Note to self about Plex

[Dylan]

After loading about 1TB of data onto a Plex server, give Plex a break to process all of that data. After my copies were complete I couldn't understand why Plex responsiveness was almost zero. Until I logged onto the dashboard with the activity button constantly spinning. It is trying to pull a TON of meta-data to associate with all of the movies.

So yeah...don't expect to play all of your favorite films and shows just after a huge copy.

 

 

[Mobius]

i have around 50tb of stuff so thats def gonna take a while when i finally transfer it.

[Theo]

53 minutes ago, Dylan said:

It is trying to pull a TON of meta-data to associate with all of the movies.

Depends how you set up your library settings / scheduled tasks. If you've got it creating thumbnails, credit detection and other tasks when new content is added, then yes on first install it'll take a while!

But likewise, you could allocate more CPU resource to Plex to speed things up?

My 10TB of data was done in 12-24 hours

[Dylan]

Went for round 2 today and about an hour after importing the files this is what the Plex dashboard looks like

 

[hammerdown]

mine took about  1 hour to do 472 4k dolby atmos 7.1  movies but also bear in mind  certain tvs have trouble certain sound formats

[Soong]

Remember you can tell it to not do this on library change and instead do it as a scheduled task so you can have it run overnight so you don't notice. Just make sure your timezone is correct! Mine was set midnight to 6am but the timezone being wrong meant it took place during the day until I noticed. 🤣