Hello,
While playing mp3 file on plex or plexamp is there a way to display cover art (image) that’s embedded in mp3 id3 tag instead of cover.jpg?
I am looking for this feature because most of the music that I listen to are custom made compilation albums, and each and every mp3 file in these albums has it’s own album art.
Thanks!
You should be able to enable the „Prefer local metadata“ option in the advanced tab when editing your library. I’m not sure if this will only apply to newly added files or if refreshing metadata will pick embedded artwork up.
If I understood your question correctly, you want Plex to show the embedded image in each track of your custom compilation album and all of these images are different. I don’t think you can do that, even if you were to delete the “cover.jpg” file and have the “prefer local metadata” option enabled. Plex will pick one image (usually from the first track) and use that one for all of the others.
Pretty sure in Plex you can only manage cover art for an album, you cannot change the cover art for the individual tracks within that album.
@ leelynds
That’s exactly what happens when I delete cover.jpg. Plexamp shows image from the first mp3 file.
Why can’t plex give us an option of displaying image from the mp3 file? It should not be hard to implement/code. Other players like VLC do it by default.
Plex only stores one cover art per album.
That’s unfortunate.
Are there plans for making this a feature in future releases? All the plexamp will need to do is read the image from the mp3 file (it’s id3 tag). That won’t be too hard to implement, right?
There’s a suggestion but it doesn’t seem to be particularly popular.
I’ve stopped guessing about how hard or simple implementations are. You rarely see all implications of a change from the outside. For all we know it has implications on many layers (server needs to support per-track artwork handling, required database and metadata storage changes, client support…) – so it’s probably more complex than you anticipate it to be.
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