These environment variables we pass are being exported to the next child process of our shell,in this case our plex media scanner commands, and upon exiting our user shell the variables defined are lost so we need to add them each time. Refresh metadata: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -refresh -c 1 How to automate the commands with a script Scan files and refresh metadata on section 1, outputs progress: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -srp -c 1Īnalyze files info,cannot be used with refresh metadata: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -analyze -c 1 Knowing the section numbers you can now run the following examples: Root cannot run plex media scanner tasks so make sure you are running the commands as plex user. The commands are being run by root/sudo and as mentioned above, although it needs a simple locale var LC_ALL="C" What(): locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid Terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘std::runtime_error’ You need to pass to the shell environment a variable with the path of plex scanner and verify its presence: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex Media Scanner: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_atomic.so.1.59.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory If Plex installation is ok there should be a plex user: cat /etc/passwd |grep plexĬheck the sections of the library, needed for later commands: /usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex\ Media\ Scanner -list The following commands needs to be executed by user plex, executing them with root or another elevated user will yield no results. Commandsīelow are the commands and the initial setup required on most linux distros: In these cases it is possible to initiate scans through the command line interface. The easiest way to manually analyze the files and refresh metadata is through the web interface, but sometimes access is not possible or fast enough. The usual reason for losing info on a file is when the files are stored in a network share, especially smb shares, following a server restart. Plex Media server needs to periodically scan the media files in the library so it knows the attributes of each file, otherwise the files cannot be played. Goals: Scan, analyze and refresh a Plex media server library in Linux using the command line interface.
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