With all of the nice updates that Plexamp is getting, this would be a great addition. Hope to see it soon.
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47 days now since I requested an explanation on why this seemingly simple (and normally basic) function is a complicated request to fill, so I it would be clear that Plex does care about customer concerns, is checking to see them, and prioritizing them based on some sort of scale that includes current customer requests, VS just what will attract new customers. Are we supposed to call or email a link to threads in order for developers to see them? IT’S JUST ARTWORK!
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Hard to not agree with how disappointing this is. Is there anyway to actually contact them with issues?
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It’s difficult to understand why this is not a feature, especially when it seems to have been requested multiple times over the past few years. We can easily change the artwork for albums and set it to whatever we want, but can’t do so for playlists?
+1 to this suggestion
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101 days since request. Still no reply. Still no update. Still trying to service new markets instead of helping customers in ones who have already paid. Please help me utilize Plex to make attractive playlists. NEED CUSTOM ARTWORK OPTION.
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+1, would love this feature too
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Another vote on the stack for this feature
I started using playlists HEAVILY during the pandemic, and I’d REALLY like to be able to create custom covers. These little four-squares are annoying.
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Hear, hear! Super annoying in PlexAmp not to have this.
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229 days …still no indication that Plex dev or admin (or even a mod for that sake) has even seen this request. Every time I update my server I rush to my music playlists to see if I can start using plex for music yet; every time I’m let down.
“This world* is but a canvas to our imagination” - Henry David Thoreau
except in Plex, in Plex you get 4 tiny randomly pre-chosen album covers
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It’s a bit of a pain, but you can definitely add your own playlist poster right now. The key is to use an http post command to the api. Not sure why they don’t have this as something you can just click on, but on Windows 7 (should work for others, I just never upgraded…) here’s how I do it using powershell (though no reason you couldn’t do this using any tool that allows you to issue a POST command):
Basically, you need 4 pieces of information:
- The web address of your server, which is what you see when you use the browser to access plex. For mine, it's: http://192.168.1.104:32400
- The key (id) of the playlist you want to add the artwork for. To get this, click on the playlist and look at the address that comes up in the browser. Here's what I get:
That's a big mess, but all you need is the number right after the "playslists%2F" part and before the "&" which, in this case, would be 11060http://192.168.1.104:32400/web/index.html#!/server/359hg65aad6077865e4e9dd9c95a04d5c4d3b497d/playlist?key=%2Fplaylists%2F11060&context=library%3Acontent.playlists.video~0~0 - The web address of the image, in URL encoded format:
- Find the image on the web (or upload it, if you're so inclined) and get the address of the just the image (usually I used the "Open image in a new tab" option from right-clicking in Firefox which gives me the image, by itself, on a webpage and the address is what I need).
- Copy that address into a URL encoder, such as: https://www.urlencoder.org/ click the "encode" option and copy the output.
- For illustrative purposes, I used the image from the beginning of this thread.
- A valid X-Plex-Token, which is easy to find and you can learn how to find it in this plex support article: https://support.plex.tv/articles/204059436-finding-an-authentication-token-x-plex-token/ For me, wpfDWjnyDaBbsSdyJPkS was the token.
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ‘SERVERADDRESS/library/metadata/PLAYLISTID/posters?url=URLADDRESS&X-Plex-Token=XPLEXTOKEN’ -Method POST
But replace the THINGS with the actual information you obtained. For me, this worked (no line breaks):
| Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'http://192.168.1.104:32400/library/metadata/11060/posters?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws1.discourse-cdn.com%2Fplex%2Foptimized%2F3X%2Fe%2Fa%2Fea238e6dd9b2b31707f8d354321fff090a8f8045_2_690x690.png&X-Plex-Token=wpfDWjnyDaBbsSdyJPkS' -Method POST |
Be aware that you get a square crop of the image, which appears to be centered on the image and of the size of the shorter of the two rectangular dimensions of the image.
Not sure what all could go wrong, but if you try it, do so at your own risk. It works great for me.
All that being said, and even though I have customized the artwork of all my playlists, I do support making this a simple feature.
(note, I did modify a few bits that might have had personal identifiable data, fear not)
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Damn, this actually worked first time (windows 10 as well)! Thank you so much!
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Awesome. Writing it all out makes it sound a lot more complicated than it is. Once you do it, though, it’s easy to do for all your playlists.
Thank you for this great knowledge!!
I used this method and works just perfectly. At the beginning is a little tedious but once you get used it becomes more mechanical. All of my playlists have now covers, I’ve been waiting literally years for this. So thank you very, very much! However i have a small question, just out of curiosity. My playlists show covers everywhere, laptop, TV and even in Plexamp. The weird thing is that the covers don’t show up exclusively in the Plex iOS app. It still shows the traditional 4 album covers for playlists. Not a big problem at all, i just wonder why this happens exclusively the iOS app?
Hmmm. I don’t have an answer. I went ahead and installed plex fresh on an ipad and sure enough the 4-unit poster, not the custom one, appeared for each playlist. So my two theories are that (1) the plex database has more than one place it references the poster, and the little trick above only changes one of them or (2) the ios device is making the 4-unit posters on the fly. If it’s #2 we’re out of luck. I’ll dig into the database (whose structure I don’t understand very well), but I’m not hopeful. Maybe someone else has a solution or some insight.
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Good news for everybody who’s been waiting for this feature…
Plex Web 4.62.1 supports changing the poster of playlists.
Keep in mind… in order to use this feature you need to use the hosted version of Plex Web (https://app.plex.tv/desktop) until the new version is also included in Plex for Mac/Windows and the bundled alongside your PMS.
Thank you Plex!!! 
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Just posted about it in the Labs forum. thanks to one and all for a early Xmas gift.
OMG I can’t believe that they did it. I really thought this was going to be one of those things that was never added. Thanks Plex Devs!!
