Sorting takes very long time.

[gitttt54]

Hello,

I have a lot of collections like this:

  'Golden Globe-Winning':
    sort_title: +++03_1_Golden Globe-Winning
    imdb_list: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?groups=golden_globe_winner&view=simple&sort=release_date,desc
    collection_mode: hide
    collection_order: release.desc (as well as: collection_order: audience_rating.desc)
    sync_mode: sync

Everytime, I run PMM (of course, when new movies are added to Plex and PMM adds them to the collections),
I got entlessly lines of sorting information in the log, i.e.:

[2022-09-23 13:44:59,411] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Der lange Tod des Stuntman Cameron (1980) after Eine ganz normale Familie (1980)                                                                                                                |
[2022-09-23 13:45:02,165] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Fame - Der Weg zum Ruhm (1980) after Der lange Tod des Stuntman Cameron (1980)                                                                                                                  |
[2022-09-23 13:45:04,811] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Nashville Lady (1980) after Fame - Der Weg zum Ruhm (1980)                                                                                                                                      |
[2022-09-23 13:45:07,561] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Kramer gegen Kramer (1979) after Nashville Lady (1980)                                                                                                                                          |
[2022-09-23 13:45:10,243] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Im Westen nichts Neues (1979) after Kramer gegen Kramer (1979)                                                                                                                                  |
[2022-09-23 13:45:12,943] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Tess (1979) after Im Westen nichts Neues (1979)                                                                                                                                                 |
[2022-09-23 13:45:15,543] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Apocalypse Now (1979) after Tess (1979)                                                                                                                                                         |
[2022-09-23 13:45:18,242] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Vier irre Typen – Wir schaffen alle, uns schafft keiner (1979) after Apocalypse Now (1979)                                                                                                      |
[2022-09-23 13:45:20,916] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Der Champ (1979) after Vier irre Typen – Wir schaffen alle, uns schafft keiner (1979)                                                                                                           |
[2022-09-23 13:45:23,638] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Die durch die Hölle gehen (1979) after Der Champ (1979)                                                                                                                                         |
[2022-09-23 13:45:26,387] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Ein Käfig voller Narren (1978) after Die durch die Hölle gehen (1979)                                                                                                                           |
[2022-09-23 13:45:29,138] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving Herbstsonate (1978) after Ein Käfig voller Narren (1978)                                                                                                                                        |
[2022-09-23 13:45:31,813] [builder.py:2615]           [INFO]     | Moving 12 Uhr nachts - Midnight Express (1978) after Herbstsonate (1978)                                                                                                                               |                                                                                                                              

Because those Collections are very large (i.E. > 300-1000 movies) the "Collection Run Time" takes veeeery long.

[2022-09-23 13:45:45,103] [plex_meta_manager.py:709]  [INFO]     |========================================================================================================================================================================================================|
[2022-09-23 13:45:45,105] [plex_meta_manager.py:709]  [INFO]     |                                                                                Finished Golden Globe-Winning Collection                                                                                |
[2022-09-23 13:45:45,108] [plex_meta_manager.py:709]  [INFO]     |                                                                                      Collection Run Time: 0:24:34                                                                                      |
[2022-09-23 13:45:45,111] [plex_meta_manager.py:709]  [INFO]     |========================================================================================================================================================================================================|

I have questions:

This is out of curiosity: Why does the sorting progress takes so long? I got Collection Run Times up to 40 minutes, and there are a lot of large-scale collections.vit seems to me, PMM is making a connection to Plex for every re-sort. The sorting bloats the complete running time to 8 hours or something. I got the impression, it will be much faster to remove the collection(s) in advance and then let PMM create it new.

How can I fasten up this progress? (without truncating the collections)

Thank you very much.

[meisnate12]

moving each every item takes a call to your plex so that can be a lot on some machines especially if its a large collection.
My Suggestion would be to make it a smart_label collection and the sort will be handled by plex's filter system in real time

[gitttt54]

Thanks for the great hint! I searched the wiki for such info (detailed difference between smart and normal playlist), but have not found such a nice hit !