There is an annoying inconsistency in how the cover art is handled with Movies and Series in regards to the Watchlist, I don’t know if it’s by design or if it’s just an oversight?
If I change the cover art on a movie (or show) in my library to the one I want, that same movie (or show) will still be shown with the automatically chosen covert art in my Watchlist. This is very confusing and annoying, is there a setting that I have missed or something?
You could have several servers, each with different artwork selected. Even if you only have one own server, you could have several libraries containing different editions of the same movie, with different artwork.
Which artwork should be used? But the question is moot anyway.
The watch list doesn’t live on your server. It is global in your account.
As such, it uses the artwork that is default in Plex’s global metadata cache. Usually the same that can also be seen on https://watch.plex.tv
Ahh, that explains why it’s so confusing. I guess I’ll have to live with different artwork for now.
I guess this next question is a little bit off topic and I can see why it is the way it is.
I’ve kept some kind of order in my library by just going into, for example, movies and checking the duplicates filter to see if something has been added twice.
Now I have recently started to use the edition setting and when I have more than one edition of a movie, I cannot do that anymore since they are not “duplicates” per se.
It would be nice to have a filter that would show duplicates with different editions as well so that I can choose which version to keep.
Is there any way to achieve this or can it be added to a wishlist?
There is only the “edition” filter, but it’s not showing all edition at once.
For curation related things where you’d want to see many different technical details about your media, I recommend to use the Export module of WebTools NG
Then you can open the CSV file in a spreadsheet app and filter and sort to your heart’s content.
