Server Version#: 1.30.1.6562
Player Version#: 9.23.0
Hi,
today, the Google Play Store updated my Plex App to the most recent version (9.23.0) and when I opened it a few minutes ago, I thought the media scanner went haywire since all, I mean literally every single thumbnail, was seemingly lost.
For every video I have (that is normal videos, like kurzgesagt videos, not movies), there is a .jpg stored along side it which the media scanner correctly interprets as thumbnail, the so called “Poster”. And this has worked pretty much flawlessly since I started using Plex.
It still works in the current server version, as the Web App still displays the correct thumbnail. It’s just the Android app which now displays the “Background” image instead.
This seems to only affect the media type “Other videos”.
I tested my “Movies” library (=library type) as well just to check, but no, it was all good there. I did not test the TV shows or Photos library types
I believe this is a bug (as afaik all the other Plex Players continue to use the Poster-image and it only affects a single library type) that is client side only, since nothing has changed server side for a very long time.
If the old Plex server version sounds suspicious, my other remote Plexserver exhibits the exact same problem and is on ver. 1.32.1.6999.
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Long story short, here are two images showing the issue:
Good /\
Not good \/
If there is a setting for that, I’m sorry to report this as a bug and would be very happy if someone told where that setting is. If this is a bug, I would be very happy if this one gets fixed⠀:)
Super4Jet
