Emby random file access keeps HD spinning

[Veggav 9]

I have emby running on my unraid server and the file activity plugin keeps showing random access to a few files.

This happens once per day and every time I turn emby server on.

 

From what I can see the files it tries to check are the ones without subtitles. 

I have the opensubtitles plugin installed.

 

I know Emby uses file hashes for subtitle match but can't it store the hash somewhere?

 

Or even better can't it give up searching subtitles or at least have an option to stop trying?

 

Since my library is spread across 4 hds, it's a waste to have all of those to spin up for nothing.

 

 

I know that creating dummy .srt files would stop this behavior but it's not the kind of workaround I would like to do.

 

[Q-Droid 990]

"Download missing subtitles" is a scheduled task in Emby that you can remove if you don't want it to look for available subs missing from your libray.

[Luke 42086]

Hi, no, we don't store a record of the hash anywhere, but it's something to consider for the future.

[Veggav 9]

"Download missing subtitles" is a scheduled task in Emby that you can remove if you don't want it to look for available subs missing from your libray.

 

I can't find this options anywhere. 

 

Can you point met to it?

 

Also I've removed real time monitoring. Hope this helps to reduce the number of times those files get accessed. 

[Luke 42086]

Just turn off the subtitle downloading for each library in the same place that you turned it on.

 

That will stop the subtitle downloading for both new media being added as well as the background task.

[Q-Droid 990]

I can't find this options anywhere. 

 

Can you point met to it?

 

Also I've removed real time monitoring. Hope this helps to reduce the number of times those files get accessed. 

 

 Menu (Admin) -> Manage Server -> Scheduled Tasks, it's one of the Library tasks. 

Edited July 14, 2019 by Q-Droid

[Happy2Play 9785]

You have to click on the specific Scheduled Task in order to see the Triggers for the task.

Edited July 14, 2019 by Happy2Play

[Veggav 9]

Never noticed the schedule tasks. 

 

Searching for subtitles was set for every 12 hours, now it's set for a weekly hour. 

Much better, left my server idling during the night and all my hard drives are off. 

 

Thanks for the tip, much appreciated.