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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wow.

Ok, I don't have anywhere near that amount of media, but MythTV takes seconds to rescan ~2TB of videos and maybe a minute to get any missing details like fanart, etc.

Similar amount for music - but I feed it the files after I've run them through Picard.

I've not done a complete rescan of eveything for ages, but from memory it's like an hour absolute tops. More like ~30 mins.

And that's on an underclocked CPU (for quietness).

[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

I found the link

“Library scans are expected to take (way) longer in 10.11 because we are now a) properly validating all existing data and b) properly applying concurrency limits. Usually only the first scan after the upgrade takes significantly longer because it will fix some data inconsistencies we can not repair while doing the initial migrations. Any subsequent scan should be faster but if you add a lot of new files it will still take longer than before because of the concurrency limit.”

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/15070

From the thread for people with more realistic media libraries like yours (5-20tb) the initial scan is more like a few hours. However, if you’re like me and hoard shit expect it to potentially take days