Lots of Music - Best rclone mount setting

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Hoping the great @Animosity022 will give some advice on this but of course am open to any help. I’m using rclone mount and have a lot of music in my Google Cloud which I’m trying to Scan and Stream with Plex

Issue: The scans take FOREVER and seem excessively slow. I believe the issue is with the mount settings I’m using. I use these same settings for video streaming as well…but I have a feeling I should modify/tweak these settings to solve my issue with the music files. So I’d like to create a separate rclone mount to specifically handle/target my music library.

Is there anything in these settings which just scream problem? I imagine the chunk size can drop to 8-32M…Right? But what else if anything?

rclone --allow-non-empty --allow-other mount tdrive: /mnt/tdrive \
                          --uid=1000 --gid=1000 --rc \
                          --size-only
                          --dir-cache-time=72h \
                          --vfs-read-chunk-size=128M
                          --vfs-cache-max-age 675h
                          --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=1G \
                          --buffer-size=64M --syslog --umask 002 --log-level INFO \
                          --config /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
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If it’s just music files, you could try to tweak down the chunk and buffer size to 10M and leave the buffer at the default. Are you able to scan and share a debug log while it is going slow?

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How did this ended?

I tried to use Plex for music with rclone but the performance is terrible.

It takes more than one minute to forward to the next song

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Same result you mentioned. Overall, it just seemed really slow. I haven’t had much time to experiment much with it

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And your mount settings are what? The logs show what?

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And your mount settings are what? The logs show what?

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Which logs should I post?
The ones from Plex as soon as I hit play till the music starts playing? Or the ones from rclone during the same process?

Here you got my mount settings (default ones from Plexguide mount scripts):
[Unit]
Description=TDrive Daemon
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=0
Group=0
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone --allow-non-empty --allow-other mount tdrive: /mnt/tdrive
–uid=1000 --gid=1000 --rc
–size-only --dir-cache-time=2m
–vfs-read-chunk-size=96M --vfs-cache-max-age 675h --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=1G
–buffer-size=48M --syslog --umask 002 --log-level INFO
–config /root/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /mnt/tdrive
TimeoutStopSec=20
KillMode=process
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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That’s a pretty odd config.

I don’t see why you’d want your dir-cache-time to be 2 minutes as nothing would be cached for the most part and you’d make a lot of calls for the directory/file structure.

If you are talking primarily about music files, have a 96M starting chunk size seems to be big. What is the average size of the music files? I’d try something like 16M if that and try to make the buffer-size the same size as your initial chunk size, which relates back to your average music file size.

Not sure on this either: --vfs-cache-max-age 675h. I’d just remove it and leave the 1 hour default.

Those settings would definitely make browsing and forwarding pretty bad.

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OK so now I tried with
rclone mount --allow-non-empty --allow-other --uid=1000 --gid=1000 --rc --size-only --dir-cache-ti me=2m --vfs-read-chunk-size=16M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit=1G --buffer-size=16M --syslog --umask 002 --log-level INFO juanmartin:Music /mnt

But it still takes at least 30 seconds for a song to start playing a song or when I click next to the next song

I have more than 200gb of 320kbps mp3 music, so i don’t know the average file size per song, but I assume it would be a bit less than 14MB

Any idea of what I could change to make it better? I got the impression that the performance is even worst than when trying to play video!

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Are you playing directly from the mount? Can you share the log file in DEBUG of what happens when you hit play?

A 2 minute directory-cache time is really not a good choice. I’m not sure why you’d have that set so low.

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Yes I’m playing directly from the mount. I will check the DEBUG log of rclone to see what happens when I hit play.

The only reason why I have that setup it’s because that was the default one that came with plexguide.com scripts. I’m happy to use a different one more optimized for music streaming

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I’m not sure what the goal of their guide is and what they are trying to deliver. For my use case or this one for streaming, a 2 minute cache seems awfully low though.