I’ve recently finished up a project to add album art to all my ripped CDs. All tracks have embedded front cover art work and album directories have either a cover.jpg or a cover.png. When viewing an artists page on the Plex web front end some albums show the correct artwork. (Either from the embedd…

It depends on how you have Plex configured. If your embedded/local tags and cover art are all in good shape, and you want Plex to use them in preference to the online databases, take a look at this How-To . It explains how to make sure Plex prefers your local metadata. It also explains the order o…

I’ve read your How-To and I had everything set correctly. I’m guessing the reason Plex still didn’t show my art is because I needed to do the Plex Dance? And the Plex Dance is necessary because Plex does not read updated metadata after the initial loading of a library?

That is very possibly the reason, and yes, that’s why the Dance is sometimes necessary. Try it with one or two albums before you do your whole library.

HI- I am new to Plex, and trying to understand how ALBUM ART is being determined. I have spent years meticulously tagging my mp3’s for other applications. My file structure is standard, and I have all the artwork for CDs stored locally. In each album directories, I have a mix of files: cover_f.j…

i have also tried poster.jpg and folder.jpg. Any guidance would be appreciated.

After much testing, here is what I believe is happening: If I have “Use embedded tags” checked, the album art will be determined from the embedded art within a song itself… some of the time. I personally have verified this. This would be great if it did this all the time, BUT Plex sometimes pick…

I just read beckfield’s sticky, in which is says that image files in the folder take precedence over embedded images in songs… but which specific filename is you have several image filed?

I’ve found a python configuration file which contains the following: ALBUM_POSTER_FILES = [‘album’,‘poster’,‘default’,‘cover’,‘folder’,‘img_’] My assumption is that these partial filenames are used in some form of REGEX- and the “cover” may be returning more than one match (my directories have …

I’m having an issue with Plex somehow grabbing a photo that I took off of my file server and using it as cover art. The weird thing is I never used this photo for any of my songs ever

Hi gregmez - Can you please list a couple of exact examples of how you have your embedded cover art named.

How does Plex select album art to display

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OttoKerner September 25, 2018, 3:56pm 13

Only the first of these 4 will be considered by Plex.

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How does Plex select album art to display

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