Perhaps this was asked already - where did my background art go? Certain things in music collection get special treatment with a custom background - gone or it is not showing starting with server 1.4.3.3433 via my web browser.
Also, jury is out for me but why on albums with multiple CDs does it not show “Disk 1”, “Disk 2” etc anymore? I liked it on a multi-CD release where it showed how many CDs were in that album.
Thanks,
In the case of music libraries, Artist Backgournds are no longer backgrounds. Instead, they’re referred to as “Artwork” and you can toggle them to appear/disappear by clicking the “Show Artwork” icon found in the upper righ-hand corner of the PFW interface, immediately to the right of the player controls. I’ll leave it for you to decide whether this change is an improvement, or not.
I agree with your sentiments regarding multi-disc albums. Why they removed certain features/asthetics is beyond me.
Update Regarding Backgrounds: PLEX for Roku no longer uses user defined background images (i.e. Artist-Background.jpg) during playback. Instead, it’s using the artist thumbnail (i.e. Artist-Poster.jpg). I’m going to pull my freaking hair out. This is unbelievable. Talk about poor and untested quality control.
The question of multi-disc CDs not having ‘Disc 1’ headings is a known issue. See this post for a statement from a Plex employee.
@srewobwj said:
In the case of music libraries, Artist Backgournds are no longer backgrounds. Instead, they’re referred to as “Artwork” and you can toggle them to appear/disappear by clicking the “Show Artwork” icon found in the upper righ-hand corner of the PFW interface, immediately to the right of the player controls. I’ll leave it for you to decide whether this change is an improvement, or not.
Thank you much, found the button. At least that enables a favorite feature, certain albums I put considerable effort to put in a background picture. Good to know this option is still here.
This is a horrible decision. You turn on the art (which I spent hours obtaining for many artists) and the useful information disappears below the screen.
What the f*** are you thinking Plex team???
Yeah, this is a really bad idea and a horrible change. You think the design team could stop making changes like these without even polling the users. They’re spending 100s or 1000s of man-hours to change stuff nobody but the the software engineers want changed. Stupid and wasteful. If a change is required to enable some other feature or to eliminate a problem, they should inform us. Absent any explanation, this change was arbitrary.
If they keep wasting money making things less attractive and useful, they’ll work their way out of business.
Clearly, the company management has lost sight of the objective: satisfying the consumers to grow their business, and now are just servicing their own whims.
