PLEX is a great tool, and I am thankful for all your good work. I do have a few thoughts.
Since the search engines for media simply do not work well at all . . . and since nearly all my media does not lend itself to these search engines finding relevant “posters”, I am hoping it will be possible to have a setting that disables ALL attempts by the system to use anything other than Personal Media Assets.
Please enable the user to set icons/posters for folders when using the folder system to access media. The plain grey boxes could be put to good use with self-created posters.
The PLEX client used on my Roku system has recently been changed such that it is much easier to just use “folder” access for all media. The PLEX client that I use on my iPad does not work very well. It seems to default to “Grid” access, when I would like to be able to set it so it always uses the “Folder” access system.
I’m not sure you’re actually suggesting specific features?!
1. Disable all matching attempts
From what you describe it appears you have some issues with the naming of your content which prevents Plex from properly matching it (and as a consequence from finding the correct metadata, posters…).
Plex uses files named folder.jpg as movie poster (see https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/#toc-1). If properly applied, you will notice that the movies in the respective folder are being displayed using that poster.
However, Plex has in the past given some strong statements that folder view is considered as kind of a compatibility mode for users who for some reason depend on folder based organization vs. the actually intended/favored metadata based organization (grid view with option to group, filter, sort according to various criteria).
As for the specific request (actually the only specific I could see)… there already exists a redundant one:
Hence… let me move this to a regular discussion area
