SOLVED: Media scan stuck at 96%

[tmsrxzar]

after all that there's few options left ...

maybe piece it together a little at a time; move the last few files it scans in the log out of the library path?
seems possible it's trying to scan a broken file

less likely (but not completely impossible); a weird recursion issue where there's a symlink or mount causing it to loop the scan
(yes i know this sounds ridiculous but i cannot completely rule it out without being at the pc)