Art/Posters for "By Folder" View

Feature Suggestions
1

Hello all,

 

I love the look and feel of Plex - thanks for making such a wonderful UI for media playback!

 

However, there is one thing which is somewhat lacking from my perspective.  "By Folder" view doesn't show any Art (poster, thumbnail etc..) until you are inside the folder holding the media file in question.

 

I store media by type and genre. Eg.:

 

Movies

-->Action

---->Film01

---->Film02

-->Comedy

---->Film01

-->Drama

---->Film01

---->Film02

---->Film03

etc..

 

TV

-->Show01

---->Season01

---->Season02

-->Show02

---->Season01

---->Season02

---->Season03

etc..

 

For TV shows, it doesn't matter as much as all of my TV shows are stored in a common folder.  Movies are different however as I have them categorized by genre, and due to the sheer volume of them, it is often great to be able to filter the view based on how I have defined the genre in the above file structure.

 

I know that library purists will say that I should just use Plex's built in filtering, but it is often much quicker for me to logically find something if I can simply browse the folder structure.  It would be a much more attractive experience if the folders could display some art - even if it was manually done by placing a folder.jpg file in the folder as was done previously with XBMC and other similar projects.

 

Truth be told, I already do have artwork stored in the movie folders as I still make use of other players like XBMC.

 

Is displaying art at the "By Folder" view at all a possibility?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

-- ST

 

(I originally posted something similar to this in another thread - I don't mean to double-post, but I didn't notice a feature voting area until after I had already searched the forum - sorry if this duplication is unwelcome!)

2

I agree - I think something like this would be very bennifical. I store many turoials that have a description in the file name and I think being able to Place Posters for each folder within plex would look more appealing than just a default image.

3

I agree. I have photo and home movie libraries organized by folder. I browse them both by folder. The photo library shows a thumbnail of one of the pictures contained in that folder. It would be great if video folder view did the same thing. It would give the interface a consistent look and feel. Right now it looks like the video folder view is "unfinished"

4

I’ll add my voice to this request too.

5

There is an existing request for this. Rather than spreading the votes across several threads, the best thing to do is to add your vote to that thread by clicking ‘Like’ on the first message in the thread.

In fact, there are a few open threads with the same request. The one above has the most votes, and Ninjas have been directing people to it.

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