Slow Library Scanning

[anderbytes 141]

Unfortunately, my Emby server is on a VM, so I cannot attach the files directly (unless I do something like iSCSI, which is a road I'm not going down).  I don't think everyone understands what's going on here.  Every single media server I own (Plex, Kodi, MediaPortal etc.), scans files from this same CIFS share in seconds.  I'm just curious as to why it takes one hour+.  Is it actually looking at every single file (on each scheduled scan) on the share and checking to see if there is updated metadata?  If this is the case, why not have Emby scan JUST the files that were added (using inotfy or FileSystemWatcher), then use the Scheduled scans for the full library.

 

Where do you make it keep the media metadata (nfo) ? in each movie folder, or in emby subfolders?

[Sireone 6]

Where do you make it keep the media metadata (nfo) ? in each movie folder, or in emby subfolders?

 

I don't use .nfo metadata files.  All my movies are in a single share \\nas\movies.

[anderbytes 141]

I don't use .nfo metadata files.  All my movies are in a single share \\nas\movies.

 

I used to complain about speed in the past... then I started separating each movie in a folder, then allowing it to save metadata as NFO inside each folder.

 

Now my scans don't take a minute, at most.

 

You should give it a try.

[Sireone 6]

I used to complain about speed in the past... then I started separating each movie in a folder, then allowing it to save metadata as NFO inside each folder.

 

Now my scans don't take a minute, at most.

 

You should give it a try.

 

I hear ya and I've seen this suggestion in many previous posts.  I don't think the folder structure is the issue here, I think it's the underlying library scan code.  I have over 1400 movie files and I'm not going to start creating folders for each one, just for Emby when all other media servers handles this properly.  I'm sure they'll re-write the code to fix this, but it kinda sucks when your wife tells you she wants to watch this new movie and I have to tell her she has to wait at least and hour so Emby can scan it.

[anderbytes 141]

Well... If I were you, I'd at least let emby create .NFOs for you. Each one named name_of_movie.nfo

 

Also.... I already do one thing: I have a separate library for new movies. After watched... I put them with others.