Library scan issues

[Retsoru 0]

Hiya,

 

First off, I think emby is great and I paid for the lifetime membership thing (wasn't sure if I should post in premiere support or not). However I'm having a problem that I've seen discussed in a few other threads.

 

I'm running Version 3.0.5912.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 lts. I run emby in a KVM vm that is NFS mounted to my media. I have around 5-6TB of content. Mostly encoded DVDs and boxing. Primarily I view things over the roku client; I moved to this setup over xbmc/kodi and htpc to make things simpler for my gf.

 

My problem has to do with my library being removed and having to do full scans when new content is added.

 

I understand that inotify is required to automagically detect new content and it doesn't work (well) over NFS, but there are a couple simple changes that could make it much better for *nix users that do remote mounted of shared content.

 

1) Occasionally, emby server is started before my media is mounted (for a variety of reasons). The result of that is emby always removes _all_ my media even if I remount everything and restart emby. I have to do a full media scan to get my content back. This seems like a bug or a design decision to revisit. Removing all content (even if it's not on the filesystem) should require some sort of manual admin activity imo.

 

2) Adding new content always requires a full library scan in order for it to show up. I get the inotify thing, but surely there is a way to handle it a bit more gracefully? Perhaps just run a straight up count of files in all known subdirectories and periodically scan for anything new. Anything is better than a full library scan which for me takes quite a long time.

 

Alternative solution to #2; the ability to scan specific subdirectories of a library would help immensely and should be pretty easy to implement.

 

Thanks - I hope to continue using Emby for all my in-house media needs but these 30+ minute scans to be able to view new content is killing me.

 

Let me know if I can provide any more info.

[Luke 42077]

Hi, welcome. Yes for #1, there are improvements we can make relating to handling offline media.

 

For #2, you can enable the realtime monitor under library -> advanced, or you can refresh specific directories using the metadata manager, which you can open from the main menu. then you just click on a directory and use the dot menu in the upper right corner.