Disable Logos

[dokuro]

I know, I know… I’ll be in the minority so logo fanboys just move on but logos are not for me and I’d much rather have a clean poster and background setup. I’ve little confidence that plex will allow us to toggle these off so I’ve been looking at how to disable/remove these.

So far the best approach I’ve come up with is to remove clearLogos directly off the plex server from within the metadata bundle using a hammer. Basically, something like this …

find /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Metadata -type d -name 'clearLogos' -exec rm -rf {} ';'

… which does work. I know they will come back if a metadata refresh happens, I’ve that disabled so I control when that happens and could delete them again when I want to refresh the metadata.

Anyhow, is there is a better way to do this ? Maybe there is a way with the api to lock clearlogos as empty …

[pshanew]

I think it would be a completely reasonable request for clear logos to be a toggle-able (togglable?) option based on user preferences. They’re nice for some, but I personally don’t see the need for them in my use case.

I’m curious. When you delete them as outlined above, what do the new experience apps show in their place? Just the “normal” text titles?

[dokuro]

@pshanew

Just the “normal” text titles?

Yes, normal text, here is an example …

[pshanew]

Thanks, I might give this a try on one of my servers. If I do, I’ll report back as to whether a metadata refresh regenerates the clear logos as I don’t intend to turn off automatic metadata refreshing.

[dokuro]

@pshanew

’ll report back as to whether a metadata refresh regenerates the clear logos

It does, I already checked

[pshanew]

@dokuro

It does, I already checked

Ah, sorry, I misinterpreted your earlier comment .

[Yaracuy]

There is a column in the library.db in the table metadata_items, user_clear_logo_url, with values like metadata://clearLogos/tv.plex.agents.movie_df73790801a85cc05c46f0d747bbcbbf5ea01a3e

So you’d probably need to whack this value too. But I’m afraid it will get populated again on refreshing metadata.

A toggle would be the best solution, though.

[dokuro]

That should work. Taking a quick look, if I set user_clear_logo_url to blank …

UPDATE metadata_items SET user_clear_logo_url = '' WHERE user_clear_logo_url GLOB 'metadata://clearLogos*';

then as an extra I could maybe lock that field by also setting user_fields to lockedFields=x where x is the field for logos that would have me golden. That would save future metadata refreshes.

Let me figure what x is