How to eliminate “imported” posters?

I have a great many media files, none of which had any images in the TAG data. However, the Plex system seems intent upon matching up files with images sourced from who know where. Most of the time they are not the right images.

Is there any way to set Plex such that it will never import these images?

I am thinking about creating my own images to serve as “posters.” They would be very plain JPG images (essentially “tiles” in which the color varies by media type, coupled with simple text, such as “Moody Blues”, or “Beethoven S3”. I would create them in PowerPoint, then export the “tiles” as image files.

How do I link these tiles up with the media files? Can I create “tiles” that would be used only at the “folder” (e.g., “Classical Music” and “subfolder levels” (e.g., “Beethoven” and then “Beethoven S3” but not for the individual tracks.

Am I making sense? Since Plex will never find suitable poster images for everything, I would much prefer that Plex-found “posters” not be used at all.

Please advise. Thank you.

Have a look at these following pages to read up on how Plex reads the metadata.

https://support.plex.tv/articles/200241558-agents/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220677-local-media-assets-movies/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220717-local-media-assets-tv-shows/

If you want Plex to read your own metadata for media, you need to set the agent to “Local Media Assets” in settings. Make sure the images being used are set to the naming standards as posted in the links above.

Your instructions are correct, but there seems to be a problem currently where Plex, carefully configured to use local metadata and images, is failing to do so. I’m having trouble getting confirmation that someone is looking at this.

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