I’ve used Plex for several years and only had 1 or 2 out of over 500 movies not discover cover art for the movie. All of my movies are between 1930’s and 1970’s. Recently I have added about 10 movies and 4 of them did not find an image for the cover art.
I know there is a way to attach my own image but I wondered why suddenly so many don’t seem to be found. Is there a way to get Plex to find them?
Thank you,
Linda
These are the movies that didn’t find covers:
Story of GI Joe ,1945
Love is a Ball, 1963
The Redhead and the Cowboy, 1951 (it didn’t find anything for this movie)
Go West Young Lady, 1941
The Disappearance of Flight 412, 1974
The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)
(No Poster for this movie)
Go West Young Lady (1941)
(No Poster for this movie)
The Disappearance of Flight 412 (1974)
(No Poster for this movie)
Note:
Plex Movie or TMDB as your primary agent - both pull images from TMDB - no images come from IMDB (as I understand it). No image at TMDB means no image to download. If there is an image at IMDB - copy it’s URL (right click on it) and paste it in the edit window in the space provided - problem solved.
If you’d like to join the ranks of
The Few
The Proud
The Wackjobs
You can help out at TMDB by becoming a contributing member (register with a valid email address) and then add a poster image where there is none - or you can find one on google and toss it in by Edit and here are the details:
I did have a problem with the way I titled the GI Joe movie but the others I do not.
I tried copying the url into the edit/poster window but it just created a black box. So I downloaded the cover and then used drag and drop.
If I move Plex to another computer in the future will it bring those covers that I put in myself to the new system? I just installed Plex on a new pc and I used the Plex directions for that (where you copy the folders from the old pc to the new one after installing). It worked great!
If you follow steps to copy this exact installation to another machine - yes.
You did it once already.
Personally, if I was doing that I’d want a brand new install and Plexiverse build on the new machine. I use Filebot so my file names are ALWAYS picture perfect and of the 10s of thousands of items in my world? I’ll have to deal with very few by hand.
You right click the ‘internet image’ and select:
Copy Image Address
then you can paste that into the same area you dragged and dropped to, but I have seen some instances where that didn’t work, ‘Save Image As’ being the last and most successful method - 'cause it always works. <—albeit with a sane name change from that 400 character crypto-thing-name they have.
Then you must use MP4 files
You must move/leave Local Media Assets in the top most slot
and THAT will make your life miserable when every non-curated MP4 in your Plexiverse with a bogus embedded Title Field refuses to match.
No, Dear Friends, the best metadata to have in Video Files is:
NONE!
Not sure what you are talking about…maybe I am misunderstanding. I use all sorts of file types and my Local Media Assets agent is a ways down the list.
The embedded metadata you’re putting in files other than MP4s is invisible to Plex.
Plex can only read and react to metadata in MP4 files, and then only if LMA is in the top slot and that, for the overwhelming majority of Plex Users - is a bad idea.
I am always on a ‘Metadata Search and Destroy Mission’ - 'cause I don’t want anything to interfere with the perfect File Name and Structure Filebot provides. That’s what Plex really wants so that’s what I give it.
Internal Metadata is for Music Files.
No other media needs any.
