How to delete ALL art and posters imported by PLEX

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I am having great difficulty preventing PLEX from searching the internet for art/posters related to my media content. I have selected “Local Media Assets” in ALL libraries and put it first on the list, typically followed by “Personal Media”.

The last time I deleted and re-loaded all my music library, PLEX went out to the internet and found art that it assigned to almost all my music and audiobooks. Unfortunately, I do not like ANY of it, and much of it is wrong.

Is there a way to delete all this junk?

Has it embedded itself in the TAG information of these music files?

Is there a file somewhere on the system that I can delete to get rid of it?

If I delete this Music Library again, then recreate it, what can I do to stop this?

What if I re-load the music file into the re-created Music Library without the media server being connected to the internet? Will that stop it?

Can I replace these lousy images with images of my own? How do I do that?

Please help, this is frustrating me greatly.

JAM

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Have you inspected your media folders for hidden graphics files? (those are often created by Windows Media Player).
They can cause major album art mismatches – if they are in the root folder of your music, they may even appear on all artists and albums.

see How do I remove an incorrect tv show poster

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That sets the order when using a specific agent. When you create a library you still need to choose which agent to use. Recreate your library.

  • create new library
  • select music
  • select the location of your music
  • select basic music library
  • scroll down, find the drop down field for “Agent”
  • select “Personal Media Artist”

Now Plex will not use any info from the internet.

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Rest assured.
Plex does not write/edit/modify any embedded metadata.

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