Force search for artwork to a specific folder

General Discussions
1

Hi, is there a way to make Plex search in a specific folder for posters? In _thumbs folder in this case.

C:/Movies
----_thumbs
--------Movie1.jpg
--------Movie2.jpg
----Movie1.mkv
----Movie2.mkv

Thank you,

2

No, that’s not supported.
Posters should be stored right alongside the main movie, e.g.

Movies
  Movie1.mkv
  Movie1.jpg

  Movie 2
    Movie 2.mkv
    poster.jpg

4

I see. I’m willing to develop a plugin for this specific feature. Would that be an option?

5

I suppose it might be. Just keep an eye on some of the other threads related to 3rd party supplementary agents… if I remember correctly there’s been some hurdles to overcome with the recently released new Plex Movie scanner/agent.

Then again… why the effort? :wink:

6

Well, cleanliness is next to godliness with custom libraries. Having thumbnails gathered in the same folder seems like a nice way to go. Plus an override to GetPoster should do the trick. How hard could that be? Any plugin examples to chew on somewhere?