Library Scanning - Large Music Library

[DavidS1977 9]

Hi,

 

I have a large music library which I've tried to add to Emby. It has about 642 Album Artists in it.

 

Whenever I try to carry out the scheduled task or the specific library scan, it just stops at 70.2%. I've attached the latest log file but even know I can see the library scan move up to 70.2%, I haven't seen any sign of the Library being scanned in the log file.

 

Please can someone help?

 

Gareth

Log.txt

[Luke 42085]

Hi, I can almost guarantee it hasn't stopped. I would just be patient and allow it to finish. Thanks.

[DavidS1977 9]

It has been running on and off for a week so far. I'll let it run another week and come back to you.

[Guest asrequested]

Try disabling the download artwork options in the library. Run a scan. If it completes, quicker, run another scan, then re-enable the download artwork. I've had this issue, and after I do this, everything scans, much quicker.

[DavidS1977 9]

Thank you. I've made this change now and will leave this for a while. Thank you.

[DavidS1977 9]

The strangest thing is happening. I keep leaving it for a long time until it stops picking up new media in other libraries, then I restart it. Bizarrely, all the missing artists appear to be in the Metadata Manager, and when I click to expand them there, and then go back to "Album Artists" they suddenly appear. I can then "Identify" the artist and they seem to stay then.

 

Is my library just screwed up or do I just need to keep on clicking on the Metadata Manager?

[Luke 42085]

I would just let it run and allow it to finish

[DavidS1977 9]

I'll be away for 3 days now -  fingers crossed it will complete then.

[DavidS1977 9]

Okay - I left the library scan running from friday night until i got back on Monday lunchtime. The scan is still showing as the same percentage complete (70.2%) and the latest music area is still showing the same albums.

 

How much longer should I leave it for?

Edited December 11, 2017 by garethuk

[aspdend 177]

Okay - I left the library scan running from friday night until i got back on Monday lunchtime. The scan is still showing as the same percentage complete (70.2%) and the latest music area is still showing the same albums.

 

How much longer should I leave it for?

I've had issues like this before with my music library and I've raced it down to some corrupted files on my server - I think there were some .nfo that were historic and had become corrupted and also some of the metadata inherent in the mp3/FLAC files was hincky...for me, removing the .nfo files and also running the music files thorugh mp3 tag or musicbrainz picard did the trick...

[DavidS1977 9]

Thank you. This is the sort of advice I was really hoping for. I've been trying on and off for about a month to get my music library to scan - but each time I usually restart the task/server as it seems to stop working after a while. This time I've left it running for nearly 3 days and nothing has moved at all beyond the initial place it stopped (70.2%).

 

I'm going to try enabling debug logging and try again to see if I can find the place it stops working.

[DavidS1977 9]

Right - by switching on debug logging I was able to see the point that a library scan stopped working. It was with very large FLAC files so I'm currently temporarily moving them into another location to try and get all the other files loaded in.

 

I'm not sure what I should do about bringing these larger files back in though but I guess I can deal with those when I've found everything else.

[Luke 42085]

can you attach the server log? thanks.