During the years I have edited all my songs (mp3), one by one, so that the tags and artwork would be perfect. How can I make Plex to just completely forget about anything related with agents, downloading stuff from the internet, matching, etc… (for my music).
I want it to use my tags and only my tags and nothing else than my tags. And I want it to use the embedded artwork of each song.
Is that possible? If so, how?
The best you can do is to configure Plex to prioritize your embedded tags. I don’t think there’s any way to turn the online agents completely off.
@beckfield but this doesn’t quite answer my question. I still don’t know how to make Plex show the embedded artwork of my songs.
If you follow the link I gave you, it shows you how. If Plex is configured according to those instructions, your embedded art should be used. If Plex can’t use your embedded art for some reason, it looks for a local artwork file. If that’s not available, it will look online. That is also mentioned in that post.
Now, there is a problem that I reported last year regarding what Plex does if there are 2 images embedded in my tracks. If that’s the problem you’re seeing, we may both be out of luck.
@alexandernst said:
@beckfield but this doesn’t quite answer my question. I still don’t know how to make Plex show the embedded artwork of my songs.
I just realized in this post you said “… how to make Plex show the embedded artwork…”
As far as I know, the only artwork Plex will show from your metadata is the album cover.
@beckfield said:
If Plex is configured according to those instructions, your embedded art should be used. If Plex can’t use your embedded art for some reason, it looks for a local artwork file.
This order will get reversed, if it not already is.
The reasoning is, that embedded artwork is mostly in low resolution. If you wanted high resolution, you’d have to embed the same big high-res file into all tracks of an album. Especially when we are talking about mp3 files this is insane. It’d increase the memory footprint of an album immensely.
Therefore, if there is one sidecar cover art file, this will take priority.
@OttoKerner said:
@beckfield said:
If Plex is configured according to those instructions, your embedded art should be used. If Plex can’t use your embedded art for some reason, it looks for a local artwork file.This order will get reversed, if it not already is.
The reasoning is, that embedded artwork is mostly in low resolution. If you wanted high resolution, you’d have to embed the same big high-res file into all tracks of an album. Especially when we are talking about mp3 files this is insane. It’d increase the memory footprint of an album immensely.
Therefore, if there is one sidecar cover art file, this will take priority.
Excellent! I’ve often thought it should be that way.
No no no. I don’t want the covers (I mean, those are showing just fine as I set them manually via Plex). I want the actual image of each song. You know, as spotify. I want the images of each song to show while I’m playing that song.
There is no artwork per-song in Plex. There is only one cover art: that for the album.
Will there be at some point? Is there an open feature request for that or maybe anything else I can keep an eye on?
I’m not aware of an existing feature request, but you can search through the Feature Request Forum for yourself. If you don’t find one, feel free to start one. If you’ve never started a feature request before, be sure to read through some of the pinned announcements in the Feature Request Forum before posting.
Bottom Line: The most recent update to the PLEX for Web interface messed up the artwork for several of the albums in my Basic Music library, which is set by default to use embedded tags. Prior to the update, the only thumbnail that appeared when editing the poster for an album was the one that I’d manually ebedded in my MP3s. Now, in many (but not all) cases, the poster editor shows high and low res versions of multiple album covers that have nothing to do with the album, nor which are embedded in my tags. These images are also not present in the folder where the source files reside, so they must have been downloaded or picked up elsewhere by PLEX. This behavior never occured prior to the recent update to PLEX for Web interface. Extremely disappointed.
PS Doing the PLEX dance and retagging these albums has no impact. The album artwork is still messed up, even after the files have been removed from the library, retagged, and added back to the library. If it ain’t broke DON’T fix it. Damn it.
@srewobwj said:
my Basic Music library, which is set by default to use embedded tags.
There is no way to prefer embedded cover art.
What is possible, is to prefer locally available cover art over cover art fetched by other agents (like online sources).
‘Locally available’ means either embedded cover art or ‘sidecar’ graphics files in the album folder.
Recently, the priority was switched so ‘sidecar’ graphics are now used first, before embedded cover art is used.
Your problem comes from ‘sidecar’ cover art graphics files which are usually put into your folders by Windows Media Player.
What makes the issue very annoying, is that Windows Media Player marked these files as ‘hidden’ and ‘system’, so they are not displayed when looking at the folder with a file explorer in its default configuration.
You should go on the hunt and get rid of these (often very low res) pictures.
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1173370/#Comment_1173370
