So now with the release of the Preview for the Roku app alongside the android mobile app there is going to be a problem with how background images will be handled. If you choose a 16:9 ratio image the android app will crop and look incorrect while the roku will look great. 16:9 ratio Roku [PXL_2…

The server will have another option to use/upload square backgrounds that are used on phones. I don’t have an ETA when that will be available. Being able to upload logos will likely happen about the same time.

Having the mobile background separate from the “normal” background is the best news I’ve seen in awhile.

Absolutely. And logos too. As long as they can be used as local assets rather than choosing them with the Web UI. It’s gonna be great :+1:

Separate square backgrounds… What a terrible idea. So we’re going to have to find (good luck with that!), or create, even more assets, now with an unconventional aspect ratio (which isn’t supported on any major database), only for Plex because they decided to reinvent the wheel alone on their own f…

I’ve been rethinking this and @nolankotulan is right. 100%. My reply was rushed in the heat of the moment. I have 1200+ movies and 180+ TV shows where I have carefully edited the posters and the backgrounds. For the backgrounds, sometimes flipping the canvas horizontally so the motif is right-alig…

[image] Yaracuy: For Plex provided content I don’t think it will be that easy to find square-ish backgrounds Honestly, when I seen the comment on square background a few days ago I could not believe what I was reading. Its like, we are giving you the option to have square background on mobile…

One could argue that some other platforms / apps also use (almost) square backgrounds on mobile. That indeed does exist. The mobile Apple TV app for example even uses vertical ones for most of its hosted content. But there are some huge differences here: The mobile Apple TV app, in fact, does NO…

It would make more sense to just use a normal 16:9 background and put the clear logo over that, maybe offset so it’s only partially overlapping on the bottom. Really the amount of used screen space just for the header on mobile due to the square background seems excessive to begin with. I rarely us…

I do agree with the others in this thread, that it is unfortunate that with the new redesign on the mobile app that if users have picked their posters/background to match. They will need to either ignore the fact that 16/9 ratio images don’t look right in the mobile apps or spend more countless hour…

It is terrifying (yet not surprising) that anyone internally would think this is the solution to an issue you’ve created with awful new app. 16:9 images are standard and the solution is to adjust the UI in the mobile app to accommodate that instead of terrible cropping of carefully curated 16:9 bac…

How are background images going to be handled?

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General support for themes in collections → Theme music for TV & Movie Collections
Option to manage themes via PMS frontend → Managing Theme Music, Posters, and Art with the WebuI and API

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How are background images going to be handled?

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