v4.9.1.80 Movies Being Rescanned

[redaktorn 23]

Hi Friends,
I have just updated to version 4.9.1.80 and started a library scan.
It really goes in slowmotion. Moving from 15.6% to 15,7% has taken 20 minutes.
I hope this is only i first run problem after upgrade. If not it seems to be several hours needed for a scan.
Attaching a log.

The scan seems to spend a huge amount of time searching for online info for each item.
(A few lines follows - the rest in the log)

2025-10-02 03:25:21.749 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/193893?api_key=x_secret4_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null

2025-10-02 03:25:21.766 Info HttpClient: Http response 200 from https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/193893?api_key=x_secret4_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null after 16ms

2025-10-02 03:25:21.774 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret5_x&i=tt1924435&plot=short&r=json

2025-10-02 03:25:21.957 Info HttpClient: Http response 200 from https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret5_x&i=tt1924435&plot=short&r=json after 183ms

2025-10-02 03:25:21.958 Info HttpClient: GET https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/movies/901/extended?meta=translations

2025-10-02 03:25:22.151 Info HttpClient: Http response 200 from https://api4.thetvdb.com/v4/movies/901/extended?meta=translations after 193ms

2025-10-02 03:25:22.844 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: /var/packages/EmbyServer/target/bin/ffprobe -i file:"/volume1/Media/Emby_Movies/New_Papa3/Life of a King (2013) [1080p]/Life.of.a.King.2013.1080p.BluRay.x264.YIFY.mp4" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data

2025-10-02 03:25:22.956 Info MediaProbeManager: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 0

2025-10-02 03:25:22.974 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/201550?api_key=x_secret4_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null

2025-10-02 03:25:22.989 Info HttpClient: Http response 200 from https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/201550?api_key=x_secret4_x&append_to_response=alternative_titles,reviews,casts,releases,images,keywords,trailers&language=en-US&include_image_language=en-US,null after 15ms

2025-10-02 03:25:22.991 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=x_secret5_x&i=tt2708254&plot=short&r=json

[redaktorn 23]

I think I forgot the log.
I can also see in my Synology DS423+ that it is a lot of reading writing going on in my diskpool.
EMBY Server is the only application running.
Picture attached.

embyserver.txt

Edited October 2, 2025 by redaktorn

[Happy2Play 9780]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

Strange. seems to be OK in my testing.   @Happy2Playare you able to reproduce?

 

Working on my systems.

[Ronstang 293]

5 hours ago, kbeck said:

Man I'm about to go f..ing ballistic here. I have 84,000 Custom tags I've spent 2 years working on. Now I see thousands have been changed to all lower case. Thousands... that I've just done in the last few weeks. [redacted]

I am sorry you are having issues and I understand your frustration when you spend tons of time on custom stuff and emby erases it in a folder scan in minutes because a couple years ago I lost a lot of custom album art in a flash.

I'm not sure what tags are or what they are used for and I don't think I have any unless I am using the wrong nomenclature.  Could you explain what the tags are and how they are used?  I have not restarted my server but it has updated and I don't want to fubar a year's work either so I have been reluctant to restart the server.

Edited October 2, 2025 by seanbuff
quoted redacted text

[redaktorn 23]

5 hours ago, redaktorn said:

I think I forgot the log.
I can also see in my Synology DS423+ that it is a lot of reading writing going on in my diskpool.
EMBY Server is the only application running.
Picture attached.

embyserver.txt 3.06 MB · 0 downloads

[redaktorn 23]

I can see now that the initial library scan last night after updating took app. 1 hour and 20 minutes.
I did a new scan now in the morning and it says:
2025-10-02 09:17:27.443 Info TaskManager: Scan media library Completed after 1 minute(s) and 14 seconds
So - it seems to be just the first library scan that needs extra time.

I do have a problem with trailers loosing their artwork and metadata.
Attaching pictures on that.
Playing a trailer is no problem. It starts just fine.

So far no other problems noted.

Edited October 2, 2025 by redaktorn

[unisoft 352]

Does this mean if I have created a TAG for a video file to be played for Advantage Point Intros, that this Emby update will simply erase them?

If so, not upgrading at this point. I'll lose thousands of tags.

[scb99 245]

Would it be a good idea for a Stable => Stable major version upgrade to FORCE a database backup as part of the process maybe? Then for problems like the above the process is reversible.

[gihayes 47]

I have a pretty large library so after the update it was scanning from 11:59 on the 30th when the update was installed until I restarted a few hours ago. All seems fine except for the trailers. They have no posters, only blank placeholders, and they won't play from the windows app or the android app on my phone. They play fine from a browser tho'. Also the Vantage Point plugin skips over them.

Update: Trailers won't play on my phone using Edge, but play using chrome.

Edited October 2, 2025 by gihayes
Update

[Luke 42077]

20 hours ago, redaktorn said:

I think I forgot the log.
I can also see in my Synology DS423+ that it is a lot of reading writing going on in my diskpool.
EMBY Server is the only application running.
Picture attached.

embyserver.txt 3.06 MB · 1 download

This appears to be due to the movie library rescanning. This has happened to a very small number of users. Apologies for the disruption.

[redaktorn 23]

21 minutes ago, Luke said:

This appears to be due to the movie library rescanning. This has happened to a very small number of users. Apologies for the disruption.

No need for apologies - you all do a fantastic work.
And after the initial scan everything works just fine - except the trailers - but I presume that is connected to the recent update of trailer plugin.
Hopefully fixed soon.

[Luke 42077]

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