# custom library icons

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [September 28, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686 "2014-09-28T07:22:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![stevecrox](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/stevecrox/32/7484_2.png) [@stevecrox](https://forums.plex.tv/u/stevecrox)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 7:22am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/1 "2014-09-28T07:22:51Z")

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I have seen the guides on how to hack plex to insert your own icons. I would like the ability to add them from the web interface.  
  
  
I would settle for a range of TV show/films/music etc… Icons

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**Author:** ![mtbrgeek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mtbrgeek/32/85935_2.png) [@mtbrgeek](https://forums.plex.tv/u/mtbrgeek)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/2 "2014-09-28T20:56:23Z")

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i agree

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**Author:** ![Mellowlynx](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/mellowlynx/32/189971_2.png) [@Mellowlynx](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Mellowlynx)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/3 "2014-09-29T15:00:59Z")

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+1

I saw a image of it in someones forum signature yesterday and loved it.

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**Author:** ![anon18523487](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@anon18523487](https://forums.plex.tv/u/anon18523487)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/4 "2014-09-29T19:52:25Z")

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Since it is pretty easy to do manually outside of the program versus the time it would take to implement this in the WebApp, I don't know how much weight the developers put into considering this one. &nbsp;This has been asked for a long time now.

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**Author:** ![Nights0ng](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/nights0ng/32/11035_2.png) [@Nights0ng](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Nights0ng)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/5 "2014-09-29T19:59:36Z")

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Ability to change library backgrounds that show up in PHT (I'm guessing other places as well) would be nice as well, I tried doing this manually and had no luck unlike the library icons.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2021, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/6 "2021-04-20T23:39:49Z")

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Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate

> [@Allow libraries to have custom icons](https://forums.plex.tv/t/allow-libraries-to-have-custom-icons/693495):
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> I am entirely aware this has been suggested before but all the other topics on it are closed and had little to no response from the Plex team. It appears that it was possible before but was disabled at some point. While I can see how this might be some amount of effort on the Plex teams behalf, could you know write it in a way that it falls back to the default icons on a device that hasn’t implemented the feature and show the custom icons on devices that do? I have 4 libraries that use the TV …

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/custom-library-icons/77686/7 "2021-06-10T00:46:31Z")

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