have other software updating the ‘changed at’ timestamps of your folders.
But I agree that updating it manually works just as well – particularly since you know best when you have new items.
I followed the link, but there is no instruction on how to change that folder. Can someone share how to do that?
Huh. That option doesn’t exist for me (maybe because I am on a Mac)?
For Mac, see Help moving 55GB metadata folder
Agh, Symbolic links - thanks. …was thinking there was a line in a config file somewhere.
Ah yes. The OP was using Windows so I assumed you were doing the same.
Just a quick update. I’m at 10,013 movies with no issues encountered so far. Both NVidia Shield and Roku Plex apps show all movies without truncating the library. Thanks again.
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